Senior Strategic Procurement Analyst

Skills

• Strategic sourcing
• Procurement
• Supply chain management
• Leadership
• Teamwork
• Collaboration
• Problem solving
• Communication
• Training
• Project management
• Business analysis
• Vendor management
• Contract administration
• Performance evaluation
• Grievance resolution

Responsibilities

• Onboard new external partners, ensuring they meet quality, cost, and compliance requirements.
• Lead supplier selection process, negotiate contracts, and manage supplier relationships to ensure favorable terms and conditions.
• Maintain current and future external partnerships performance criteria as outlined in the contract and tracks such criteria, against actual performance.
• Evaluate the knowledge and skill levels of the current and future external partnerships staffing to ensure performance levels are meeting and exceeding standards needed to accomplish GEHA’s business requirements.
• Prepare analysis to evaluate partner’s contract performance for use in approval of monthly invoices.
• Manage grievances and partner relation issues as needed and involves the Director when issues become larger.
• Provides proper training for the current and future external partnerships on new GEHA processes, and any additional training needed on existing processes.
• Monitors current and future external partnerships recruitment to ensure current and future external partnerships has proper staffing for supporting and maintaining GEHA’s business requirements.
• Works with manager to design metrics and processes to ensure partner relationships are consistently reviewed and managed.
• Works with executives to determine and analyze new vendor relationships to determine the best partner by managing the RFP process end to end.
• Builds RFP process end to end that can be used for all contracts including how often contracts need to be renewed, can be signed for, etc.
• Other miscellaneous projects, as assigned.

Qualifications

• 6-9 years of experience with demonstrated knowledge and skill in strategic sourcing, procurement or supply chain management.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Proven track record of developing and implementing strategic sourcing strategies that drive costs savings and process improvements.
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to effectively communicate with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Proficiency in using sourcing tools and software applications.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills necessary to perform supervisory/lead and training duties.
• Business Analysis experience identifying business needs and determining solutions.
• Project management skills and ability to adapt to plans and priorities to address business needs.
• Knowledge of GEHA Affirmative Action Policy and ability to make decisions regarding promotion and termination of employees that comply with its principles.

Benefits

• Competitive pay/salary ranges
• Incentive plan
• Health/Vision/Dental benefits effective day one
• 401(k) retirement plan: company match – dollar for dollar up to 4% employee contribution (pretax or Roth options) plus a 6% annual company contribution
• Robust employee well-being program
• Paid Time Off
• Personal Community Enrichment Time
• Company-provided Basic Life and AD&D
• Company-provided Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Assistance Program

Work Environment

• Remote opportunity
• Hybrid and work-from-home options for many of our roles