Client Onboarding Specialist
Empower
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- The Strategic Sourcing Specialist is responsible for reducing the overall cost of externally purchased materials, goods and services while maintaining or improving quality and service delivery using the strategic sourcing process to identify and eliminate waste and inefficiencies upstream and downstream in the supply chain for one or more spend categories or subcategories. This role is also responsible in assisting category management for assigned categories or subcategories.
- Main duties will be pulling reporting and analyzing risks and opportunities to save money
- Be able to communicate with all types of people, internal and external
- Be able to take direction and create projects with what you see
- Assist internal customers with problems, escalations, etc.
- Identify new opportunities to further our category in the space
- In-depth knowledge of the company's primary businesses as they relate to the categories assigned.
- Analyze and understand the company's historical spending patterns for assigned spend categories or subcategories
- Focus on retail fuel cards, vendor reltionships and program advancement in addition to managing reporting to mitigate risks and fraud.
- Analyze and understand the market for potential solutions to satisfy the requirements identified
- Develop sourcing strategies and tactics based on the empirical results of the requirements and market analysis, for low to medium complexity sourcing events, that will result in the best overall value and TCO for the company
- Present sourcing strategy and tactics recommendations to supply chain leadership, and key stakeholders
- Execute the sourcing strategy and tactics to select the source. This may include: development of RFPs, use of eSourcing tools, bid evaluations, supplier evaluation, development of negotiation strategy, negotiation documents, supplier performance metrics, and contracts.
- Present results of the source selection process to supply chain leadership and key stakeholders
- Develop a detailed implementation plan that includes: the transition process and timing, communication plan identifying purpose, target audiences, key messages, frequency, duration, delivery medium(s), responsibilities, schedule, program utilization and user satisfaction metrics
- Develop and document savings calculations and any other impact metrics
- Determine reporting frequency and report savings
- Ongoing management of suppliers in assigned spend categories
- Ongoing collaboration with suppliers and internal users to continuously improve the supply chain (up and down stream)
- Ongoing contract management, program utilization tracking and reporting, internal requirements monitoring and market dynamics monitoring
Requirements
- Must live and work in the US.
- Education: Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Business or a technical field, or in lieu of, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant experience.
- Experience: Three (3) years experience in a supply chain related position with category spend responsibility of $10M or greater (in addition to education requirement).
- Strong Preference for Intermediate Excel Skills and great communication skills
- Must be a customer-focused change agent with demonstrated collaboration, communication, influencing and organization management/development skills
- Must demonstrate good understanding of Emotionally Intelligent approaches in persuading others to understand your and the department's position on matters.
- Possess environmental and sustainability experience
- Must be a team player who can work within a matrix organization to achieve results
- Demonstrated ability to develop and build strong relationships and facilitate changes in systems and processes to support internal and external customers; has quickly evaluated a complex system and identified problems and potential solutions
- Ability to use software and information technology to more effectively manage and grow the function
- Experienced in articulating the business and product strategies emphasizing the strategic importance of the various products, systems and services
- Demonstrated strong strategic thinking and ability to execute and implement
- Demonstrated ability to partner and build relationships in diverse businesses
- Demonstrated ability to successfully lead cross-functional teams to results
- Possess strong financial acumen and operational expertise
