Senior Sourcing Manager, Indirect Procurement

Job Title: Senior Sourcing Manager, Indirect Procurement
Job Location: Louisville, CO
Job Duration: 4 months
Hybrid 3 days onsite

Description:
As part of the North America Cycles and Procurement team the primary purpose of this position is to manage purchasing activities related to Professional Services for **** US and Canada as well as Nutricia.
This position requires proven sourcing skills and effective cross functional project leadership, negotiation, collaboration, analytical and communication skills. Experience in professional services (Human Resources, Real Estate, Travel & Expenses, Information Systems-Information Technology) and Topline (Marketing & Advertising), and Transportation & Warehousing, will be an valuable.
This role will handle the same responsibilities as a Senior Sourcing Manager at ****. You will act as steward in developing and implementing sourcing strategies for Professional Services and Topline categories as well as lead key communications & objective setting meetings with business stakeholders.

Responsibilities:
Driving sourcing activities, which may include but are not limited to:

• Refrigerated Warehousing with 3PL’s, Over the Road Transportation, Pallets
• Creative Marketing and Advertising Agencies, Outsourced Sales Services
• CAPEX, MRO, Spare Parts, Sundries
• Human Resource (HR) services: Benefits, Temporary Labor, Recruitment, Domestic Relocation Real Estate: Leasing of office and warehouse space
• Travel & Expenses
• Meetings & Events
• Courier & Office Services
• ISIT: Supporting resilience, digital transformation, and core system integration and automation priorities
• Analyzing current needs and practices in place, market research and industry benchmarking
• Conducting market studies to identify new suppliers / opportunities and develop a robust supplier base
• Collaboration and partnership with internal stakeholders to identify opportunities to support a service as a benefit mindset to
• Defining, aligning, and executing category sourcing strategies for 2026 and beyond
• Supporting growth and change through identification and implementation of adapted partnerships with identified suppliers, to improve both service level and cost
• control through supplier relationship management (SRM) tools
• Manage spend portfolio & cost savings by identifying and realizing opportunities, creative insourcing models, identifying opportunities for cash flow improvement, and tail spend management
• Responsible for driving the Source to Contract Lifecycle for applicable strategic categories and adhering to compliance policies within those processes
• Negotiate pricing and commercial terms with suppliers and lead business reviews
• Facilitate agreement process by effectively collaborating and influencing various stakeholders such as HR and Compliance
• Leverage procurement methods to improve upon categories and business conditions to drive innovation and continuous improvement
• Provide insight into and occasional training for procurement policies and processes
• Collaborate with global procurement team to promote synergies for all *** regions
• Select Suppliers and Manage Contracts - Oversee supplier related activities with direct oversight on:
• Developing and launching RFP’s or RFQ’s to select suppliers in targeted categories
• Analyzing proposals and recommending scenarios to key internal stakeholders
• Supporting negotiations with suppliers on quality, time & cost of service and contract terms and conditions
• Draft contracts and lead contract ratification activities, assuring interaction with supplier and Legal teams
• Manage suppliers to ensure business needs are met and maintain Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) to improve supplier performance
• Develop and implement performance indicators, monitor suppliers, and support continuous improvement
• Animate & Evaluate Suppliers - Drive quarterly and annual business reviews with team:
• Evaluate and manage the performance of professional services suppliers
• Define the objectives of improvement of performance and the necessary action plans
• Lead supplier relationship management (SRM) activities with internal stakeholders
• Ensure good supplier relationships
• Control Budget & Savings - Lead, in conjunction with reporting team, Finance and stakeholders, quarterly and annual activities related to:
• Bringing synergy in unifying the sourcing strategy across the company’s entities/business units/brands
• Overall spend visibility, spend compliance and tail spend management
• Benchmarking to identify new sourcing models and to bring the outside in
• Identification of new projects to create COVI (cost out, value in) opportunities - validate with finance, seek, and obtain buy-in for these projects, contribute to build budget with stakeholders, achieve and track savings monthly
• Foreseeing price and service evolution

Qualifications and competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field of study
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in strategic purchasing or related field with strong negotiation skills
• Experience in Professional Services and marketing procurement
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a cross-functional, multi-cultural, matrix environment
• Agile with a sense of urgency in completing responsibilities and identifying new opportunities
• Demonstrates cross-functional / peer to peer leadership through coaching; People management skills is a plus
• Proactive: anticipates issues/opportunities & can work through multiple simultaneous projects
• Fantastic presentation and project management, follow up and organizational skills
• Rigorous data analysis capability and financial acumen
• Ability to develop and implement strategic sustainable initiatives, and lead change by engaging people
• Comfortable in facing paradoxes or contradictions with resilience and tenacity
• Strong professionalism and the ability to drive initiatives when faced with adversity
• Ability to develop and grow, via different sourcing categories and / or increased accountability
• Adaptable to the use of new software solutions
• Proficient in Microsoft Office solutions