Marketing Procurement Senior Advisor

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What We'll Bring:
At TransUnion, we have a welcoming and energetic environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. We're consistently exploring new technologies and tools to be agile. The environment gives people the opportunity to hone current skills and build new capabilities, while discovering their genius.
Come be part of our team - you'll work with great people, pioneering products and cutting-edge technology.
Global Procurement is a team of professional buyers and negotiators that acquire products and services that TransUnion requires both locally and globally. The Procurement buying teams are organized by category and commodity and are supported by IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Procurement Operations. The team also manages the relationships with vendors that supply TransUnion and also interfaces with other internal functions that oversee third party relationships such as Information Security, Accounts Payable, Finance, Legal, and Third Party Risk functions. The team manages RFI's, RFP's and Predictive Benchmarks to facilitate the bidding process. The two most important objectives in our negotiations is to protect the company and to get the best possible cost of ownership for the products and services being acquired
What You'll Bring:

• BA/BS degree or 8-10 years of equivalent experience in Strategic Sourcing, Procurement and Global Vendor Management.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of working in the Marketing category of expenditure.
• Comprehensive knowledge of sourcing and category management.
• Lead processes and projects.
• Experience with managing, negotiating vendor agreements in M&A scenarios including transition servicing agreements (TSAs)

We'd Love to See:

• CPSM, CIP certification or other related procurement certification preferred
• Advanced experience in contract terms and conditions, procurement methodologies, finance, operations, controls, negotiations, and accounting preferred.
• Ability to gather and communicate complex business requirements.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with credibility at all levels of the organization and with suppliers.
• Ability to analyze business processes related to or impacted by sourcing projects

Impact You'll Make:

• • Advanced quantitative analysis to identify financial impacts of decisions and performance for complex or newly identified categories managed. Perform business process analysis and develop models to improve cost. Collaborate with stakeholders to define SLA's for suppliers and measure the appropriate criteria, such as: delivery of business results, cost reduction, quality and timeliness of delivery. Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories.
• Experience assisting in the authoring of contract documents, including service level exhibits, statements of work, and examples. Management of contracts ensuring performance of the supplier to contract obligations. Understand interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business reasoning to interpret application of contract to business needs..
• Supplier Management: Establish segmentation of suppliers for assigned category. Create and implement related management programs to develop, continuously improve, govern, rationalize, manage the performance of, and monitor SLA's of the supply base.
• Strategy Sourcing lead, assist, and support the processes, technologies, and operations. Create sourcing strategies for assigned categories. Performs assignments independently with instruction limited to results expected.
• Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships to create strategic sourcing models that optimize the value of products and services that support business unit requirement to maintain continuous cost reduction programs for controllable expenditures. Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies. Provides solutions to a wide range of difficult problems.
• May help manage, lead, develop, and mentor related positions, such as Sourcing Analysts while working on critical projects.
• Experience leading sourcing and negotiations strategies across many different technology platforms

We're supported by flexible benefits that not only cover us but our families. We offer a variety of benefit plans and options that vary by region, country and location.• Some highlights that our U.S. associates are eligible for include:• Flexible time off for exempt associates• Tuition reimbursement• Primary parental leave of at least 16 weeks• Secondary parental leave of four weeks• Adoption assistance• Fertility planning coverage• Spousal and domestic partner benefits• Charity gift matching• Employee stock purchase plan• Retirement contributions with employer match• Access to our community of Employee Resource Groups (ERG)• ... and more
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TransUnion's Internal Job Title:
Sr Advisor, Procurement