Procurement

• Analyze transportation spend, volumes, rates, fuel surcharges, and service performance across global transportation categories.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, scorecards, reports, and KPI tracking tools using Power BI, Excel, and other analytical platforms.
• Identify trends, cost drivers, risks, and improvement opportunities through data analysis.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual business reviews with transportation suppliers.
• Ensure data accuracy and consistency across multiple systems and reporting sources.
• Support strategic sourcing initiatives by gathering and analyzing supplier, market, and internal spend data.
• Assist with Request for Proposal (RFP) activities, bid analysis, benchmarking, and supplier evaluations.
• Prepare business cases and fact-based recommendations to support sourcing decisions.
• Maintain transportation category spend databases and savings tracking tools.

Strategic Sourcing Specialist

• Build and implement a strategic sourcing framework that drives efficiency, compliance, and agility in purchasing software, cloud services, and business partnerships.
• Oversee procurement operations to ensure all requests flow smoothly through the right reviews and approval paths while meeting SLAs for speed and compliance.
• Partner with CISO and IT teams to ensure software purchases are secure, complementary to our existing stack, and optimized for cost.
• Serve as system admin for Zip, maintaining and improving workflows that guide stakeholders through each stage of the SaaS and services procurement lifecycle.
• Advise business partners on procurement policy and best practices, ensuring expectations are managed and decisions align with company standards.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Finance to monitor and optimize cloud spend, surfacing insights that drive budget efficiency.

Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Vendor Management

• Own the category narrative. Define the category Affirm is building, what it is and how the space should be understood, and ensure that through-line holds whether someone encounters it in a press story, an earnings call, or a policy conversation.
• Develop and maintain messaging frameworks. Guide how Affirm talks about credit, financial experience, and consumer protection.
• Partner with Legal, Policy, and Product. Ensure the category narrative reflects how the product actually works and keeps pace as it evolves, framing new capabilities in the context of the broader credit ecosystem — and push for language that's both legally sound and narratively strong.
• Proactively build consumer clarity. Identify where confusion has eroded trust and turn those friction points into brand opportunities.
• Keep the narrative current. Work closely with cross-functional partners to identify when the consumer financial narrative needs to evolve, and lead the process of updating it when it does.
• Stay ahead of the conversation. Identify the conversations shaping the future of payments that we want to enter and lead, and monitor the media, policy, and competitive landscape for narrative risks and opportunities before they become obvious.
• Support high-visibility moments. Bring the narrative infrastructure to earnings, policy milestones, and category-defining press, ensuring Affirm shows up with a clear, consumer-centered point of view.
• Adapt the narrative for global markets. Ensure Affirm's forward-looking narrative translates across markets with different cultural contexts around credit and lending — consistent in belief, sensitive in perspective.

Senior Manager, Category Narrative

• Maintain and deepen Nava’s relationships with existing cooperative purchasing vehicles, state-specific procurement mechanisms, and schedule contract holders
• Conduct regular outreach and engagement with vehicle administrators and state procurement officials to keep Nava positioned as an active, compliant, and preferred vendor on existing vehicles
• Monitor utilization rates and activity on current vehicles; identify underperforming vehicles and develop strategies to increase engagement or reactivate dormant relationships
• Track contract vehicle renewal timelines, compliance requirements, and reporting obligations; coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure Nava meets all vehicle-level requirements proactively
• Serve as Nava’s primary relationship owner with vehicle administrators, cooperative purchasing organizations, and state procurement bodies
• Identify procurement vehicles, cooperative agreements, and acquisition pathways in priority states where Nava currently lacks coverage or where gaps create a competitive disadvantage
• Develop and execute a vehicle establishment roadmap, prioritizing new cooperative agreements, schedule contracts, and state-specific vehicles that open doors in key target states before pursuits require them
• Lead the application, onboarding, and activation process for new vehicles; coordinate with Legal, Finance, and Contracts to ensure compliance and timely execution
• Build and maintain a current vehicle map that tracks which vehicles Nava is on, which are actively used, and which represent untapped entry points by territory
• Lead the early operationalization of Nava’s NASPO ValuePoint agreement, including identifying the incremental infrastructure, processes, and marketing efforts required to support NASPO at scale
• Develop a NASPO-specific go-to-market plan that identifies target states, outreach strategies, and activation milestones for the first 6–12 months
• Coordinate with the GTM and Communications teams to develop NASPO-specific marketing and nurturing materials that increase state awareness of and confidence in purchasing through the vehicle
• Track NASPO pipeline activity and utilization; report on vehicle performance and surface recommendations for improving activation and revenue contribution
• Provide per-territory acquisition pathway recommendations integrated directly into Capture Engineer territory capture plans, answering “how does this state buy services like ours” before the relationship conversation advances far enough to matter
• Conduct competitive vehicle analysis: identify where competitors are positioned on cooperative vehicles that could lock Nava out of procurements, and develop strategies to close those gaps preemptively
• Advise Capture Managers on activated pursuits where vehicle selection is a competitive variable
• Research and analyze state-specific procurement authority, sole-source pathways, emergency procurement options, and cooperative vehicle eligibility to ensure Nava has a viable acquisition route for every priority opportunity
• Maintain a landscape of cooperative purchasing organizations (NASPO, NCPA, SEWP, state-specific cooperatives) and advise on Nava’s positioning relative to each

