Manager, Procurement

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What you will do
This role is a key member of the team that is responsible for the sourcing, negotiation, contracting and vendor management of all indirect spend at WW. This role will focus primarily on technology spend across various departments and categories. As a critical component of this team, you will be responsible for developing key supplier and business partner relationships and may lead projects at any point during its lifecycle (ranging from strategy development, RFx, vendor due diligence, negotiations, and vendor management).

• Lead the full strategic sourcing life-cycle from defining scope and identifying requirements to vendor evaluation, to competitive bidding, to negotiation of pricing and contract terms.
• Lead the contract review process in collaboration with legal, vendor risk team, finance, business owners and vendors.
• Support multiple business areas including, but not limited to, Technology, Product, Data Analytics, Customer Support, across multiple spend categories including professional services, software/SaaS, cloud/hosting, hardware, and telecom.
• Manage and report on vendor relationships and vendor performance against contract terms - particularly important in the technology space where many of the contracts are consumption-based and have post-contract opportunities for cost savings and optimization.
• Possible initiatives include inter-departmental categorization of tools (including previously siloed departments or business units) with goals including, but not limited to, identifying opportunities for better category mgmt/consolidation.
• Develop and lead RFXs, and manage the negotiation strategy development, overseeing or conducting the competitive negotiation process.
• Support the purchase requisition and PO process through Oracle Financials.
• Drive continuous improvement of all procurement processes to increase efficiencies and reduce costs.
• Conduct market analysis to identify potential suppliers that meet business and corporate requirements.
• Leverage industry expertise and best practices to design and implement category strategies.
• Create a roadmap to prioritize strategic sourcing project demand.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders.
• Develop executive level business cases to garner support for sourcing initiatives.

Who you are

• 5+ years Procurement and/or Strategic Sourcing experience, tech focus is preferred but not required.
• Preferred Bachelor's degree in business administration, supply chain management, or related discipline; CPSM, CPM certification or advanced degrees, e.g. MBA, J.D., etc. - also preferred.
• History managing multiple projects (~20+) simultaneously in an agile environment.
• Knowledge and experience with the seven step sourcing process.
• Experienced in contract review and negotiation including drafting and red-lining across a variety of contract types - SOWs, master services agreements, Data Processing Addendums, Business Associate Agreements.
• Comfort level reviewing legal terms and conditions in a first pass review and interfacing with in-house and vendor attorneys.
• Excellent presentation, written, and communication skills; ability to analyze and present complex issues and risk levels to senior leaders.
• Ability to handle ambiguity, issues, and challenging situations in a dynamic organization
• Experience creating and managing Sourcing RFXs
• Highly proficient with GSuite/Workspace - Google Docs and Google Sheets (including various functions, e.g. LOOKUP to facilitate data analysis).
• Experience working in a fully-remote work environment with comfort-level conducting the vast majority of meetings and intra-company communications via video conference, messaging/text, email.
• Demonstrated ability to balance workload and prioritize in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Highly motivated independent individual with a "can" do attitude and work ethic
• Ability to develop business cases including demand forecasts, category trends, accurate savings estimations, and total cost of ownership measurement is preferred.

Base salary may vary depending on, but not limited to: skills, experience, and location.
Base Salary $ 110,000/yr to 130,000/yr
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