- Partner with Transportation/Logistics and Business leaders to determine the best portfolio strategy to support company's growth and cost-containment requirements, execute competitive bids, and secure the right carriers and solutions to deliver the desired results.

- Strategic Sourcing, RFP Facilitation, and Negotiation

- Everyday execution requires confidence, heightened curiosity to dig deep into the business, action-orientation, and effective communication and project management skills.

- Engage deeply in the business to understand needs and identify opportunities for cost reduction and performance improvement

- Monitor macroeconomic trends and cost drivers (fuel, labor, capacity) to inform the sourcing and negotiation process

- Collaborate with Stakeholders to define sourcing strategies that unlock potential from within our operations

- Independently manage multiple, complex sourcing events, ensuring the highest standards of objectivity, fairness, and ethics

- Use analytics to provide sound recommendations for negotiation and awards

- Lead cross-functional teams to identify and capture value through the negotiation process

Contracting and Risk Mitigation

This role acts a liaison across multiple parties to, uphold the standards and policies of the company, and protect the company from risk.

- Partner with legal and internal business teams to standardize and negotiate contracts that secure business value, mitigate risk, and ensure supplier performance

- Guarantee adequate supplier certification to company Standards

- Educate clients and recommend steps to mitigate, manage, and avoid inherent risks in the industry and explicit risks identified with suppliers.

- Protect company and its employees from risk, by assuming responsibility for the best-in-class sourcing and procurement process and compliance to our Policy

Category Strategy Development

Effective category strategy development is the key to delivering breakthrough results for the business. Through a proven method of gathering pertinent information, this role will partner closely with the business to determine the approach and align on recommendations.

- Analyze company spend within the category to understand rate, mix, and volume trends

- Continually evaluate the industry, with specific attention to emerging technologies and solutions, prospective suppliers, and global and local economic shifts

- Identify and isolate nuances within the categories to develop a portfolio perspective that balances cost, quality, scale, and capabilities.

- Identify the solutions and partners that align most closely to our business needs to fuel the sourcing strategies

- Present Strategies and recommendations to business executives to secure alignment priorities and business objectives

- Collaborate and coordinate with category leaders in EMEA, APAC, NA and other markets to share insights

Self-Development and Management

Our business is a people business, so we need talent that leans into the opportunity with curiosity, brings a drive for results and an approach that builds on collaboration to deliver better-than-imagined outcomes.

- Set clear, objective, assertive goals that make creativity and accountability necessary.

- Invest in your own development to elevate engagement and maximize results

- Live and model the values, celebrating diversity and inclusion, recognizing the greater impact of our work

- Lead with a balance of optimism and pragmatism, leveraging the strengths of others to unlock our potential.

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