What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Sourcing Lead - Marketing position at GEP?
Company Overview
GEP is a diverse, creative team of people passionate about procurement. We invest ourselves entirely in our client’s success, creating strong collaborative relationships that deliver extraordinary value year after year. Our clients include market global leaders with far-flung international operations, Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, leading government and public institutions.
We deliver practical, effective services and software that enable procurement leaders to maximise their impact on business operations, strategy and financial performance. That’s just some of the things that we do in our quest to build a beautiful company, enjoy the journey and make a difference. GEP is a place where individuality is prized, and talent respected. We’re focused on what is real and effective. GEP is where good ideas and great people are recognized, results matter, and ability and hard work drive achievements. We’re a learning organization, actively looking for people to help shape, grow and continually improve us.
Are you one of us?
GEP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We are committed to hiring and valuing a global diverse work team. GEP is proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.
For more information please visit us on GEP.com or check us out on LinkedIn.com.
What you will do
As a Senior Sourcing Lead, you will utilize your sourcing expertise for leading the creation, management and execution of the sourcing strategy for the Marketing category (Advertising, digital marketing, creative agencies, Marketing Technology), at a Fortune-ranked company. As you partner with our internal team and client stakeholders to ensure we can meet project goals with clients, you will also be mentoring and directing resources across our engagement.
You will utilize your strategic sourcing skills to complete the following responsibilities:
- Execute Complex and strategic sourcing projects of categories/sub-categories to include: translating business requirements into clear statements of Work, solicits bids, leads auctions.
- Prepare negotiation scripts and negotiate with suppliers, make recommendations, help on-board, qualify and contract with new vendor and ensure compliance
- Apply and translate business expertise to breakthrough thinking that significantly impacts the clients long-term strategic position, thought leaders.
- Manage and optimize functional sourcing support activities while ensuring adherence to clients corporate standards. Provide necessary information input to enablement group
- Engage with internal & external business partners to ensure that decisions are based on the broad scope of the organization and achieve optimum daily execution
- Manage project allocation, support team members during kick off meeting and share best practices
- Monitor performance satisfaction, ensuring all SLAs accountable for are met and drive continuous improvement initiatives, participate in recruitment
What you should bring
Key Requirements/Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree required with Minimum 4 years of experience in Procurement (atleast 2 years in procurement of marketing category- Digital and creative agencies, Advertising, Traditional & Print and Marketing Technology)
- Advanced analytical, reporting and presentation skills i.e. regarding creating baselines, performing market tests/analyses, summarizing the key points succinctly by email/in presentations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to negotiate effectively with suppliers/vendors
- Multi-tasking as needed to manage various procurement projects/tasks at once while partnering with various stakeholders
- Ability to lead and manage meetings effectively and communicate with all levels of management at our client organization
Key Skills:
- High degree of motivation, the ability to prioritize and overcome obstacles
- Ability to prioritize and self-direct
- Excellent communication, analytical, negotiation and problem-solving skills
- Ability to adapt to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers
- Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
