Senior Manager, Professional Services Strategic Sourcing

Reporting to the Director, Professional Services Strategic Sourcing, the Senior Manager, Professional Services Strategic Sourcing; will execute and manage a variety of Professional Services centered sourcing projects, supporting various stakeholders across the organization. This role is instrumental in optimizing supplier performance, ensuring commercial efficiency through strong supplier partnership and sourcing strategies. The ideal candidate will be able to translate the goals of their business partners to Sourcing objectives to provide a value-added service to the organization. The Senior Manager, Professional Services Strategic Sourcing, will execute Sourcing strategies defined by the Sourcing Category Lead and Key Business Stakeholders. Responsibilities include the following areas: Overall Responsibility At the direction of Corporate Services Strategic Sourcing leadership: o Build relationships with key business partners to develop and enable sourcing strategies that align with the needs of the business while meeting financial, operational, risk, quality, regulatory, and assurance of supply/services control objectives. o Serve as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor to Professional Services business stakeholders, providing proactive, white-glove, consultative support on their sourcing needs. o Manage and identify key supplier relationships by enabling operational delivery, continuous improvement, and innovation through performance and relationship measurement, overall governance, supplier relationship development and alignment to business and corporate goals and objectives. o Be a champion for Sourcing by ensuring and monitoring compliance with sourcing policies and processes through stakeholder communication, training, and the identification and reporting of exceptions and deviations. o Identify continuous improvement opportunities within the process area. o Support sourcing leadership in achieving annual savings and cost optimization objectives. o Support and execute significant, high value and high impact sourcing activities with cross-functional teams by assessing the category market, collecting business requirements, soliciting RFx’s, leading contractual and rate card negotiations and ensuring the strategic contractual infrastructure is in place to support business priorities o Ensure compliance with company policies, industry regulations, and ethical standards. Assess and mitigate supplier risks, driving quality and adhering to regulatory guidelines. o Create excellence through consistent, high-quality outcomes. Strategic Sourcing Vision, Strategy, and Objectives Execute against a common vision and strategy for Strategic Sourcing at Otsuka. Partners with Business leaders and other key stakeholders to gain their perspectives and endorsement of the vision and strategy. Produce measurements of success (KPIs) and appropriate processes to capture, consolidate and report on sourcing performance and outcome versus objectives to business partners. Build and maintain the category’s spend analytics and program metrics using advanced Excel, and translate them into clear, executive-ready PowerPoint presentations and business reviews for leadership and business partners. Support development of category’s spend analytics and program metrics using advanced Excel, and translate them into clear, executive-ready PowerPoint presentations and business reviews for leadership and business partners. Provide regular reporting and tracking of overall sourcing initiatives and their progress, including issues, risks, and other important observations to Business Leaders, and Stakeholders. Provide category expertise to business partners regarding changes in the category supplier landscape including new and existing suppliers. Strategic Sourcing Process and Policy Provides appropriate training across the organization on the importance of following Sourcing policies and processes. Ensures the appropriate controls ar…

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