Sourcing Consultant 2

About the job

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Supply Chain / Sourcing Consultant in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 3+ Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Sourcing, Procurement experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Fundamental understanding of contract law, including a minimum of 5 years’ experience drafting, reviewing, and interpreting contracts.
• Comprehensive sourcing and contract negotiation experience with suppliers in the following categories: facilities and or construction.
• Experience negotiating contracts and sourcing for a large complex organization in highly regulated environment.
• Ability to project manage deals, including legal, financial and stakeholder reviews.
• Strong benchmarking and analysis capabilities.
• Proficiency with leading web-based contract management and strategic sourcing (RFX, Ariba).
• Experience managing third party relationships and measuring performance results
• Ability to provide leadership by coaching, training, and mentoring.
• Ability to quickly establish credibility to build and maintain effective working relationships.
• Strong time management skills and ability to meet deadlines.

What You Will Be Doing

• Participate in low to moderately complex initiatives and identify opportunity for process improvements within Sourcing
• Review and analyze basic or tactical Sourcing assignments or challenges that require research, evaluation, and selection of alternatives, related to low-to-medium risk deliverables
• Present recommendations for resolving low to moderately complex situations and exercise some independent judgment while developing understanding of function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements
• Provide information to Client personnel in Sourcing
• Be accountable for delivering category expense savings/avoidances and drafting customized contract terms to proactively address business requirements and risk concerns.
• Proactively identifies and escalates contract risk-related issues, and identifies and creates alternative contract language to mitigate risks (financial, operational, and reputational) when negotiating Master Agreements, Transaction Documents (e.g. Statement of Work or Schedule), Amendments and other contractual documents.
• Works with key stakeholders (senior leaders) across the LOB or enterprise to determine the long-term needs and applicable strategies.
• Work with business partners to identify and drive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) process improvements to reduce costs.
• Supports initiatives specific diversity, and sustainability in an effort to continually improve effectiveness and efficiencies.
• Provide input and leadership into the development of LOB periodic business reviews, Strategic Sourcing’s annual LOB and category strategy reviews and acts as Strategic Sourcing’s liaison to key LOB leaders
• Lead vendor governance activities (i.e. supplier briefs, internal stakeholder meetings, vendor periodic business reviews) specific to the company’s most critical vendors.
• Contribute to improving LOB and/or Strategic Sourcing processes and systems to enable more robust processes, or efficiencies/expense reductions.