Description
We are seeking a Logistics Sourcing Manager to join our team. As a Logistics Sourcing Manager, you will be responsible for managing commodities/categories worldwide, including goods and services that support the company and its customers.
Responsibilities:
- Leads a complex supply chain category, including data and industry analysis, and reports results to business executives.
- Leads a complex, international, cross-functional team.
- Meets with stakeholder business executives to discuss the impact of supply chain strategic development on overall business and develops forward-thinking supply chain strategies.
- Develops and utilizes supply chain, business, and financial modeling tools.
- Leads complex supplier selection activities.
- Drives supply base optimization for complex categories.
- Negotiates and completes contracts with highly complex and critical suppliers.
- Responsible for day-to-day operations of the most complex, long-term suppliers.
- Partners with suppliers in forward-thinking strategic development and relationship building.
- Develops strategies for risk mitigation, business continuity, cost management, and operations improvement.
- Innovates complex business models, drives associated strategies, and influences the marketplace.
- Identifies complex or emerging contract risk areas.
- Negotiates acceptable contracting outcomes using custom solutions.
- Advises executive-level business leaders on all contract risk areas.
Education and Experience Required:
- First-level university degree or equivalent experience; advanced university degree preferred.
- Typically 10+ years of experience in procurement or supply chain function.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Excellent understanding of global procurement processes, industry, and highly complex suppliers.
- Advanced analytical skills.
- Advanced business application skills (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint) and supply chain modeling skills.
- Drives development and efficiency of procurement tools and applications.
- Advanced communication skills, including presentation and negotiation abilities.
- Strong program management skills, incorporating multiple projects.
- Advanced team leadership and influencing skills.
- Mastery in English and local language.
- Ability to independently draft legal contractual documents.
- Applies cause-and-effect thinking to identify complex or emerging contract risk areas.
- Capable of independently drafting custom contract solutions to obtain acceptable outcomes.
- Subject matter expertise on known and emerging contracting principles.
- Ability to close complex deals in a timely fashion.
- Advanced ability to develop suppliers strategically.
- Excellent understanding of the company.
What We Can Offer You:
- Health & Wellbeing: We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
- Personal & Professional Development: We invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are.
- Unconditional Inclusion: We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness.