Job Title: Sr. Sourcing Manager
Location: Seattle  WA USA 98134 (Hybrid, 3x per week)
Duration: 5 months
Job Hours: 40hr/week, PST  hours.
 
Possibility for Extension or conversion:  
 
Daily Responsibilities:
Shaping the Business

• Strategy: Develops, owns, and executes effective, comprehensive multi-year category sourcing strategies that enable bottom-line and top-line company growth, through the incorporation of data-driven insights, stakeholder needs, and business objectives. Strategies shape stakeholder thinking. Strategies shall address corporate social responsibility as it pertains to supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, and sustainability, where applicable. Has previous experience managing more than one type of category/industry, stakeholders, and suppliers.
• Portfolio Management: Effectively manages the portfolio of projects and deadlines. Independently solves problems and make decisions to ensure successful execution of the project. Provides oversight, guidance, and drives completion of project plans. Documents post-mortems when necessary. Provide oversight, guidance and drives execution of project plans.
• Business Case Development: Creates business cases to drive sourcing strategies/initiatives that present the opportunity to shape the business. Obtains alignment for ideas by creating detailed and workable proposals, considering strategic, commercial, economic, financial, and organizational impacts.

Drive Value

• Value Stewardship: Consistently build a value pipeline and execute plans by leveraging relationships with stakeholders and suppliers to identify and drive value. Deep knowledge of category and supplier spend, as well as the key cost drivers of the product/service. Evaluate market trends and key cost drivers to identify, implement and track cost savings. Leverage the value analysis insights and incorporate them into strategies for implementation. Analyze complex supplier proposals and use decision-making tools and models including financial and non-financial criteria to facilitate award recommendations. Value is defined as cost savings, supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, innovation, and margin protection.
• Supplier Management & Collaboration: Management of strategic and preferred suppliers. Cultivate partnerships with new and existing suppliers through the lens of Client values, generating trust and transparency, in order to maximize mutual value and reduce risk. Professionally lead supplier key business reviews which demonstrate supplier growth and improvement, execute corrective action plans (as needed), and coach suppliers on understanding our business better.
• Supplier Enabled Innovation Management: Actively identifies and capitalizes on opportunities to match supplier's capabilities with internal business needs. Influence internal stakeholders to proactively engage with the suppliers on innovative concepts.

Protect Supply and Reduce Risk

• Contracting: Proficient knowledge to independently own and lead contracting, including preplanning, developing term sheet, and negotiating to maintain gold standard and avoiding exception-based contracting. Skilled negotiation savvy and approaches supplier 'we' mindset. Works with suppliers and stakeholders to develop contracts in line with business and legal requirements and ensure both parties deliver on contractual obligations, including awareness of relevant deliverables, costs, risks, and other commitments.
• Risk Management: Protects the organization by identifying, assessing, and mitigating supplier and supply chain risk. Take action to mitigate, reduce, and eliminate risk related to ethical sourcing, capacity, supplier financial, margin, and other identified risks. Instinctively balances risk and certainty.

 
Interaction level with team:

• Highly interactive
• High volume of meetings

Cross functional with a variety of teams and external suppliers to help ensure and move along the process where needed while keeping all parties aligned and moving towards the completion


Technology requirements?:

• SmartSheets
• Intermediate to Master in MS Office Suite, (including Excel pivot tables, managing complex formulas + data)
• (Nice to have, can be trained on) also knowledgeable in BI Apps, Oracle ERS, SAP Ariba, Power BI, Tableau, or other like systems.

Degree or certifications required?:

•  Degree required, 4 years degree in a relevant field

 
Years experience?:

• 6-10 years of experience, The more experience the better

 
Required background? Skills?

• Understanding cost structure
• Business savvy, ability to validate and benchmark as needed
• Food or similar experience
• Sourcing Foundations: Intermediate knowledge of procurement processes such as category sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, risk management, and key legal terms. Expert knowledge of procurement processes such as RFXs, market analysis, ‘should-cost’ models, and standard legal protections (i.e. confidentiality agreements). Helps other sourcing partners succeed through knowledge sharing of key sourcing foundations.
• Problem Solving & Business Acumen: Proactively identifies and addresses problems constructively and takes action to resolve.
• Teamwork: Effectively influences across peer groups and senior management level on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership.
• Project Management: Highly effective employment of project management tools and techniques. Ability to prioritize and redirect under pressure. Proactively mitigates situations before they become issues.
• Emotional Intelligence & Influence: Ability to lead in an ambiguous environment and agile response to change. Demonstrate effective influencing skills via the ability to flex your style depending on strategy and stakeholder.
• Communications: Ability to prepare clear and concise verbal, written, and visual presentations effectively utilizing storytelling techniques and ability to clearly communicate written and verbally to cross-functional stakeholders & senior management to align and implement strategy. Proactive communication to management.
• Intellectual Curiosity: Proactively identifies and engages in opportunities to expand knowledge via external benchmarking, external resources, further education (i.e. certificates), learning more about the broader business, attending conferences, etc. Applying learnings and shares learnings broadly with peers.

 
Nice-to-Haves:

• Food background
• Someone who’s worked in a large highly matrixed company similar to Client
• Prior Client exp in a similar sourcing manager compacity  

  

About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
 
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LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $65.27/hr.