Tasks and Responsibilities:
- As a Strategic Sourcer, your primary responsibility is to establish and maintain robust relationships with stakeholders.
- You will oversee the day-to-day management of a client Sourcing projects for multiple clients.
- Fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture you will lead sourcing initiatives that range from smaller projects starting at $1 million to strategic purchases up to $300 million and occasionally > $1Bn, all with minimal oversight.
- Ensuring negotiated commercial terms achieve the best outcomes, drafting contracts based on standard terms and conditions, and leading cross-functional deal teams while coordinating with senior stakeholders are key aspects of your role.
- Additionally, you will build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers and stay abreast of market trends for assigned categories, contributing valuable insights to sourcing plans and opportunity assessments for existing and prospect new clients.
- You are expected to adhere to our corporate standards, utilizing defined sourcing tools and processes to deliver sourcing initiatives effectively. Identifying and implementing opportunities to generate savings for clients through smarter and more efficient sourcing is crucial.
- Furthermore, you will mentor, and coach experienced, professionals within the team, providing support in more complex deals as needed.
Requirements:
- Demonstrates proven market knowledge of ITO and BPO category, with skills to apply knowledge to drive maximum value for clients and able to advise highly skilled Expert level team members.
- Proven capability of running large multi-million / complex global deals, including all aspects of the tender process
- Hands on approach for deal execution, manage deals end to end on their own with minimal oversight
- Highly organised and results driven, can lead a cross-functional team
- The Expert Sourcer will play a key role in exceeding client expectations, driving savings, and delivering sourcing excellence across strategic initiatives. Act as a senior point of contact for clients, ensuring proactive, structured, and value-driven sourcing execution. Client/stakeholder focus within the corporate environment with the gravitas to influence senior stakeholders
- Experienced negotiator and excellent communication skills
- Ability to structure complex deals and develop sourcing strategies.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, often to tight deadlines, and deliver results
- Experience in working with market leading sourcing tools and systems
- Professional team player, motivated and highly flexible