Procurement & Strategy Manager III, Global Supply Chain & Transportation Procurement

Key job responsibilities

Negotiation: Leading complex, multi-party negotiations to deliver improved financial performance; structures multi-year partnerships balancing cost efficiency, service quality, and capacity assurance.

Market Intelligence & Cost Development: Conducting market research to develop rate benchmarks and should-cost models; translating market conditions and capacity trends into defensible negotiation targets and data-driven cost positions for internal stakeholders.

Subject Matter Expertise & Leadership: Serving as a strategic advisor to internal stakeholders and leadership - proactively shaping business requirements and translating them into vendor strategy, market positioning, and negotiation approaches. Actively develops other procurement specialists through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and negotiation coaching.

Strategy: Execute and define transportation procurement strategy that complements network design and operations strategy with limited oversight; develop scalable frameworks for vendor evaluation, performance management, and relationship governance.

AI & Automation: Scale and implement AI tools and workflows across GSCTP's procurement operations. Champion adoption of the AI toolkit by configuring solutions for team use cases and driving utilization that accelerates decision-making and improves negotiation outcomes. Encouraged to experiment with and create new AI tools or workflows that drive efficiency, quality, or speed within procurement operations.

Bias for Action: Drive complex, multi-stakeholder sourcing initiatives to completion; actively mitigate risks through contract structures and vendor diversification; maintain momentum through obstacles and ambiguity.

Communication: Primary author of strategic sourcing narratives (vendor evaluations, contract summaries, leadership updates); trusted to present recommendations to VPs and build consensus across cross-functional stakeholder teams.

Technical Problem Solving: Navigating complex challenges across the full procurement cycle, from sourcing and negotiations through legal requirements and systems integration, ensuring contract structures align with technical system constraints to deliver scalable, executable agreements.

About the team

Global team responsible for procurement-related activities which include supporting and/or leading mid-to-large scale strategic sourcing events and complex contract negotiations with cross-organizational impact. Works closely with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and to ensure that all supplier related activities meet cost, capacity and service goals.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of procurement experience
• 5+ years of working cross functionally across several teams experience
• 5+ years of using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze large sets of data experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience developing or utilizing AI tools, automation platforms, or data-driven technologies to improve procurement or supply chain workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree
• 5+ years of transportation and supply chain experience
• Experience negotiating complex, multi-year logistics agreements with major carriers or logistics service providers
• Demonstrated experience developing or scaling AI/automation tools in a procurement or supply chain context