Procurement Vehicle Strategist

• Serves as a key leader within Global Business Services (GBS) Sourcing, focused on the U.S. market.
• Drives the sourcing vision, mission, and strategy while ensuring operational efficiency in a highly regulated environment.
• Aligns U.S. priorities with global Sourcing Excellence & Transformation (SE&T) initiatives and reports directly to the Vice President, Head of Purchasing in the U.S.
• Enhances Boehringer Ingelheim’s sourcing capabilities through excellence, transformation, and innovation.
• Translates global strategies into U.S.-specific actions and manages the sourcing business portfolio.
• Oversees performance management, data analytics, governance, compliance, and project portfolio management.
• Promotes digitalization and sustainable sourcing while ensuring adherence to U.S. laws and global standards.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and the global Head of SE&T to ensure harmonized solutions.
• Ensures sourcing strategies deliver value, mitigate risk, and foster continuous improvement across local and global operations.

Director, Sourcing Excellence – Transformation

• Responsible for all Production, MRO, Project and Service procurement and supply management functions relating to, and in support of cost reduction and supply chain risk mitigation initiatives.
• Specific focus on sourcing and supplier development; including, but not limited to: Request For Quotation, bid analysis, supplier selection, commercial negotiations, and overall production schedule performance in accordance with technical, commercial, quality, safety, and schedule requirements.
• Responsible for negotiating and/or implementing contracts with suppliers for price, quality, delivery, and service.
• Working with Supplier Development Engineer, will find innovative ways to reach common ground for a win/win relationship to develop a global supply base that creates and sustains a competitive advantage for FCE.
• Identifies and actively pursues cost reduction opportunities, driving savings in line with overall business expectations, ensuring targets for cost reduction are met.
• Manages cost models for suppliers (price, volume, discounts, commodity cost forecasts and cost drivers, etc.).
• Maintain ownership of the whole procurement process from component acquisition, and administration of contract, on time deliveries, quality through invoice payment and warranty terms.
• Develop and maintain metrics for monitoring supply chain processes and take corrective actions and drive for continuous improvement all throughout the supply chain.
• Responsible and accountable for developing and managing risk mitigation plans for assigned product categories.
• Responsible for maintaining an effective Kanban system with suppliers to improve inventory turns, while maintaining 100% on time shipment to our customers.
• Make sure suppliers have current approved and released Specs and Drawings revisions.
• Participate in new product introduction as required; help identify and qualify new suppliers as needed.
• Participate in Suppliers Audit as required.
• Interface with Manufacturing, Finance, Engineering, Quality, and shipping/receiving personnel on material issues, invoicing issues, production planning and other issues.
• Function as a team member to share ideas, exchange and report information, and develop solutions to problems to assure on time delivery to our customers while continue to improve inventory turns.
• Maintain all purchasing data in ERP.
• Uses their market knowledge to mitigate obsolescence risks; proactively seek information to predict, understand and analyze obsolescence risks and develop appropriate strategies.
• Perform additional tasks and/or special projects as requested.

