Sourcing Manager

What they do

• Manage the company's supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending.
• Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies.
• Analyze and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.
• Invent negotiation strategies and secure profitable deals.
• Optimize sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency.
• Cooperate with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes.
• Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers.
• Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
• Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques.
• Discover and partner with trustworthy vendors and suppliers.
• Determine quantity and timing of deliveries.

Qualifications

• Proven work experience as a sourcing manager or procurement manager.
• Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management and relevant software.
• Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement.
• Strong project management and leadership skills.
• Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.
• Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data.
• Solid judgement with ability to make good decisions.
• BSc degree in supply chain management, logistics or business administration.