Job Posting for Strategic Sourcing Manager at Workato

Responsibilities

This is a great time to join the newly formed Procurement Organization. The Strategic Sourcing Manager will serve as the category expert within the Procurement Team and will be responsible for creating and driving strategic sourcing and demand management initiatives across all Workato’s spend categories, with special focus on Technology and Marketing.

This role has company-wide responsibilities for identifying, quantifying, prioritizing, and executing sourcing strategies that align with the organization’s strategic direction and cost savings targets. You will also be responsible for:

Develop and maintain business relationships with internal customers and suppliers. Execute on all aspects of strategic sourcing and procurement within the organization from opportunity assessment, negotiations, RFx, supplier relationship and risk management.
Create and implement sourcing and demand management strategies across Workato’s spend categories. Internal customer/Category groups will include but not limited to IT, Engineering and Marketing. Manage the development of RFx materials, detailed analysis of proposals and vendor capabilities, negotiations and supplier selection. Leverage key metrics to identify problem areas and adopt current and emerging business models with an entrepreneurial mindset and creative, out of the box approach to driving best practice.
Build and manage relationships with priority business executives to support implementation of business strategies through advanced procurement initiatives and team alignment. Facilitate the entire sourcing process and closely collaborate with business unit heads to select and award business to suppliers.
Act as procurement subject matter expert in consulting with the business to identify, develop and deploy best practice procurement, category management and supplier management
Support the functions long-term strategic planning efforts for sourcing and supplier management, including advanced multi-year category strategies designed to anticipate enterprise-wide requirements while optimizing forecasted shifts in both supply markets, industry trends and supplier economic cycles.
Lead the development and negotiation of contracts with new suppliers and/or the renegotiation of existing contracts to accomplish lowest total cost of ownership and meet savings objectives.
Continuously look for process efficiencies that allow the Sourcing team to scale to support company growth.
Build policies, templates, workflows and processes around all sourcing and procurement activities.
Support the Procurement Leadership by providing timely and accurate assistance on relevant topics and initiatives as required.
Detail orientation with an ability to think strategically and make recommendations

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Accounting and/or Mathematics.
4 years’ experience in a strategic sourcing role with expertise in influencing business strategy and vendor relations
Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Accounting and/or Mathematics.
Advanced analytical ability including cost modeling, TCO analysis, and spend/savings analysis in support of decision-making and reporting purposes.
Superior negotiation skills, developed through significant corporate sourcing hands-on experience
Excellent analytical, verbal and written skills with a high attention to detail
Excellent internal relationship building skills – your ability to partner with other parts of the organization will be critical to your success
Strong influencing skills that can be used to build partnerships with internal resources
A ‘can do’ attitude to work that needs to get done as part of a high-growth company. Driven individual with analytical approach and high degree of personal organization and a strong passion to succeed in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited four-year college or university
Experience with procurement software (including systems such as Coupa, Netsuite & CLM platforms), approval workflows, purchasing policy development, and contracts
Prior experience managing diverse stakeholder interests and expectations
Knowledgeable in working with tools including Word, Excel, ERP systems, and contract management tools
Experience in negotiating enterprise software deals and drafting managed services contracts.
Experience formulating methods to develop and analyze various category portfolios, including market price benchmarking and total cost analysis

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