Associate Sourcing Analyst

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The Team

The Procurement department within Finance is looking for an Associate Sourcing Analyst who will work closely with business partners across the company to drive long-term value of vendor relationships. You will work closely with cross-functional teams such as legal, finance, and various risk teams to drive speed and compliance with procurement policies when engaging vendors. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of a rapidly expanding industry and contribute to the building of the new global financial system.

This role is 100% remote for candidates within the US

The Opportunity

• Learn, refine, and develop strategic/tactical sourcing skills, practices, and knowledge.

• Supports daily ticket request lifecycle management and stakeholder outreach

• Conduct vendor outreach for the timely completion of tasks

• Assist Sourcing Manager/Lead in driving contract negotiations with suppliers; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify key benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements

• Ability to project manage the contract review process with internal stakeholders and coordinate with legal subject matter experts as needed

• Support supplier rationalization plans to optimize existing vendors to deliver cost reduction, supply assurance, quality improvement, innovation and increased vendor utility

• Understand …