Procurement Specialist

• Support sourcing projects, strategies, contract execution.
• Conduct spend/usage analyses, market research, and supplier landscape to identify cost savings, risk mitigation, and value creation opportunities.
• Partner with stakeholders to define business requirements, develop RFx’s, and evaluate vendor proposals
• Support negotiation strategies for vendor agreements, statements of work (SOWs), software licensing agreements, and other commercial contracts.
• Collaborate with Legal, Finance, Security, and stakeholders throughout the contract review and execution process
• Identify opportunities for demand management and operational efficiencies
• Lead project planning, stakeholder communications, and status reporting
• Deliver presentations, recommendations, to stakeholders and leadership

Senior Sourcing Analyst, IT and AI Procurement

• Provide support of Integrated Facilities and Project Development Services client and internal stakeholders related to optimization of JLL project management execution and sourcing strategies.
• Ensure compliance to sourcing and contracting policies and procedures.
• Responsible for data integrity of contract database and other data management tools.
• Administer and maintain contract and supplier files to ensure compliance with Jones Lang LaSalle and client requirements.
• Provide support of operations teams RFP/bid, contracting and operational processes.
• Help to manage incoming/outgoing transitions plans for service providers, communicating any contract changes.
• Establish relationship with Corporate Legal and Risk Management to ensure all contractual terms and conditions comply with standards or other contract changes are formally reviewed and approved by legal/risk management.

Strategic Sourcing Coordinator

• Lead sourcing initiatives across the organization
• Partner with leaders across IT, Marketing, Facilities, Finance, Legal, and other corporate functions to optimize indirect spend
• Negotiate favorable supplier agreements and deliver measurable business value
• Influence stakeholders, build strong supplier partnerships, and manage complex sourcing initiatives
• Identify opportunities to improve quality, reduce costs, and mitigate risk
• Provide leadership to one Procurement team member responsible for supporting procurement programs

Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement

• Effectively manage supplier/client interactions to ensure that profit and margin goals for this solution are met
• Manage relationships with military installations and execute and monitor purchase order requests
• Support the invoicing, payment, and order documentation processes
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts for this solution
• Represents the Military Installation Support team at assigned internal meetings
• Other duties as assigned

Senior Purchasing Agent

• Assist with procurement of goods and services by creating, updating and closing out all purchase requisitions for Digital Technology.
• Identify, research, analyze and resolve purchasing issues with DT areas.
• Provide a variety of support functions within the Vendor Management Office.
• Support DT VMO project implementations.
• Create, maintain and update process documentation around DT purchase requisitioning, invoicing support and other DT VMO processes as needed.
• Collaborate with the members of the VMO and other departments to optimize the purchase requisition process.
• Maintenance of various DT VMO communications forums.
• Assist in resolving DT VMO questions or concerns.

Co-op – Digital Technologies Vendor Management

• Develop sourcing strategies and lead negotiations for HR contracts to ensure favorable terms aligned with RTX technical, financial, and performance objectives.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR and business stakeholders, aligning sourcing activity with strategic priorities.
• Lead end-to-end sourcing activities, including requirements gathering, market analysis, RFx creation and management, supplier evaluations, and award recommendations.
• Manage partnerships supporting recruitment agencies and headhunters to support global talent acquisition needs.
• Evaluate and select suppliers for learning and development programs, including training providers, leadership development solutions, and e-learning platforms.
• Oversee supplier relationships related to benefits administration, employee wellness programs, and other HR services.
• Manage relocation and mobility services contracts, including relationships with relocation firms and providers of immigration and expatriate services.
• Create and execute category strategies balancing cost efficiency, compliance, and employee experience.
• Ensure compliance with labor laws, GDPR, and applicable privacy regulations throughout the contracting and supplier engagement process.
• Partner with HR consulting firms and global stakeholders (e.g., Singapore) to support international sourcing requirements.
• Coordinate and lead calls across multiple time zones to support regional HR operations.
• Conduct contract reviews, redlines, and drafting of contract amendments for MTAs, MSAs, Order Forms, NDAs, and related documents through to execution.
• Collaborate with Legal, Finance, and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on contracting, budgeting, and compliance requirements.

• Support and train members of the Delivery Assurance Team by holding weekly vendor meetings to ensure on-time delivery (OTD) and resolve issues.
• Create and implement robust and effective standard work and processes.
• Review and analyze hardware shortage statuses.
• Facilitate and influence cross-functional resolution actions to improve on-time delivery.
• Provide timely communication to customer account managers regarding critical parts commitment streams and key shortage recovery plans.
• Coordinate with spare parts distribution centers to expedite logistics for critical orders.
• Collaborate with customer account managers to understand customer requirements.
• Communicate customer requirements to the Global Supply Chain, monitor material movements, and act as the customer advocate for on-time delivery.

