Supply Chain/Procurement Manager - W2 Only

Position: Supply Chain/Procurement Manager W2 Only

Duration: 03 Months of Contract with possible extension or conversion

Location: 100% Remote Role.

Primary Purpose:

• The Commodity Manager serves as a sourcing expert in a particular class of goods or service.
• This position creates/maintains supplier relationships, negotiates all pricing structures and contracts and ensures pricing and delivery meets contract guidelines.

Experience

• Five (5) years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Experience with P2P platforms and Power BI preferred.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Drives vendor selection strategy, contracts management, and continues monitoring to optimize collaboration and mitigate risks
• Writes, launches, manages and successfully closes RFPs for all new suppliers or services.
• Reviews and consolidates existing suppliers in an assigned commodity, ensuring unused suppliers are deactivated, redundancies are removed and looks for opportunities to consolidate suppliers providing the same goods or services.
• Ensures all supplier contracts are uploaded to the database with key terms captured for reporting
• Leads, negotiates and contracts all new and renewal supplier agreements. Tracks all contract negotiations and saves generated contracts in assigned database.
• Serves as an internal and external escalation point for all supplier questions and issues.
• Measures supplier and vendor performance against agreed on cost savings and cost avoidance targets.
• Monitors, tracks and reacts to critical market forecasts and condition changes.
• Conducts category spend analyses and reporting, supplier stratification, supply market and category industry research.
• Builds and manages relationships with priority business executives, serves as a key member to support implementation of business strategies through advanced procurement initiatives and team alignment,
• Facilitates the entire sourcing process and closely collaborate with clients to select and award business to suppliers.
• Demonstrates a strategic business mindset, organizational savvy, presents an executive-level presence, and balances multiple stakeholder interests simultaneously.
• Stays abreast of industry news, market trends, and regulatory changes that could affect commodity prices.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Supports the organization s quality program(s).

Education & Licensing

• Bachelor s degree in Business, Supply Chain, or Finance from an accredited college or university preferred.
• Related certifications such as IIBA, and /or CPM, CIPS or CPSM preferred.