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The procurement team manages non-publisher third party vendors on behalf of the company, working closely with global business stakeholders, Legal, Finance and leadership to create value.

Job description:

Role reports to the Head of Procurement
This role will lead non-IT categories and develop stakeholder relationships and purchasing strategies. Category ownership may include, based on experience:
- Marketing
- HR
- Professional Services
- Facilities
- Travel
- Meetings & Events

This role will own all vendor agreements and purchasing procedures for their designated spend area
This role will interface with key business partners and management in Marketing, HR, Finance and Legal

Key Responsibilities Include:

Guide the company throughout the Procure to Pay process including Sourcing, Contracting, Opening Purchase Requests, and matching Payments
- Troubleshoot Procure to Pay issues on a daily basis, working closely with Legal, Accounting, FP&A, Treasury and AP
Develop on-going category strategy for non-IT (Marketing, HR, etc.) categories
- Maintain spend category profile
- Foster stakeholder relationships and develop pipeline
- Proactively understand business partner vendor needs, work together to build constant improvement processes, measure SLA’s and improve customer experience
Support all ad-hoc contracting requests, manage renewals, and monitor contracting needs
- Review and redline contracts for financial and commercial risks
- Fully understand commercial agreements, including impact of commercial terms and required escalation points to Privacy, Security and Legal
- Accurately identify best contract templates to use in each situation
- Quickly process high volume of quick-turn marketing agreements, balancing fast service on simple agreements with escalation of large risks
- Negotiate commercial and payment terms
- Streamline inefficient contracting issues; identify vendor MSA and consolidation opportunities
Conduct and own individual sourcing projects from beginning to end including:
- Create baselines from diverse and incomplete data sets
- Work with stakeholders in the business function, Finance, Legal and other areas to gather category information
- Create project teams and project management documents
- Opportunity assessments and benchmark analysis
- Determine sourcing strategy including RFP, RFI, multi-supplier quote, incumbent negotiations
- Create and manage the Go-To-Market strategy including advising stakeholders on competitive sourcing vs. incumbent negotiations
- Analyze sourcing results including scenario analysis
- Define and report savings to Finance and management
Contribute to a global team including:
- Contribute to standardized savings reporting and management reports
- Participate in global process building for a new and growing department
- Help build and align to global sourcing and purchasing standards

Winning factors - what we are looking for?

3-5 Years in a relevant Procurement, Strategic Sourcing or Purchasing role
Fluent in English, with ability to balance global and local requirements
Contracting experience with standard legal templates, redlining protocol, understanding all aspects of business agreements
Non-IT Category experience, particularly Marketing agreements including sponsorships, events, media buys, and subscriptions
Excellent project management skills
Written, oral and interpersonal communication skills; ability to create an environment of teamwork across stakeholder groups
Data modeling and data analytics
Excel proficient: formulas, pivot tables, lookups
Documentation ability, including project plans, timelines, process flows, SOP’s
Powerpoint