Job description:

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Key Job Responsibilities include:
MRO category -
a) Set Strategic Sourcing Initiative Strategy:

Objectives: Define Initiative/Activity/Project Plan, Obtain Executive Alignment.
Key Job Responsibilities: Determine Scope, Participation and Timing for Strategic Sourcing Activity. Define Scope, Regions, Stakeholders, Spend, Contracts, Vendors, Strategy, Savings Opportunity, etc.

b) Execute Strategic Sourcing Activity Strategy:

Objectives: Establish Selection Criteria, Conduct Vendor Assessment, Recommend Finalists, Transition Deal to Contract Management (Buy Desk) for Execution.

Key Job Responsibilities: Execute RFX: RFP, RFQ, RFI, Negotiation, Other Assessment; Evaluate Vendors: Complete Proposal Analysis: Quantitative-Complex Analytical Financial/TCO Price Models & Qualitative-Product/ Service Offer Scorecard; Negotiate/ Award: Define & Execute Negotiation Strategy, Recommend Vendors.

Execute RFX: Gather Requirements from Business & Functional Owners; Obtain Plan, RFX & Vendor List Approval, Execute NDAs, Create Rate Card with Inclusions/ Exclusions Fully Loaded TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) Quantified, Volumes, SLAs, Current/ Future State Process, Other.

Evaluate Vendors: Validate Vendor Completed Scorecard (Self-Assessment); Analyze Price Model (Fully Loaded TCO); Facilitate Vendor Finalist Presentations, Demos, Site Visits as needed (Technical Discovery Sessions optional); Support Stakeholder Vendor Selection

Negotiate/ Award: Obtain Stakeholder Approval of Negotiation Strategy; Execute Negotiation of Key Business Terms for Strategically Sourced Contracts; Present Recommendation, Obtain Executive Approval for Selection Decisions Obtain Written Rate Lock Down in writing from vendor, Validate Savings;

Transition: Implementation to Stakeholder; Transition Contract Execution to Contract Mgmt (Buy Desk); Agree SRM/ Contract Compliance Plan with Stakeholder"

• To increase value from supply base through innovative commercial and contracting models, deliver a global and consistent approach for spend, develop savings plans and track and report actual delivery against target for the supply chain. Be a SME for the business and capture logistics, distribution and shipment tracking requirements.
• To manage a Supply Chain team and serve as escalation point globally cross functional and business issues and escalations.
• To manage the implementation of new process and tools to map supply chain requirements into solutions for the business. Example: Develop, implement and execute shipment mapping and routing solutions.
• To plan, manage and lead shipment tracking and expediting initiatives for both customers and internal requirements.
• To develop and own effective relationships with key strategic suppliers, implement a supplier relationship management approach, monitor the supply market using benchmarks and supply indices, manage the contracting and negotiation processes, evaluate and improve supplier performance.
• To develop, implement and execute Supply Chain strategies, annual plans and Knowledge Bases (SCKB) for a supply chain across all the customer and internal spend which includes identify key strategic supply requirements.