Sourcing Foundations: Working knowledge of procurement processes such as sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, risk management, and key legal terms. Proficient knowledge of procurement processes such as RFXs, market analysis, ‘should-cost' models, and standard legal protections (i.e. confidentiality agreements)
Problem Solving & Business Acumen: Proactively identifies and addresses problems constructively and takes action to resolve.
Teamwork: Effectively influences across peer groups and management level on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership.
Project Management: Effective employment of project management tools and techniques. Ability to prioritize and redirect under pressure.
Emotional Intelligence & Influence: Ability to navigate in ambiguous environment and agile response to change. Demonstrate effective influencing skills via the ability to flex your style depending on strategy and stakeholder.
Communications: Ability to prepare clear and concise verbal, written, and visual presentations and ability to clearly communicate written and verbally to cross-functional stakeholders & management to align and implement strategy. Proactive communication to management. Links information to priorities to facilitate dialogue and decision making.
Intellectual Curiosity: Proactively identifies and engages in opportunities to expand knowledge via external benchmarking, external resources, leveraging knowledge of sourcing SMEs, and learning more about the broader business.
Other: Intermediate to Master in MS Office Suite, (including Excel pivot tables, managing complex formulas + data); also knowledgeable in BI Apps, Oracle ERS, SAP Ariba, Power BI, Tableau, or other like systems
Contracting: Working knowledge of legal terms and contracting best practices to own and partner on contracting, including preplanning, developing term sheet, and negotiating to maintain gold standard and avoiding exception-based contracting. Develop negotiation skills and style to reach a win-win deal. Works with suppliers and stakeholders to develop contracts in line with business and legal requirements and ensure both parties deliver on contractual obligations, including awareness of relevant deliverables, costs, risks, and other commitments.
Risk Management: Protects the organization by identifying, assessing, and mitigating supplier and supply chain risk. Take action to mitigate, reduce, and eliminate risk related to ethical sourcing, capacity, supplier financial, margin, and other identified risks.

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