Cox Hiring for Senior Sourcing Manager at Harvey, LA  Full Time

Purpose (Overall Accountability)

• Provide comprehensive sourcing strategies that ensure the ”best value” result is achieved. This includes identifying, evaluating, and selecting vendors to meet internal business needs, managing sourcing processes and completing necessary documentation (including RFQs, RFIs, and RFPs), and conducting vendor capability and suitability assessments.
• Lead in negotiating product/service pricing and contractual terms and conditions.
• Engage suppliers by leading the end-to-end supplier selection and bidding processes across high value spend and continuous improvement processes.
• Responsible for the evaluation of vendor performance and compliance when considering contract renewals.
• Expected to have a deep understanding of our internal customers businesses and their objectives to develop strategies that meet their current and future procurement needs as well as develop broad vendor, product, and industry knowledge to provide sourcing expertise to internal clients.
• Responsible for enabling delivery of annual savings, diversity spend and operational improvement targets. Measure Results and benefits across financial and operational dimensions, including price, quality, and service.
• Responsible for developing and planning programs designed to continuously improve supplier performance, optimize the supplier base, and optimize addressable spend/cost within the categories, while balancing the needs and desired business results of business and boundary partners. Results and benefits are measured across financial and operational dimensions, including supplier total cost of ownership and contract compliance
• Drive establishing standardized and comprehensive contract management packages that comply with the Contract Department processes and procedures requirements and that also minimize any potential financial or contractual risks.
• Responsible for compliance of suppliers and contracts with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Accountable for ensuring proper onboarding/offboarding, compliance, performance planning, coaching and evaluation of suppliers in accordance with corporate supply chain policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain category strategies and plans in the following categories of spend: Enterprise IT Software, Network Hardware maintenance and support as well as the procurement of IT equipment
• Drive competitive sourcing events and support vendor selection process.
• Execute detailed baselining and spend analytics within categories of ownership.
• Track ongoing compliance of IT category and drive escalation process for non-approved system spend activities.
• Support in supplier escalation processes and supplier relationship management/issue resolution.

• Drive implementation planning and execution for identified purchasing opportunities within new or existing suppliers and solutions.
• Maintain knowledge of suppliers within IT categories for opportunity identification and business case development.
• Drive special project opportunities within IT categories (supplier and cost benchmarking and research, etc).
• Solicits formal and informal bids for requested services, consider/benchmark price, terms, delivery, compatibility, total cost of the supplier’s ability to meet their responsibilities.
• Optimize supply base moving towards a few strategic suppliers.
• Establish balanced scorecard selection metrics that extend beyond purchase price.
• Support implementation, planning and execution for identified purchasing opportunities within new or existing suppliers and solutions.
• Serves as an agent to guide Cox’s supplier diversity efforts by providing data monitoring, evaluation, status reports and program communication.
• Responsible for incorporating diversity and sustainability initiatives of the Enterprise and Division into category and supplier management practices.
• Develops and implements Program standards, procedures, guidance, and discipline.
• Identifies change management opportunities and develops recommendations.
• Responsible for facilitating meetings and presentations to senior leadership.
• Works with the contracts department to create agreements/contracts/standing orders with successful vendor(s), which contain the benefits (prices, service, technology, asset/inventory management, quality, etc.), using corporate contract templates or other approved methods.
• Negotiates contracts for strategic and large vendor contracts for the procurement of services.
• Implement multi-year strategic alliances with suppliers to leverage companywide volume, reducing the number of vendors to an optimum number.
• Provide input to sourcing executives on decisions for the IT area of capital and operational expenditures in conjunction with business stakeholders and boundary partners.
• Responsible for the development of annual category strategies and plans for assigned categories, which will include market and baseline analysis, supplier capability assessments, business need assessment against available spend, and industry benchmarking.
• Participate in the development of supplier acquisition/management strategies for function, region and department business and boundary partners.
• Develop and maintain broad product and industry knowledge of trends and best-in-class practices for assigned categories.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of suppliers to ensure a pipeline of available suppliers, opportunity identification, and business case development.
• Recommend new category strategies, process improvements and supplier relationship structures for the division.
• Design and lead the implementation of improvements, modifications, or adaptations to category and supplier management techniques.
• Manage current supplier relationships at the supply chain level and develop transition strategy for termination/renewal in conjunction with business and boundary partners.
• Manage escalations involving critical and strategic suppliers within assigned categories and drive resolution.
• May participate in negotiation of escalated/highly critical contracts and projects as needed.
• Supports business and boundary partners in supplier escalations and management/issue resolution.
• Develop effective and collaborative relationships with key business stakeholders and boundary partners.
• Present and communicate to business partner leadership regarding current state of categories and suppliers.
• Integrate with Technology Governance & Technology Finance teams to ensure alignment with Technology’s strategic plans in IT software/HW.

Qualifications

Minimum

• BS/BA in related discipline (e.g. Supply Chain Management, Business Management, Human Resources, Operations); and 8 years of experience in related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 6 years’ experience; a Ph.D. in a related discipline with 3 years experience; or 12 years of experience in a related field.
• Experience successfully supporting a large-scale Program Management / Process Improvement / Integration initiatives resulting in organizational change.
• Experience negotiating with IT Suppliers.
• Proven experience in the 7-step strategic sourcing process.
• Solid analytic capabilities required.
• RFx experience required.
• Experience assigning and coordinating work of cross-functional team members to accomplish project goals.
• Advanced experience with MS Office (Microsoft Project, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Self-starter with ability to manage projects and relationships independently.
• Excellent negotiating and influencing skills through written or verbal communication with specific
• experience in management reporting and executive presentations.
• Proven ability to create and execute effective business plans.
• Solid business financial understanding and exceptional organization and analytical skills.
• Strong understanding of the IT Category.
• Some travel required.

Preferred:

• Understanding and demonstrated use of ERP and Office 365 system highly desirable.
• Experience in leading IT Category for a Fortune 500 company.
• Project management experience and six sigma training preferred.

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