Senior Sourcing Specialist- Indirect

Responsibilities

• Create sourcing strategies for assigned categories to reduce risk and meet targets for the purchasing department including but not limited to payment terms, cash targets, and cost savings
• Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships to create strategic sourcing models that optimize the value of products and services that support business unit requirements to maintain continuous cost reduction programs for controllable expenditures.
• Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies.
• Provide solutions to a wide range of difficult problems.
• Successfully partner across functions and with senior internal stakeholders and external suppliers to drive results, influence others and facilitate change management across the company.
• Responsible for advanced quantitative analysis to identify financial impacts of decisions and performance for category managed. Perform business process analysis and develop models to improve cost.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define SLAs and KPIs for suppliers and measure the appropriate criteria, such as delivery of business results, cost reduction, quality, and timeliness of delivery.
• Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories.
• Manage preferred suppliers for assigned categories. Create and implement related management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base.
• Tactical Purchasing - Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices related to assigned categories.
• Develop and lead efforts to reduce the number of transactions for assigned categories.

Requirements

• Advanced degree and 3+ years of experience working in one or more of the following; or bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience working in one or more of the following: Engineering, Purchasing, Contract negotiation, Material or production planning, Operations or supply chain management, Material cost control
• Experience in a purchasing or supply chain role
• Technical skills in current technologies and applications (e.g. MS Office Suite, SQL, PowerBI, etc.)
• Experience with Construction, Facilities or Contingent Labor
• Exceptional analytical and organizational skills
• Remarkable problem-solving skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with a strong ability to communicate with all levels of internal personnel
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and able to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment
• Ability to conduct all activities with the highest integrity

Qualifications

• Advanced degree and 3+ years of experience working in one or more of the following; or bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience working in one or more of the following: Engineering, Purchasing, Contract negotiation, Material or production planning, Operations or supply chain management, Material cost control
• Experience in a purchasing or supply chain role
• Technical skills in current technologies and applications (e.g. MS Office Suite, SQL, PowerBI, etc.)
• Experience with Construction, Facilities or Contingent Labor

Skills

• Technical skills in current technologies and applications (e.g. MS Office Suite, SQL, PowerBI, etc.)
• Experience with Construction, Facilities or Contingent Labor

Benefits

Annual Base Salary: $90,000 - $115,000

Benefits: Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

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