Vendor Management Lead

• Acts as the primary liaison for the material and supply organization, partnering with program, operations, engineering, and planning teams to guide and align supply chain processes
• Reviews and manages a high volume and variety of materials, supplies, and services in support of program requirements
• Evaluates bids and recommends suppliers and components aligned to program objectives, ensuring award execution through order completion
• Coordinates supply chain activities at Richardson site to maintain BOM health, part readiness, supplier alignment, and material availability
• Partners with procurement teams to prioritize material shortages, supplier constraints, and high-risk issues impacting production
• Provides regular reporting to Operations leadership on supply chain performance, material readiness, supplier risks, and mitigation plans
• Analyzes complex supply chain challenges, applying sound judgment to develop solutions aligned with established policies and organizational objectives
• Plans and executes assigned work independently, establishing priorities and managing activities to meet program timelines and deliverables
• Serves as a key point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, collaborating with senior personnel on cross-functional supply chain initiatives
• Utilizes ERP systems and standard supply chain processes to manage procurement execution and drive material outcomes across assigned commodities and programs
• This role requires up to 10% travel, generally involving short trips a few days at a time, up to twice per month

Principal Specialist, Procurement

• Entry-level Procurement professional
• Carries out processes, standards, and operational plans in support of Procurement, including RFPs, negotiation preparations, and cost analysis.
• Works with buyers in activities associated with purchasing goods, materials, supplies, and / or services.
• Carries out processes and standards in support of Procurement, including RFPs, negotiations, cost accountability, and / or program execution.
• Responds to client inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Works with buyers in activities associated with purchasing goods, materials, supplies, and services.
• Prepares purchase orders and payment approvals to ensure the procurement process goes smoothly.
• Assembles price proposals, financial reports, and other data and information for analysis.
• Supports the preparation of request for proposals (RFP) and bid packages.
• Compiles records of items purchased, costs, deliveries, product performance, and inventories, analyzes data and ensures account needs are met.
• Contacts suppliers to schedule or expedite deliveries to ensure resolution of problems such as shortages and missed or late deliveries.
• Conduct market research to assess supplier capabilities, pricing trends, and emerging risks.

Procurement Analyst

• Lead procurement of strategic packaging categories for Nestlé Health Science US, managing a complex spend portfolio of approximately $30–$40M across a diverse supplier base.
• Partner cross-functionally to align on business needs and drive effective sourcing strategies, supplier selection, pricing, contracting, and supplier performance.
• Develop and execute short- and long-term category strategies and annual sourcing plans to deliver value and support business objectives.
• Lead supplier negotiations and establish contract pricing, terms, and conditions to secure high-value, cost-effective agreements.
• Conduct market research and monitor industry trends to inform category strategies and adapt to changing business needs.

Senior Procurement Category Management Specialist – Packaging

• Develop and implement category strategies globally, including identifying needs, project planning, collecting internal and external data, performing strategic analysis and identifying opportunities, formulating procurement strategies and developing implementation plans.
• Form, lead, and facilitate cross-functional teams as applicable to execute the procurement process and plans; enable supplier selection and decision process; lead/facilitate contract development, negotiation and execution process, including complex commercial negotiations involving pricing, service levels, risk allocation, liability, and performance incentives.
• Manage strategy alignment, long term security of supply, supplier performance, and establish preferred supply base.
• Ensure optimal supplier pricing, supply responsiveness, quality, and contractual compliance.
• Own the end-to-end contract lifecycle, including negotiation, execution, amendments, renewals, compliance monitoring, and terminations.
• Partner with Legal to structure and negotiate contract terms and lead resolution of disputes, claims, and performance gaps.
• Establish and maintain master agreements, long-term supply agreements, and SOW frameworks that support scalability, risk mitigation, and operational efficiency.
• Develop appropriate risk management strategies which anticipate and address an extensive range of commercial, supply, and contractual risk scenarios to assure supply of ICU Medical’s requirements.
• Maintain industry intelligence on technology trends, sourcing options, and competitive pricing.
• Measure and report on commodity performance objectives, monitor supplier performance, conduct periodic business reviews, and initiate corrective action when necessary, including contract-based KPIs, SLAs, and scorecards.
• Review, negotiate, and maintain Supplier Agreements and supporting documentation.
• Benchmark prices and pricing information to ensure that the company is receiving the most cost-effective, highest quality products.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to support the sourcing process.
• Coordinate with other functions and impacted stakeholders to assure timely implementation and compliance with the agreed sourcing strategies.
• Work on special assignments as they arise.

