Sourcing Consultant

About the role

Role responsibilities

• Develop strategic sourcing and supplier strategies and lead negotiations for medium- to high-risk products and services.
• Review, draft, and negotiate master agreements, statements of work, change orders, amendments, and similar contracts.
• Customize non-standard contract terms to address business and risk concerns.
• Analyze contract data, business goals, and market conditions to find cost-saving opportunities.
• Support RFx activities, selection criteria, opportunity evaluation, and reverse auctions with business groups.
• Establish supplier evaluation and selection criteria and coordinate supplier due diligence.
• Research vendor contracts for existing relationships, rights, risks, and obligations; identify and escalate risk issues and alternatives.
• Maintain active engagement information in Strategic Sourcing systems and ensure compliance with internal contract policies.
• Ensure contracts define each party's rights and responsibilities and meet legal and regulatory requirements, including data protection.
• Conduct quality checks on transactional documents.
• Meet performance measures, build policy and procedure expertise, collaborate with colleagues and managers, lead projects or teams or mentor, and respond to inquiries.

Required qualification

• At least 2 years of sourcing experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.

Desired qualifications

• Supply chain management experience; exposure to IT and Telecom; cross-category experience preferred.
• Knowledge of contract drafting and vendor legal terms, strong commercial negotiation experience, and ability to communicate decisions to senior management are desired.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, networking, and negotiation skills are desired.

Risk and compliance expectations