Procurement Practice Specialist

Responsibilities:

Client Relationship Management

• Pursue and develop seniorlevel stakeholder relationships at priorityaccounts; support account stakeholder relationship plans
• Understand our contractual obligations with the clients you have oversightfor and scope of services provided by the company

Leading Sourcing Function

• Continuously design innovate & improve on the execution of sourcing tolead in the new
• Develop and deploy Sourcing offering deliverables (i.e. process templatestools insights)
  
• Ensure consistency of sourcing project delivery within designated team byleveraging best practices across the Agile Sourcing organization
• Review operational results and identify opportunities for process changes
• Define and build the sourcing product offering (i.e. operating modelorganizational design off/nearshore optimization best practices sourcing andbuying tools strategic and tactical sourcing approaches key metrics andreports)
• Establish and foster a positive organizational culture for your team
• Collaborate with Strategy & Consulting Account Management ProcurementCategory Advisory and Procurement Advisory teams for upsell and solutiondevelopment (i.e. sales tours)

Team Management

• Provide coaching mentoring and guidance to team members on stakeholder andproject management with a special emphasis on collaboration customer focusdelivery excellence (diligence project management hygiene discipline) andcontinuous improvement
• Directly manage and develop the capability of the Sourcing Project Managersin our business
• Overall accountability for the sourcing projects and Project Managers withinyour team
• Accountable for ensuring project staffing meets both skill and costrequirements
• Ensure team members receive necessary training to remain relevant to clients
• Maintain overall team chargeability in line with targets
  

Leading Complex Sourcing Projects

• Potentially lead medium to high complexity sourcing projects as needed (tounderstand the requirements and challenges your team members face)
• Make a significant impact from a client satisfaction standpoint with yourprojects
• Lead teams by example through the delivery of outstanding projects

Skills and Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of relevant work experience in Strategic Sourcing / CategoryManagement
  
• 3 years supervisory experience
  
• With stakeholder management experience
  
• Supported clients in the US / international client or regions not local tothe Philippines (required)
  
• Preferred candidates are those from BPO consulting but NOT required
  
• College graduate

Remote Work :

No