Indirect Sourcing Manager

Give hope. Give health. Make your mark in the fight against cancer.

At Accuray, we make a direct and powerful impact on the lives of cancer patients every day — helping them live longer, better lives. But our commitment to innovation offers a truly unique opportunity: the chance to change the fight against cancer — helping to develop, introduce and support new treatment delivery systems and software that will give new hope and new health to cancer patients and cancer survivors around the world.

Accuray develops, manufactures and sells radiotherapy systems for alternative cancer treatments. Our radiation therapy for cancer makes treatment shorter, safer, personalized and more effective, ultimately enabling patients to live longer, better lives.

Summary

Job Description

This position is responsible for managing indirect sourcing activities and processes across Accuray. This person will be responsible for coordinating and driving cost control efforts on all Indirect OPEX spend buckets and managing overall COGS productivity efforts. As a key member of the GSC leadership team, this individual will support process excellence and process compliance efforts as needed.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Accountable for owning indirect sourcing activities across Accuray.
• Develops and delivers on annual plan and areas of concentration for cost reduction for indirect material, as well as the consolidation of corporate services.
• Optimizes indirect spend processes and establishes governance for indirect procurement activities across Accuray.
• For all indirect spend, ensures corporate integration of cost controls and policy compliance, leads cross-functional collaboration, develops and maintains strong supplier relationships, provides negotiation support, and manages the overall corporate indirect spend.
• Supports cross-functional departments with supplier negotiation, contract execution, purchase requisition training for services and indirect material spend. Drives cross-functional project implementation, controls, and training for indirect material sourcing activities, as well as providing related corporate-wide communication and direction.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to develop a pipeline for future projects for OPEX services and indirect spend.
• Effectively collaborates to leverage the Company's ERP functionality as it relates to supply chain and logistics processes, as well as supplier performance by developing KPIs and dashboards that provide business intelligence.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Required
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Business Management or another related field.
• Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in Supply Chain, Finance, business process, or data integration industries.
• Ability to effectively navigate formal and informal communication and decision-making channels across all levels of a matrixed organization to deliver results.
• Ability to work on multiple, concurrent issues of diverse scope with diverse project teams of varying size.
• Ability to develop and deliver clear, crisp communications (written and verbal) that are customized to the needs of different audiences, ensuring timely and relevant communication.
• Highly effective in core competencies linked to the CEO Mindset to include team collaboration, professional presence, self-awareness, communications, continuous improvement/change agent, decision making, engagement, accountability, and financial discipline.
• Strong business acumen, organizational skills, project execution skills, influencing and communication skills.
• Ability to see the big picture and able to synthesize, analyze, and draw insights from large data sets to inform the best path forward.
• Strong business curiosity, understanding of the full Integrated Supply Chain and business operations, with the ability to be change agent.
• Some travel, domestic, may be required.
• Preferred or Desired
• PMP, APICS, LEAN, Six Sigma Certification and/or advanced degree, such as MBA.
• Experience managing projects involving external collaborators within multicultural, cross business units, different time zones and or countries.
• Industry experience and knowledge of medical device and regulatory standards.
• Demonstrated performance for delivering high profile, productive, and profitable project solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with leading people.
  
  
  

To qualify for this position, candidates must be able to furnish proof that they are authorized to work in the country they are applying on a permanent basis without sponsorship.

EEO Statement

At Accuray, our commitment to patient-first outcomes drives an inclusive and collaborative work environment where the best ideas rise to the top — and everyone works to push them further. We value diversity in both the professional and personal backgrounds of our employees, as this variety adds rich energy to every team, every project and every work day. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin – including individuals with disabilities and veterans.