Global Category Manager – Contracts and Purchased Finished Goods

• Accountable for roughly $50-75M spend per year
• Works with Director, Direct Sourcing to develop and present sourcing strategies to reduce category cost and mitigate supply risk
• Leverages market intelligence and analyses to identify opportunities and risks, including but not limited to spend analysis, commodity pricing forecasts, contract coverage analysis, etc.
• Collaborates with product management, commercial and operations teams that direct sourcing supports to ensure alignment on sourcing strategies, and that relevant market intelligence is shared.
• Develops and maintains a rolling 36-month sourcing strategy and project roadmap, identifying savings estimates, estimated timing of savings, and execution plans
• Drives execution of category sourcing strategies (e.g., RFI/RFQ, supplier qualification, auction rounds, negotiation), coordinating with Technical Managers, Quality, Product Managers, and others as required.
• Maintains relationships with key vendors, and helps address vendor related issues (e.g., pricing issues, performance issues, etc.)
• Monitors category spend to ensure sourcing savings are captured and do not erode over time
• Conducts regular project execution reviews with the Director and VP, Direct Strategic Sourcing, and the respective business/functional leaders
• Responds to raw material category sourcing requests in a timely and efficient manner
• Negotiates contracts in line with corporate DOA guidelines
• Supports the budget process by providing expectations for material price outlooks

Sourcing Manager

• Develop and implement category strategies for logistics, warehousing, and transportation services, including identifying needs, project planning, collecting internal and external data, performing strategic analysis and identifying opportunities, formulating procurement strategies, and developing implementation plans.
• Form, lead, and facilitate cross-functional teams as applicable to execute the procurement process and plans; enable supplier selection and decision process; lead/facilitate contract development, negotiation and execution process.
• Establish should-cost models and benchmark rates across carriers and logistics providers.
• Manage strategy alignment, long term security of supply, supplier performance, and establish preferred supply base.
• Ensure optimal supplier pricing, supply responsiveness, quality, and contractual compliance.
• Develop appropriate risk management strategies which anticipate and address an extensive range of risk scenarios to assure supply of ICU Medical’s requirements.
• Maintain industry intelligence on technology trends, sourcing options, and competitive pricing.
• Measure and report on commodity performance objectives, monitor supplier performance, conduct periodic business reviews, and initiate corrective action when necessary.
• Review, negotiate, and maintain Supplier Agreements and supporting documentation.
• Benchmark prices and pricing information to ensure that the company is receiving the most cost-effective, highest quality products.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to support the sourcing process.
• Coordinate with other functions and impacted stakeholders to assure timely implementation and compliance with the agreed to sourcing strategies.
• Work on special assignments as they arise.

Global Category Manager – Logistics, Warehousing & Transportation

• Establish strong relationships with stakeholders; building a robust understanding of mission critical priorities and requirements across spend categories and suppliers
• Work collaboratively with geographically dispersed stakeholders to develop strategic category plans for IT Software, Subscription and Mobility categories
• Serve as the Procurement SME for your stakeholders and guide them on strategic sourcing and operational procurement processes
• Lead cross-functional teams through a disciplined sourcing process
• Present compelling business cases to influence decision-makers at all levels of the organization

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Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Vendor Management

Senior Manager, Category Narrative

Procurement Vehicle Strategist

Director, Sourcing Excellence – Transformation

Procurement Specialist

Senior Sourcing Analyst, IT and AI Procurement

Strategic Sourcing Coordinator

Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement

Senior Purchasing Agent

Co-op – Digital Technologies Vendor Management

Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Vendor Management Lead

Principal Specialist, Procurement

Procurement Analyst

Senior Procurement Category Management Specialist – Packaging

Global Category Manager – Contracts and Purchased Finished Goods

Sourcing Manager

Global Category Manager – Logistics, Warehousing & Transportation

Procurement Category Manager