Sr. Sourcing Specialist, Construction

Responsibilities

• Work directly with key internal stakeholders to develop and implement a comprehensive contract management process that ensures a successful project execution cycle.
• 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.
• Identify and execute cost reduction projects, including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, estimating completion, and project updates.
• Perform advanced quantitative and business process analyses to identify financial impacts of decisions, cost improvement, and performance for assigned categories.
• 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.
• Create contract documents in collaboration with the legal department.
• Manage contracts to ensure the performance of the supplier to contract obligations.
• Understand interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business reasoning to interpret application of contract to business needs.
• Maximize value and cost savings benefits while lowering risk through strategic negotiations.
• Identify and drive year over year cost optimization through reducing usage and eliminating waste within our operations.
• Create and implement management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base.
• Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices related to assigned categories.
• Develop and lead efforts to reduce number of transactions and for assigned categories.

Basics Qualifications

• Advanced degree; or bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of experience working in one or more of the following; or 6+ years of experience working in one or more of the following:
• Engineering
• Supply Chain
• Purchasing
• Contract negotiation
• Material or production planning
• Operations management
• Material cost control
• Master production scheduling

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Construction project management experience and/or construction cost estimate experience
• Familiarity or experience in purchasing or similar procurement related experience
• Experience in industrial engineering, construction management, and/or facilities management
• Strong budget tracking and cost analytical skills
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Experience managing large scale industrial and commercial construction projects
• Strong contract negotiation and document management skills
• Remarkable problem-solving skills with a bias for speed
• Quick learner and ability to prioritize appropriately to meet customer and company needs
• Excellent customer service skills
• Effective written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Exceptional analytical and organizational skills
• Strong technical knowledge and skills in current technologies and applications (e.g. MS Office Suite, SQL, PowerBI, etc.)
• Able to conduct all activities with the highest degree of integrity
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated and able to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment

Additional Requirements

• Must be able to travel - up to 20% work week travel may be required
• Must be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to meet major milestones
• This position is based in Hawthorne, CA and requires being onsite - remote work not considered