-Manages preferred supplier relationships, monitoring performance and analyzing spend, and ability to connect with business leaders in an effort to define and strategically leverage spending to include proactive focus on major spend initiatives.
-Strategizes with stakeholders to identify and proactively focus on regional major spend initiatives or opportunities to drive optimal cost savings.
-Leads regular sourcing meetings to discuss current and future projects while focusing speed of execution.
-Proposes and drive opportunities for optimal cost savings through analysis of current spend and external analysis and benchmarking.
-Leads or facilitate supplier selection, Request for Proposal (RFP) projects and negotiation process to deliver agreements that include excellent long-term pricing models, measurable service level/performance criteria, effective remedies for non-performance, mechanisms for monitoring perfor...