About Ascendion

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

Job Title: Senior Sourcing Manager

Location: Hybrid in Seattle, WA - 98134

Job Description:

• Effectively developing and leading global sourcing strategies, effectively managing suppliers and internal networks to deliver best in class performance for the relevant spending area.
• Consistently delivers measurable and strategic goals to enable a competitive advantage to bottom-line and topline company growth, and corporate social responsibility leadership.
• Collaborates effectively internally and with suppliers.
• Develop effective multiyear negotiation strategies to enable success.
• Leads highly complex cross functional global sourcing teams.

Daily Responsibilities:

Shaping the Business

• Strategy: Develops, owns, and executes effective, comprehensive multi-year category sourcing strategies that enable bottom-line and top-line company growth, through the incorporation of data-driven insights, stakeholder needs, and business objectives. Strategies shape stakeholder thinking. Strategies shall address corporate social responsibility as it pertains to supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, and sustainability, where applicable. Has previous experience managing more than one type of category/industry, stakeholders, and suppliers.
• Portfolio Management: Effectively manages the portfolio of projects and deadlines. Independently solves problems and make decisions to ensure successful execution of the project. Provides oversight, guidance, and drives completion of project plans. Documents post-mortems when necessary. Provide oversight, guidance and drives execution of project plans.
• Business Case Development: Creates business cases to drive sourcing strategies/initiatives that present the opportunity to shape the business. Obtains alignment for ideas by creating detailed and workable proposals, considering strategic, commercial, economic, financial, and organizational impacts.

Drive Value

• Value Stewardship: Consistently build a value pipeline and execute plans by leveraging relationships with stakeholders and suppliers to identify and drive value. Deep knowledge of category and supplier spend, as well as the key cost drivers of the product/service. Evaluate market trends and key cost drivers to identify, implement and track cost savings. Leverage the value analysis insights and incorporate them into strategies for implementation. Analyze complex supplier proposals and use decision-making tools and models including financial and non-financial criteria to facilitate award recommendations. Value is defined as cost savings, supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, innovation, and margin protection.
• Supplier Management & Collaboration: Management of strategic and preferred suppliers. Cultivate partnerships with new and existing suppliers through the lens of values, generating trust and transparency, in order to maximize mutual value and reduce risk. Professionally lead supplier key business reviews which demonstrate supplier growth and improvement, execute corrective action plans (as needed), and coach suppliers on understanding our business better.
• Supplier Enabled Innovation Management: Actively identifies and capitalizes on opportunities to match supplier's capabilities with internal business needs. Influence internal stakeholders to proactively engage with the suppliers on innovative concepts.

Protect Supply and Reduce Risk

• Contracting: Proficient knowledge to independently own and lead contracting, including preplanning, developing term sheet, and negotiating to maintain gold standard and avoiding exception-based contracting. Skilled negotiation savvy and approaches supplier 'we' mindset. Works with suppliers and stakeholders to develop contracts in line with business and legal requirements and ensure both parties deliver on contractual obligations, including awareness of relevant deliverables, costs, risks, and other commitments.
• Risk Management: Protects the organization by identifying, assessing, and mitigating supplier and supply chain risk. Take action to mitigate, reduce, and eliminate risk related to ethical sourcing, capacity, supplier financial, margin, and other identified risks. Instinctively balances risk and certainty.

Required Skills:

• Understanding cost structure
• Business savvy, ability to validate and benchmark as needed
• Food or similar experience
• Sourcing Foundations: Intermediate knowledge of procurement processes such as category sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, risk management, and key legal terms. Expert knowledge of procurement processes such as RFXs, market analysis, ‘should-cost’ models, and standard legal protections (i.e. confidentiality agreements). Helps other sourcing partners succeed through knowledge sharing of key sourcing foundations.
• Problem Solving & Business Acumen: Proactively identifies and addresses problems constructively and takes action to resolve.
• Teamwork: Effectively influences across peer groups and senior management level on complex strategy and demonstrates leadership.
• Project Management: Highly effective employment of project management tools and techniques. Ability to prioritize and redirect under pressure. Proactively mitigates situations before they become issues.
• Emotional Intelligence & Influence: Ability to lead in an ambiguous environment and agile response to change. Demonstrate effective influencing skills via the ability to flex your style depending on strategy and stakeholder.
• Communications: Ability to prepare clear and concise verbal, written, and visual presentations effectively utilizing storytelling techniques and ability to clearly communicate written and verbally to cross-functional stakeholders & senior management to align and implement strategy. Proactive communication to management.
• Intellectual Curiosity: Proactively identifies and engages in opportunities to expand knowledge via external benchmarking, external resources, further education (i.e. certificates), learning more about the broader business, attending conferences, etc. Applying learnings and shares learnings broadly with peers.

Technology requirements:

• SmartSheets
• Intermediate to Master in MS Office Suite, (including Excel pivot tables, managing complex formulas + data)
• (Nice to have, can be trained on) also knowledgeable in BI Apps, Oracle ERS, SAP Ariba, Power BI, Tableau, or other like systems.

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $80,000-$90,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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