SAP Vendor management consultant ($Open) - Pennsylvania, PA

Title SAP Vendor management consultant

Position 6 + Months Contract

Location Pennsylvania, PA (Onsite)

Rate - $Open (Best Possible)

Job Description

• Facilitate supplier agreement negotiations, renegotiations and contract addendums.
• Negotiate performance-based, preferred supplier agreements, to provide incentive for continuous supplier improvement. Advises Site Ops leader on strategic plans.
• Source competitive quotes for Facilities, office, catering, transport, GIS, computers, IT, network equipment
• Represents Site Ops in cross-functional team meetings and projects, that focuses on supply challenges and ensures internal/external customer needs are satisfied.
• Works cross-functionally with Engineering, IT, Finance, HR and Corp Comm
• Define and monitor metrics in line with AOP (annual operating plan) objectives relative to supplier performance against these expectations to ensure continuous supplier improvement; then drives team to address and close gaps to meet objectives
• Fulfilling the duties and responsibilities of a vendor manager requires the ability to negotiate and understand a contract, the ability to analyze a cost-benefit analysis, interpersonal skills, and the ability to work closely with senior executives.
• Vendor managers are also expected to resolve disputes and search for mutually beneficial outcomes, and any history of doing so can help you stand out from other applicants
• Regularly evaluate cost and quality performance benchmarks, and the risks associated with the preferred supply base selection.
• Develop and apply a strategic commodity plan to define a preferred supplier base for build-to-print commodities
• Prepare, review contracts and upload in myContracts
• Create PR/PO in SAP
• Conduct interviews and meetings with new vendors.
• Ensure enterprise-wide needs for due diligence, risk assessment and continuing vendor monitoring are being accomplished.
• Help and coordinate vendor processes and methods to approve vendors.
• Ensure to track, measure, report and evaluate vendor performance.
• Troubleshoot all vendor problems and present to management as required.
• Identify improvement areas internally as well as perform closely with all internal stakeholders to prepare solutions.
• Identify and implement continuously enhance efficiencies associated with vendor management plus produce fulfillment.
• Participate to formulate workflow processes, methods and policies for applying vendors.
• Ensure to collaborate with IT areas to assure vendor partners effectively manage plus contracts are completely leveraged.
• Prepare processes for as well as manage analysis, selection and transition.
• Stimulate steady process enhancement to present increasing operational efficiency in entire business partner processes

Qualification:

• Requires excellent analytical and written/oral communication skills with ability to communicate cross-functionally and with various levels of the organization including executives
• Previous project management experience and knowledge of basic project management concepts
• Experience with continuity planning and risk mitigation development with suppliers
• Experience in capacity planning, cost reduction approaches and lead time reduction
• Influence skills: experienced communicator with the ability to communicate critical thinking ideas and concepts. Capable of developing and delivering compelling arguments and presentations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and business processes
• Maintains current knowledge on relevant trends through professional networking, industry reports, trade journals, etc.

Note: If interested please send your updated resume to and include your rate requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us.

We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest!.