Sourcing Manager (2022-3069)

It takes a special kind of superstar to be a Sourcing Manager. After all, this is a person who drives the execution of Cox’s sourcing strategy for our marketing-specific sourcing events. This is a person who handles the sourcing process, tackling everything from selecting a diverse suite of suppliers to helping us achieve diversity spend. This hardworking wizard keeps their team aligned and focused on the execution and results of every project. Of course, they stay amazingly focused themselves, delivering impressive savings while balancing the needs and desired results of our biz and our boundary partners.

• As you can imagine, a job title like Sourcing Manager means you’ll spend a good deal of time doing some strategic sourcing. This includes defining and executing on our sourcing work for any necessary initiatives, making sure that our security, technology, and biz requirements are clear and in place.
• You’ll also develop sourcing activities and see them through to completion, evaluate bids and pick the suppliers who will best serve our business needs.
• Help create alliances with them to establish just the right mix and balance.
• You’ll give guru-like guidance on improvement opportunities to ensure our sourcing strategy is on track and on target.
• You’ll communicate those strategies - as well as objectives and performance reports - to our senior management team and business partners. We’ll also look to you to solicit bids for requested goods.
• You’ll negotiate pricing and terms of contracts, as well as contract terms and conditions to keep risk low and satisfaction high.
• You’ll evaluate vendor performance and compliance as we prepare for renewing contracts to ensure we’re always working with the very best partners.
• You’ll also oversee contract & compliance management, as you analyze our contract usage (every six months) as well as our spend under contract, looking for ways we can up our game and shore up costs.
• You’ll maintain playbooks that log our best approaches for staying efficient. You’ll also team up with our Category Managers to assure compliance with any terms we negotiate.
• Keeping our supplier relationships strong is also essential for this gig. That means developing strategies and models that will help us evaluate supplier capabilities, while also supporting the development of those supplier capabilities.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the wonderful world of sourcing/procurement, as well as a demonstrated proficiency with the 7-step strategic sourcing process.
• You’ve got super solid skills in the realms of analytics, reporting and finances, as well as know-how around sourcing processes & best practices.
• You’re an incredibly potent problem solver, as well as a capable communicator, collaborator, negotiator, and organizer.
• You jump at opportunities, managing multiple projects without someone standing over your shoulder.
• Your reports and presentations create authentic connections with people because you’re rock solid in your written and verbal communication skills.
• You know your way around MS Office, from Visio to Excel, PPT to Word.
• You have the power of persuasion, and use it for good, helping others see the benefits of our policies and procedures so that we can all be aligned in our efforts to do our very best for Cox and our customers. 

• University degree in Business, Engineering or related field
• Project Management certification (PMP), ISM Certification, Lean or Six Sigma training
• Experience in sourcing for construction, facilities, support services, MRO and related categories.
• Knowledge of the telecommunications and automotive markets
• Experience in the use of supply chain technologies such as Oracle Procurement and eSourcing Suites for sourcing event management

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