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About the Role
The Strategic Sourcing Specialist collaborates with Strategic Sourcing Managers on Sourcing projects, including RFXs, contract management reviews, and supply chain initiatives. Key activities involve client interviews, financial analysis, and proposal modeling for communication summaries.
Responsibilities
- Develops and recommends advanced and complex strategic plans for Manager review.
- Implements strategic plans.
- Develops and recommends sourcing strategies that maximize value and mitigate risks.
- Implements sourcing strategy.
- Reviews and measures the effectiveness of the strategy.
- Leads and performs opportunities assessment activities and drives leverage across client accounts.
- Achieves improvements in operational efficiencies and cost savings.
- Executes end-to-end competitive bid process for strategic plans.
- Negotiates with suppliers to secure optimum cost and maximum value.
- Identifies and implements performance metrics to measure and improve supplier performance.
- Measures and manages supplier performance.
- Responsible for supplier performance for assigned categories and reports on supplier sustainability.
- Develops and maintains effective relationships with suppliers.
- Negotiates, develops, implements, amends and monitors supplier contractual agreements.
- Maintains in-depth and current category knowledge and knowledge of strategic sourcing best practices and industry trends.
- Provides category and strategic sourcing subject matter expertise for complex categories and/or geographic areas.
- Develops and maintains benchmarking activity for assigned categories.
- Validates vendor set up and vendor information changes.
- Performs Anti-Bribery and Corruption due diligence.
- Develops and maintains standard templates for strategic sourcing documentations.
- Ensures adherence to Company Policies, Processes and Work Instructions.
- Prepares reports including Purchase Order summary reports.
- Interacts with Operational and Finance team members to meet monthly requirements.
- Supports Sourcing team members as required.
- Performs special projects and other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in Strategic Sourcing field.
- Ability to develop and execute category management strategies and plans.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to develop and execute supplier contract agreements.
- Advanced analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to build and manage relationships with various stakeholders.
- Advanced influence, persuasion and negotiation skills.
- Has in-depth knowledge in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines.
- Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions.
- Works independently; receives minimal guidance.
- May lead projects or project steps within a broader project or have accountability for ongoing activities or objectives.
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
- May represent the level at which career may stabilize for many years or even until retirement.
- Emotionally intelligent.
- High degree of business ethics and accountability.
- High degree of client service orientation.
- Integrity.
- Positive attitude.
- Possesses a team spirit and strong collaboration.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills.
- Tenacity to overcome challenges to deliver on commitments.
Skills
- Knowledge of strategic sourcing requirements and practices.
- Advanced analytical and problem solving skills.
- Computer proficiency in MS Office applications.
- Ability to quickly learn proprietary databases.
- Advanced influence, persuasion and negotiation skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Excellent English communication skills both verbal and written.
- Facilities Management/ Property Management experience, an asset.
- French language proficiency, an asset.
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Education Level
- University graduation or professional certification
- Certified Supply Chain Management Professional (CSCMP) or equivalent Designation, is an asset.
Salary/Compensations
- $63,397 - $79,246 per annum
About the Company
- BGIS is a leading provider of customized facility management and real estate services.
- With our combined team of over 6,500 globally, we relentlessly focus on enabling innovation through the services we deliver, while actively looking for new opportunities that will enable innovation for our clients’ businesses.
- Globally, we manage over 320 million square feet of client portfolios across 30,000+ locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia.