Procurement

• Review Product and Service Orders for processing
• Daily Order Monitoring and Auditing
• Recommend solutions to existing processes to reduce waste
• Work in Tandem with other team members and support ongoing projects
• Assist internal teams with specific order requests in a timely manner
• Develop and Grow Rapport with New and Existing Vendors
• Monitoring group email to respond to requests and problems
• Maintain and update existing purchasing reports
• Willingness to be available for Quarterly company and vendor closes (adjusted schedule or overtime for the day, roughly 6 times a year)

Purchasing Assistant – IT Environment

• Lead a team of sourcing managers for an aerospace and defense client
• Work directly with Sourcing & Procurement leadership, Account leadership, and Clients to manage expectations and deliver strategic sourcing solutions
• Drive program implementation and monitor success, ensuring all accounts meet KPI and goals set by Sourcing & Procurement and Client
• Oversee assigned portfolio compliance and controls, develop new and innovative sourcing strategies, and identify opportunities for improvement
• Build strong cross-functional relationships and proactively manage internal and external expectations by understanding business needs and priorities
• Ensure contracting and procurement standards, policies, and procedures are maintained and followed throughout the portfolio of managed accounts
• Partner with internal operations teams such as JLL Facility Management and Project Management teams to drive immediate and sustained client benefits
• Establish relationships with key stakeholders, including Corporate Legal and Risk Management, to ensure contractual compliance and proper approval processes

IFM Sourcing Lead

• Conduct supplier evaluations and performance monitoring to ensure quality and reliability
• Manage all pre-award and post-award subcontract activities, including onboarding suppliers, drafting RFPs and RFQs, analyzing bids and conducting negotiations
• Complete compliant purchase order/subcontract packages meeting FAR/DFAR requirements
• Manage subcontract performance and closing out subcontracts
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to finalize Statements of Work (SOWs) and manage supplier performance
• Ensure compliance with public laws, company policies, import/export regulations, and procurement integrity
• Continuously refine processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs

Procurement Analyst

• Supports the preparation and tracking of site agreements.
• Monitors Progress of contract negotiation and execution and providers regular updates to all stakeholders
• Creates effective partnerships with vendors to cultivate and support long term relationships
• If applicable, negotiation of Clinical Trial Agreements and site budgets with US and Canadian sites
• Oversight of third-party negotiations of global Clinical Trial Agreements / Site Budgets
• Assists with vendor governance activities as needed
• Partners with vendors and internal stakeholders to identify, manage, escalate and resolve issues related to vendor performance
• Maintenance of Clinical Outsourcing team Outsourcing Plans, Timelines and Processes
• Effectively communicates, develops and cultivates operationally excellent internal cross-departmental and external vendor relationships to enable advancement of clinical development programs
• Negotiates change orders and ensures vendors adhere to contract terms.
• Assists with the generation of Request for Information (RFIs), Request for Proposal (RFPs), and assists Clinical Operations, Biometrics or Clinical Development with the service provider selection process including bid comparison analysis, bid defense coordination and leadership of proposal review meetings
• Oversight and execution of contract lifecycle management for assigned clinical studies, vendors and/or program(s)
• Supports the identification, development, improvement and implementation of processes and tools related to outsourcing activities
• Key contributing member of the Clinical Outsourcing team

Senior Outsourcing Associate, Clinical Outsourcing

• Guide and influence business and senior leadership through key strategic projects and procurement strategy, focusing on critical vendor management, integration, and informed purchase guidance aligned to Zendesk growth and partner vision.
• Develop, maintain, and validate accurate forecasts for usage, licenses, and capacity for key contracts in collaboration with Engineering, IT, and business units to gather data and identify trends or potential risks to inform contract negotiations and prevent over-commitment or unnecessary costs.
• Lead sourcing strategy, complex negotiations, and vendor diversification for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Model (LLM) providers.
• Analyze and optimize AI/LLM consumption, including token usage and capacity planning, to inform contract negotiations and mitigate financial risk.
• Lead end-to-end sourcing execution, including market research, RFx strategy development, and acting as an escalation point for contract negotiations partnering with Legal, Security, and IT.
• Support spend management projects focused on savings, process efficiency, and risk reduction, including total cost of ownership evaluations and pricing audits.
• Implement and manage a multi-vendor LLM ecosystem strategy to ensure diversification, cost efficiency, and performance optimization.
• Drive commercial leverage by maintaining commitment discipline and pursuing flexible renewal cycles with major LLM providers to mitigate market volatility and pricing shifts.
• Collaborate with Engineering and IT to manage the governance layer for internal AI productivity tooling to track seat vs. consumption costs and align model spend with security and legal approvals.

