Job Title: Sr. Sourcing Manager

Location: Seattle WA USA 98134 (Hybrid, 3x per week)

Duration: 5 months - Possibility for Extension or conversion

Required background Skills:

• Understanding cost structure
• Business savvy, ability to validate and benchmark as needed
• 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.

Degree or certifications required:

• Degree required, 4 years degree in a relevant field

Years experience:

• 6-10 years of experience, The more experience the better

Nice-to-Haves:

• Food background