Sr Sourcing Manager (Remote) - Ameripride Services, Inc

Description

Overview

The Senior Sourcing/Category Manager holds a pivotal role in driving comprehensive category leadership. This entails the crucial task of defining and articulating a cohesive Sourcing strategy for the category, fostering, and expanding strategic partnerships with suppliers, and delivering strategic financial and operational value throughout the organization. This position is instrumental in several critical business processes and necessitates extensive cross-functional collaboration with teams and regions. Moreover, it carries the responsibility of overseeing a significant annual spend of at least $120 million, with expectations of substantial growth in line with the organization's growth plans.

Responsibilities

• Own overall strategy for specific product category(s), including supplier relationships, supplier performance management (QBR), supplier sourcing strategies, and new product introductions.
• Develop and deliver long term sourcing strategies, lead key initiatives with cross-functional teams; drive the decision-making process of the category roadmap with leadership.
• Drive commercial relationships with suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving optimal cost and performance.
• Lead supplier performance management business reviews to highlight best practices and opportunities, including improving sustainability & social responsibility.
• Manage end-to-end RFI/RFQ/RFP process in partnership with key stakeholders to increase operational efficiencies, identify and partner with the best suppliers, and maximize value creation for the company.

• Drive end-to-end contract negotiations to achieve favorable contract terms and agreements to eliminate or minimize risk exposure and enforce supplier accountability.
• Analyzing contract documents to determine contractual obligations, preparing recommendations regarding acceptance or modifications.
• Ability to analyze data, draw reasonable conclusions, make recommendations and to communicate analysis to all levels of the organization.
• Develop reporting frameworks and tools to effectively communicate sourcing status, supplier performance, value creation (i.e., savings), to applicable cross-functional stakeholders.
• Understand and follow relevant market trends impactful to business. Identify product expansion and new product introduction opportunities.
• Coordinate and collaborate with local teams to deploy and manage the implementation of your defined strategies.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of supply chain sourcing experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Significant experience in conducting supplier RFI, RFP, supplier selection, and supplier performance management.
• Ability to plan and lead negotiations with input from multiple internal stakeholders

Benefits: Vestis offers a wide array of comprehensive benefit programs and services including medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, and paid parental leave. Employees are able to enroll in the company’s 401k plan. Employees are eligible for 80 hours of vacation, 16 hours of floating holidays, and paid sick time every year. Employees will also receive 9 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

Compensation: The salary for this position ranges from $120,000 to $145,000, depending on circumstances including an applicant’s skills and qualifications, certain degrees and certifications, prior job experience, market data, and other relevant factors.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)