Manager – Strategic Sourcing, Software and Engineering

• The Procurement Specialist is responsible for managing the enterprise Purchasing Card (P-Card) Program and executing procurement activities for moderate to high complexity goods and services.
• This role supports business units across the organization, with a primary focus on IT-related purchases, while ensuring strong supplier management, data integrity, and compliance with procurement policies.
• This position requires the ability to translate business requirements into sourcing solutions, negotiate pricing, mitigate risk, and deliver the best value.
• The role combines transactional procurement execution with analytical problem solving, supplier coordination, and cross-functional collaboration.
• The Procurement Specialist operates with moderate independence, exercises judgment within established guidelines, and contributes to continuous improvement of procurement processes and systems.

Procurement Specialist

• Design and implement comprehensive category strategies for raw materials, composites, or the standard hardware category to mitigate supply chain risk, ensure affordability, and align with the Organization and Program objectives.
• Prepare Procurement Review Board (PRB) packages, competitive and sole source bid packages, conduct bidders conferences, analyze and evaluate proposals, perform price/cost analyses, negotiate contract provisions, select or recommend awards, and administers resulting contracts.
• Monitor commodity indices and leverage market trends to inform sourcing decisions
• Conduct market analyses, total-cost-of-ownership studies, and demand forecasts to shape long-term sourcing roadmaps.
• Apply standard Aerospace & Defense purchasing / procurement methodology to spend categories to achieve organizational objectives, best value for the enterprise, and achievement of target return on investments (ROI).
• Support sector initiatives/ special projects as required
• Establish vendor managed inventory (VMI) agreements, Right-to-Buy Agreements, long-term agreements, strategic agreements, and negotiate favorable terms and conditions with Suppliers.
• Identify supply-chain risks & opportunities and develop mitigation and execution plans to address.
• Manage internal and external relationships and supplier partnerships

Procurement Specialist – Category Management

• Own procurement operations outcomes for assigned hardware business unit teams and serve as their primary Procurement Operations DRI.
• Redesign workflows, intake paths, routing logic, and operating rhythms so hardware procurement operations can scale without linear headcount growth.
• Lead hardware and goods procurement operations from request intake through PO creation, PO maintenance, supplier coordination, receiving readiness, and invoice-readiness handoffs.
• Drive alignment with hardware stakeholders to clarify requirements, resolve blockers, and keep procurement activity moving with the right level of control.
• Ensure requests and POs are complete, policy-aligned, audit-ready, and supported by clean operational data.
• Identify and resolve issues related to supplier setup, supplier requirements, PO structure, receiving, documentation, approvals, and downstream invoice matching.
• Balance urgent business needs with procurement controls, approval requirements, exception paths, and auditability.
• Work closely with Procurement subject area owners as a team to standardize workflows, intake requirements, operating rhythms, and metrics where practical.
• Identify repeatable work patterns, define system and process requirements, and help build scalable workflows, automations, controls, and reporting for assigned hardware business units.
• Build operating leverage through practical documentation, SOPs, playbooks, dashboards, templates, self-service guidance, intake logic, and AI-enabled workflow improvements that reduce repeated manual follow-up and recurring exceptions.
• Serve as the primary operational escalation point for assigned hardware business units, escalating risks early and driving issues through to clear resolution.

