Strategic Sourcing Specialist (CA, CO, OR, WA, MD, VA, GA) - Virtual Office

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Summary:

In this role, you will ensure that ALL third parties working with company that have or plan to expand operations offshore are in alignment with the company’s offshore strategy (i.e. strong business case, acceptable geopolitical risk, sufficient contractual coverage, etc.).  This will involve reviewing each requests business case and conducting the contractual negotiations of offshore terms with the respective vendors.

Must live in one of the following locations: California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, Virginia, or Georgia.

Responsibilities:

• Pursue effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members.
• Pursue self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for the team.
• Support the continuous improvement of sourcing processes by analyzing standard and non-standard operational data and performance …