Strategic Sourcing Manager

22 Sep 2024

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Title :

Strategic Sourcing Manager

Location : Palo Alto, CA

Duration : 6 Months

Rate : Open

Visa status : Any

Duties:

About the job Our Team, Global Procurement, focuses on providing industry leading Procurement Operations and Strategic Sourcing on a global scale at Rubrik. We are looking to add a Strategic Sourcing Manager (Contractor) to our growing team based at Rubik's headquarters in Palo Alto, California. You will negotiate contracts, analyze commercial terms, and optimize pricing across an assigned category of indirect spend - IT, Marketing, Services, and G&A including HR, Facilities, etc. You’ll also develop a category strategy and leverage market intelligence to develop new supply sources. You’ll have experience in best-practice procurement methods, and work to build strong partnerships with internal customers, influence and align roadmaps, and cultivate vendor partnerships. You will work closely with a variety of cross-functional teams including Marketing, IT, Legal, Finance, Accounting, among others. You are someone who is a self-starter and comfortable working with limited direction while taking full ownership of your domain. You are an effective and passionate problem-solver, who recommends pragmatic alternatives and is comfortable working in a fast-paced and high growth environment. Position located in Palo Alto, CA.

What You'll Be Doing:
  • Craft negotiation strategies and execute favorable terms and conditions
  • Develop & drive key category strategy and optimization opportunities across Client's Engineering function
  • Prepare RFQs, RFPs, bid documents, analyze and evaluate proposals, and administer the evaluation process
  • Provide thought leadership from a procurement/sourcing perspective and work with business partners to develop new and creative strategies
  • Manage the commercial aspects of contracts and license agreements to ensure that obligations are met and the process for tracking renewals or replacement of existing agreements is managed and scalable
Join a high-performing team responsible for driving key sourcing objectives such as hard savings/cost avoidance, and other value-add activities
  • Build strategic relationships with external suppliers and internal business partners to drive results and influence business decisions
  • Contribute input toward the creation and implementation of programs to assess and promote supplier performance, development and management (e.g., establishing quarterly and annual goals, conducting quarterly business reviews, formal scorecard measures)
  • Establish & report out on KPIs within your category that support Rubrik goals and objectives

Skills:
  • Excellent commercial negotiation skills and broad procurement category management experience
  • 5+ years’ experience in Indirect Sourcing, with a strong track record in a technical sourcing category (e.g. Engineering, Technology) in a highly dynamic and fast-paced environment
  • Excellent customer service skills and ability to partner with key stakeholders and build relationships across multi-functional teams
  • Strong financial and analytical skills, supporting identification of cost savings opportunities and recommendations
  • Self-starting, entrepreneurial, scrappy, resourceful, problem-solver with a strong work ethic and integrity

  • ID: #45899131
  • State: California Paloalto 94301 Paloalto USA
  • City: Paloalto
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2022-09-22
  • Deadline: 2022-11-19
  • Category: Et cetera