Senior Manager, Procurement Operations – Hardware

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of senior sourcing professionals, setting clear expectations and encouraging growth
• Own end-to-end sourcing strategy for complex software categories, including enterprise agreements, SaaS contracts, licensing negotiations, and renewals
• Guide your team through high-stakes commercial negotiations, structuring deal strategies, evaluating trade-offs, and presenting recommendations to executives
• Partner with engineering, finance, legal, and business leadership to translate collaborator needs into effective sourcing approaches
• Develop and deliver executive-ready analyses and presentations that distill complex deal dynamics into clear narratives
• Build and maintain positive relationships with strategic software suppliers to capture full value while managing risk
• Drive continuous improvement in sourcing processes, tools, and team capabilities
• Support quarterly business reviews and governance discussions with data-driven insights and forward-looking strategies

Senior Procurement Manager – Technology Software

• work as liaison between vendors and Humana supporting internal business areas
• ensure vendors meet contractual obligations as part of the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan program
• build and maintain positive relationships with vendors
• monitor vendor activities: SLA’s, reporting, system reliability, and CMS compliance
• facilitate meetings with vendors to monitor business activity
• conducts quarterly business review meetings to discuss performance
• investigate escalated vendor concerns and collaborate with internal business partners and vendors
• monitor all M3P vendors budget vs actual spend
• address any billing discrepancies
• support system monitoring, file transmissions, member communications, call center inquiries, and production issues resolution
• assist with quality assurance and user acceptance testing
• collaborate with the Risk and Compliance team to ensure vendors are in compliance with CMS regulations

Senior Vendor Management Professional

• Own day-to-day CM relationships across Oura's contract manufacturing base — serving as the primary commercial point of contact for active programs and ensuring Oura is well-positioned at every stage of the engagement.
• Lead commercial negotiations including pricing, MVA structures, NRE, tooling, scrap and rework liability, and capacity commitments — with direct accountability for outcomes.
• Lead RFP and competitive bid processes for EMS/CM awards — defining sourcing strategies, driving strong supplier participation, evaluating proposals, and creating competitive tension to secure the best overall commercial and operational outcome.
• Lead commercial contracting in partnership with Legal for long-term supply and manufacturing agreements — shaping business terms, driving agreement structure, and translating contractual language into clear commercial positions, risk allocation, and operational obligations.
• Own post-award contract governance across CM partners — tracking compliance to commercial terms, key obligations, renewals, and amendments, and driving cross-functional follow-through when performance or documentation falls out of alignment.
• Build and leverage cost models, benchmarks, and should-cost analyses to inform sourcing decisions, evaluate supplier proposals, and strengthen Oura's negotiating position on vendor awards, product changes, and ongoing cost reduction efforts.
• Manage NPI program transitions through CMs — coordinating cross-functionally with Engineering, PMO, and Quality to ensure CM readiness, timeline alignment, and issue resolution.
• Develop and maintain a current view of CM partner performance — identifying risks, escalating issues proactively, and driving resolution with appropriate urgency.
• Contribute to CM strategy development — bringing a ground-level perspective on partner capabilities, gaps, and opportunities that informs long-term sourcing decisions.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority — representing sourcing's perspective clearly and driving alignment in rooms with Engineering, Finance, and Program leadership.
• Support functional improvement activities as they relate to EMS — including contract compliance, variance documentation, and concentration risk tracking.
• Operate effectively in ambiguity — managing competing priorities, incomplete information, and fast-moving program timelines without waiting to be told what to do.

