Procurement Specialist 4 - Supply Chain

Are you an experienced Procurement Specialist 4 - Supply Chain with a desire to excel? If so, then Talent Software Services may have the job for you! Our client is seeking an experienced Procurement Specialist 4 - Supply Chain to work at their company in Redmond, WA.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

Sourcing management and strategies

• Lead key assigned strategic initiatives for the organization along with a project/cross-functional team.
• Early engagement with cross-functional leadership including product design, quality, and business teams to determine sourcing requirements for system integrators and supply chain design.
• Develop sourcing strategies to ensure advantaged cost, continuity of supply, and effective TAM to dock operations.
• Define RFQ/RFP activities and conduct negotiations with suppliers.
• Manage contracting activities with Legal and ensure contracts reflect cross-functional engagements with suppliers.
• Establish and maintain business relationships with business partners within and outside of the Sourcing organization.
• Collect, synthesize, and communicate fact-based insights to drive strategies and decision-making for executives.
• Bring in thought leadership to help management in building vision and aligning with stakeholders.

Supply chain operations management and cost effectiveness

• Represent Supply Chain & Sourcing team in various forums, and partner with teams on actions and deliverables.
• Interface with demand/capacity planning, deployment, logistics, finance, data center operations, and engineering to build processes & tools, drive optimization, garner supply chain efficiencies, and improve delivery performance.
• Ensure pricing competitiveness and identify cost reduction opportunities.
• Manage ad-hoc cost issues e.g. tariffs/import export cost, cost inflation.
• Continuous improvement of operational processes and performance metrics.

Manage supplier performance and compliance

• Develop and enable new suppliers.
• Central point of contact for supplier relationship in system integrator category.
• Ensure supplier compliance with requirements (e.g. security, social responsibility, payment terms).
• Conduct business reviews and ensure supplier's excellence in performance.

Qualifications:

• Years of Experience Required: 8-10 overall years of experience in the field.
• Degrees or certifications required: A degree is preferred but not a strict requirement for the role; it can be listed as either required or preferred based on the team's preference.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Ability to influence and build relationships across multiple layers in the organization.
• Leadership in ambiguous situations and managing conflicting priorities.
• Forward-thinking, can-do mindset.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• Familiarity with Azure supply chain and sourcing processes is a plus (not required).
• 10 years of experience in supply chain management, procurement, planning, and operations areas.
• Minimum 5 years of supplier management experience in an Electronics, or high-volume supply chain and/or applicable Manufacturing/Hardware production environment.
• Extensive experience in leading cross-functional teams.
• Cloud/high-tech supply chain experience is a plus.
• Minimum 8 years of experience with Financial analysis.
• Minimum 8 years of experience with business tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and ability to generate quality outputs.

Preferred:

• Extensive knowledge in hardware sourcing, supply chain, and product development process.
• Demonstrated track record in cross-functional team and supplier management.
• Excellent influencing skills and ability to build relationships across multiple layers in the organization.
• Strong verbal and written communication, along with strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Proven capabilities in operating in a growing, fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• Ability to lead in ambiguous situations and deal effectively with conflicting priorities and changes with strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Familiar with business tools (e.g., Word, Excel modeling, PowerPoint slides) and able to generate quality outputs.
• Given the growth of the Cloud, this position presents a unique opportunity to ensure Sourcing processes scale to support growth and the right performance indicators are put in place to drive success. Candidate should have a forward-thinking, can-do mindset.