Sourcing Consultant Job Description
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Sourcing Consultant Job Description
- Execute negotiation and sourcing strategies related to assigned IT Software portfolio to ensure accurate contract renewals and supplier invoicing and ensure supplier compliance with contract terms and conditions and pricing
- Provide contract solutions which mitigate risk and align with business objectives and strategies
- Responsible for advising and educating stakeholders on key contract terms and conditions such as service levels, deliverables and IP rights
- Memorialize results of negotiations through development and review of contractual language with support from Contract Management
- Develop methodologies to capture savings value derived negotiations and ongoing improvement activities
- Ensure Sourcing meets its committed savings objectives with support from Spend Analytics, by conducting variance to plan analysis
- Provide exceptional experience to the candidates and your internal/ external partners
- Be a super user/admin of the ATS / RMS
- Provide timely metrics, reports and status updates on assigned requisitions/ projects or as requested
- Participate in industry, diversity, veteran and college hiring events
- Experience working within multiple industries and across applicable geographies is preferred
- Must have knowledge of Ariba Contracts, Ariba SIPM and Ariba P2P
- Must have Ariba configuration, enhancement and customization experience
- Deliver multiple pieces of work in parallel, both client facing and internal
- Contribute to the development of targeted sourcing strategies that will enable the Recruitment team to meet business goals and targets
- Maintain current industry and market knowledge on trends and changes
Sourcing Consultant Job Description
- Understanding the technology, vendors and industries in which our clients operate
- Performing and supporting activities on Technology Sourcing Advisory engagements, from strategy to implementation
- Assist our clients in thinking through broader operational and transformation implications of their technology purchases
- Assist with the research, selection, configuration and implementation of a CRM Recruitment system
- Identify more efficient and organized approaches to capturing, leveraging and sharing value-add information across the broader Talent Acquisition team
- Proactively identify, data-mine, organize and map (tag) relevant candidate profiles in Linkedin Recruiter/ATS tools for current and future job openings
- Through research, generate extensive library of boolean search lists to bring pinpoint search efficiencies to future searches
- Identify and utilise other channels to accrue relevant talent and market intelligence
- Craft and manage effective e-mail campaigns (in-mail library) to generate candidate interest in current openings
- Assist in generating new website content and enhancing our reporting capabilities
- Knowledge of advance sourcing techniques, X-rating, Flipping, and Peeling Back
- Knowledge of talent/people aggregators Prophet, Peoplegraph, vibe, Connect 6
- Applicants should possess significant experience successfully developing, implementing, measuring and adjusting comprehensive sourcing strategies and plans, and identifying and leveraging source channels
- Build and maintain relationships across the Recruitment team to ensure that we leverage opportunities, build proactive pipelines in targeted areas and profiles, and deliver a best in class candidate experience
- Experience contracting with foreign/international suppliers preferred
- Knowledge of assigned commodity industry / marketplace
Sourcing Consultant Job Description
- Prepare and issue Requests for Proposals
- Leading, managing and facilitate Procurement Projects
- Successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of the projects at the assigned location(s)
- Focuses on driving value by creating a combination of value enhancements in relationships with agencies and cost transparency, understanding drivers and negotiating contracts with appropriate controls and incentives
- Executes standardized strategic sourcing processes for assigned categories/sub-categories
- Focuses on financial benefits for the Enterprise
- Participates in cross-enterprise functional teams for sub-categories and aggressively tracks and improves non-compliance preferred supplier(s)
- Implements sourcing recommendations and develops and manages new and existing Business Process Outsourcing relationships
- Provides subject matter expertise for the above mentioned categories
- Designs and develops data capturing and reporting approaches identifying possible areas of opportunity for expense management improvement
- Should be diplomatic, flexible, and have a good team approach
- Knowledge of sourcing systems
- Work seamlessly with our clients' own resources to ensure that the solutions that are implemented will address their business requirements
- A minimum of three years related business experience
- Experience in Sourcing or any related function
- Demonstrated maturity and knowledge in this category managed
Sourcing Consultant Job Description
- Revisit the agreement and come up with better terms
- Grows the category assigned both through the addition of new national agreements, agreement expansion and Plan adoption/utilization
- Conduct intake meetings for new project assignments, effectively collecting the information necessary to target the required & desired knowledge, skills & abilities
- Conduct outreach to a variety of channels, including diversity & inclusion
- Provide regular recruiting status, project status reporting and key risks reviews with Recruitment and HR Business Partners
- Responsible for the execution and implementation of traditional, less complex sub-category sourcing strategies and ad-hoc sourcing
- Executes standardized strategic sourcing processes for assigned categories
- Focuses on innovation, process improvement and cost savings
- Participates in cross-enterprise commodity teams for categories and aggressively tracks and improves non-compliance preferred supplier(s)
- Develop trusted advisor relationships with key internal customers
- Financial acumen to drive business cases and rationalize supplier proposals
- 3 years in a Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, Procurement, or Business Analyst role ideally in E&P
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in contract management, including negotiation strategy, proposal development and processes, and benchmarking vendor proposals
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in strategic sourcing with strong background expertise in Professional Services, Master services agreements (MSA) and Statement of work (SOW) related activities
- Extensive working knowledge of Ariba, standard desktop applications
- Bilingual skills as plus
Sourcing Consultant Job Description
- Execute on tactical outreach, referral generation, events, and pipelining efforts and crafting custom outreach and meaningful candidate engagement
- Aggressively monitors, tracks and reports supplier compliance and performance benefits, reports status and trend analysis of commodity spend and savings
- Candidate should have minimum 8 years of expertise in delivering high-impact, enterprise & global scale CLM solutions
- Candidate should possess Excellent functional, business and technical skills in configuration, integration and end to end implementation/Roll outs of SAP E-Sourcing platform including RFX, e-Auctions, Contract modules and Integrations
- In-depth functional and technical expertise of SAP E-Sourcing application, specifically with configure advanced user interface customizations, workflow, custom reports design/development of custom validations for ECC/SRM integration through PI/XI for Master Data and Transactional data replications
- Candidate should have strong experience in e sourcing system build configuration activities and data loads for converting legacy data such as Vendors, Customer Data, Materials and
- Organizational Master Data for new markets and Mass data publish from e sourcing to ERP systems
- Should be able to develop custom reports and scripts to implement business logic, reporting and validations using PL/SQL and Java Classes
- Should have complete knowledge of E Sourcing to ERP & SRM interfaces and logics and validations for contracts
- Manages and analyzes departmental purchase requisitions for completeness and accuracy of information
- Must be customer focused, have excellent problem solving, organization, communication and people skills
- Familiarity and working knowledge with sourcing terminology- Boolean Searches, X-ray
- Experience with Kinaxis RapidResponse for Order Fulfillment, Master Planning & Production Scheduling, Supply Action Management, Aggregate Supply Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Planning
- 2-3 years’ experience as IT solution architect in large scale enterprises
- Significant Agile project experience preferred
- Application Architecture experience is a plus and will be required