SBM is seeking a customer focused Strategic Sourcing Manager! As a member of our Strategic Sourcing team, you’ll be helping us establish sourcing strategies and implement best-in-class sourcing activities including commodity management and service supplier management and ensuring supplier compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Requests for Information (RFI), Requests for Proposal (RFP), Request for Quotation (RFQ), evaluation of responses.

• Lead evaluation, selection, development, and retention of the suppliers providing goods and services needed to conduct business.

• Use current spend information and knowledge to identify potential cost reduction plans.

• Improve supplier performance against negotiated service level agreements and quality metrics.

• Lead transformational activities to build and mature the Strategic Sourcing organizational capabilities and improve procurement efficiency.

• Create Strategic Sourcing Strategy to support SBM growth and reduce the onboarding time for new vendors.

• Lead complex sourcing events, facilitate contracting, and manage supplier relationships across your supplier base.

• Research and identify savings and supplier optimization opportunities within SBM’s current and future service’s needs.

• Cultivate positive relationships across the business and all levels to find solutions and have courage to put forth new ideas and challenge biases.

• Analyze value proposition and total cost of ownership, understanding delineation of operating and capital expenditures, working with Finance partners.

• Monitor and support ownership budget and associated actuals, supervising spend by supplier, team, project, and business unit.

• Build and own detailed reporting for internal customers regarding supplier relationships using metrics on savings, supplier diversity, sustainability, preferred supplier usage and supplier rationalization.

• Make recommendations for a supplier vision and strategy for a specified business unit or internal customer team.

• Ensure that SBM always has qualified vendors that can meet or exceed our internal and external customer requirements at preferred pricing levels.

• Negotiate all third-party contracts for identified buying categories, including evaluating current market conditions, trends, and their effect on timing and costs for purchasing.

• Manage the qualification, compliance and maintenance of records related to third-party relationships.

• Travel is limited

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, or a related field from a four-year college or university with 3-5 years of experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Two or more years of indirect procurement experience (preferably with service vendors).

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