Senior EMS Sourcing Manager

• The Category Manager applies their analytical skills and business expertise to take ownership and drive growth and profitability for the category(s) while articulating a clear strategy and long-term vision
• Lead your Buyers to strategically negotiate with vendors to secure exceptional everyday pricing, marketing & promotional budgets, special opportunity buys, growth incentives including rebates and accruals, delivery, and payment terms for large volume, highly visible accounts
• Manage and analyze key category metrics (KPIs) to drive solutions for category performance, new and existing brands, new products, pricing, gross margin, promotions, and product life cycle while seeking opportunities for improvement
• Continually develop and utilize strong category knowledge to build, edit and maintain current and future assortment creating market advantage while also reflecting customer needs/requests
• Establish an action plan to capitalize on category and product innovation, industry trends, global markets, competitor offerings, consumer trends, and ways to differentiate our offering to exceed customer expectations
• Foster relationships with large volume, highly visible existing/new vendors to drive sales, product innovation, margin growth, promotional support and maintain regular and consistent communication to ensure a clear understanding of short/long-term goals and capabilities
• Negotiation of contracts, product evaluation, quality issues, customer service questions and create and maintain supplier, product database
• Drive the new product/brand onboarding and maintenance process to ensure timely addition to market
• Calculate, maintain and evaluate cost, pricing, and product adjustments in system to ensure desired mark-ups, margin and seek strategic pricing opportunities
• Partner with Inventory Management and Planning Team in managing inventory turns, vendor forecasts, new item projections, service level, order cycles, rebate and marketing programs, special opportunity buys, and general supply chain practices
• Manage and develop short/long-term promotional activities that are profitable and highly effective in conjunction with the Marketing Team
• Create, review and utilize data/reports to enable in-depth analysis of category successes/challenges
• Comply with company policies and procedures, including safety, business ethics, and standards of conduct
• Cultivate, direct and support seasoned Buyers; enabling them to further develop and grow assigned category with tools for success

Category Manager, Bath & Personal Care

• Develop and execute purchasing strategies based on business, market, and technology trends and establish strong and competitive supply base
• Responsible for purchase of all or a specific portion of productive and/or non-productive materials, supplies, machinery, tooling and/or services
• Negotiate price, terms, and other items to complete full contract package
• Optimize supply performance by analyzing and applying appropriate tools including benchmarking, cost and value chain analysis, negotiations, supply chain analysis
• Work closely with cross functional partners internally and externally to trade off imperatives, identify creative solutions, and gain alignment, incl during RFQ management, change management, Procure to Pay, order fulfillment, and customer satisfaction
• Drive for winning outcomes that are focused on the mission of the business
• Develop and manage great supplier relationships
• Provide pro-active communication and resolution of issues
• Develop protection of supply and contingency plans

Senior Global Sourcing Manager – Semiconductors

• Maintain strategic alliances and partnerships that have already been established by the Purchasing organization.
• Perform negotiations, price analysis and order justifications.
• Streamline the order fulfillment process to ensure suppliers’ quality and delivery meet performance metrics.
• Conduct conference calls and establish strong lines of communications with assigned vendors.
• Understand the Company “Terms and Conditions”, especially the “Specification and Requirements” portion and flow down to the supply base.
• Immediately escalate any issues to a management and recommend a proper course of action.
• Make sure all procurements meet and are in compliance with corporate and L3Harris policies and procedures including signature authority.
• Ensure that the supplier is competent to perform service or manufacture product by assisting in performing a capabilities and risk assessment.
• Responsible to procure and manage assigned commodities to support L3 Harris production. This includes purchase order issuance and maintenance, administration of engineering changes, costing and cost project administration and purchased material cost analysis
• Create PO package with all required documentation, i.e., Price Analysis, Justification Worksheet, Order acknowledgement, PPV, Excess, etc.
• Lead supplier negotiations and the supplier selection process
• Identify and implement cost reduction opportunities, as well as overall material cost control
• Manage supplier relationships of those commodities assigned, and assist in the development and implementation of supplier base strategies
• Resolve supplier problems, including negotiations on Non-Conformances, invoicing, receipt discrepancy, terms and conditions, and service levels
• Control and manage the inventory integrity of purchased items in the MRP database associated with the commodities
• Provide guidance to the company on key events in the selected commodities that may affect the business plans of the company
• Seek out new suppliers and new processes and keep the company abreast of these developments
• Maintain documentation control in compliance with FAR/DFAR regulations and company procedures and policies
• Implement strategic goals as established by leadership and manage selected projects as assigned.

• Maintain strategic alliances and partnerships that have already been established by the Purchasing organization
• Perform supplier purchase order receipt follow-up, and ensure forecasted revenue dollars are met
• Conduct conference calls and establish strong lines of communications with assigned vendors
• Work with suppliers for decommits and determine appropriate course of action for recovery schedules
• Immediately escalate any issues to management and recommend a proper course of action
• Make sure all procurements meet and are in compliance with corporate and L3Harris policies and procedures including signature authority
• Ensure that the supplier is competent to perform service or manufacture product by assisting in performing a capabilities and risk assessment

• Develop timely and compliant proposals in support of Boeing's growth targets
• Summarize contractual issues that arise in complex contracts and proposals, perform financial analysis of contractual outcomes, and ultimately develop/implement/negotiate successful solutions
• Conduct negotiations and sign contracts for products, services, and technologies
• Develop, present, and implement business solutions to drive growth and protect company interests
• Ensure compliance with business commitments, company policies, and Government laws and regulations
• Review and approve work products prepared by colleagues
• Coordinate flow-down and flow-up of prime terms and conditions with Supplier Management

Lead Contract Management Specialist

• Serve as the primary procurement business partner to the Communications GM and leadership team.
• Develop and execute a multi-year procurement strategy aligned with Communications business priorities, technology roadmap, customer programs, and margin goals.
• Lead sourcing and supplier strategies across direct materials, engineered components, electronics, optics, mechanicals, contract manufacturing, capital equipment, logistics, and indirect spend.
• Partner closely with engineering, product management, operations, supply chain, finance, quality, and legal to align supplier strategies with business needs.
• Engage early in product development and NPI to influence design-to-cost, design-to-source, supplier selection, and supply readiness.
• Build and manage a global supplier network that supports cost, quality, delivery, innovation, capacity, responsiveness, and risk requirements.
• Lead major supplier negotiations, including pricing, payment terms, supply commitments, service levels, quality obligations, and commercial risk protections.
• Drive cost savings, productivity, cost avoidance, working-capital improvement, and gross margin expansion.
• Develop supply assurance strategies for critical components, single-source suppliers, constrained technologies, long-lead materials, and customer-critical programs.
• Improve supplier performance through scorecards, executive business reviews, supplier development, and corrective-action plans.
• Provide leadership visibility to supplier-market trends, technology constraints, cost drivers, capacity risks, and supply-chain exposures.
• Strengthen procurement analytics, processes, systems, reporting, and operating cadence.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing procurement team.

Vice President, Procurement – Communications

• Own technical decisions and cost outcomes for interconnect commodities by partnering closely with hardware engineering, manufacturing, and supplier engineering teams.
• Influence design decisions, enable supplier technical readiness, and remove development barriers from concept through mass production.
• Lead supplier technology roadmap discussions, assessing design approaches, materials, processes, and manufacturing capabilities.
• Hold suppliers accountable to development milestones, technical readiness, and qualification schedules.
• Facilitate hands-on collaboration between supplier engineering teams and Cisco engineers to resolve design and manufacturing issues.
• Drive value engineering initiatives that improve cost efficiency without compromising technical performance or reliability.

Technical Sourcing Commodity Manager

• Develops customer focused plans to drive year over year non-salary cost and variation reductions for the health system and measures performance to system, team, and individual goals
• Oversees development, communication, and implementation of strategic sourcing and value analysis project plans and activities to include management of schedule, cost, resources, and deliverables throughout all levels of the organization
• Provides oversight of negotiations and execution of contracts for services and supplies in accordance with Sutter standards
• Works with business partners at the strategic level, understanding goals and proposing plans to support them effectively
• Identifies program critical success factors and drives mitigation of significant issues and risks are key to this role

Manager, Strategic Sourcing

• Take ownership of contract negotiations and deal activity.
• Support contract deal activity including handling deals independently and with a team.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholder teams including Procurement Leadership, Finance, Accounts Payable, Internal Audit, Business Applications, Marketing, Human Resources, Physical Security and Safety, and Legal teams.
• Assist with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in system migrations and implementations, plus ad-hoc projects.

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