Strategic Sourcing Role - eCommerce Startup

- Manage the company's supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending

- Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies

- Analyze and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure

- Invent negotiation strategies and secure profitable deals

- Optimize sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency

- Cooperate with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes

- Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers

- Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking

- Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques

- Discover and partner with trustworthy vendors and suppliers

- Determine quantity and timing of deliveries

Qualifications, Skills and Abilities

- Bachelor's degree or Master's degree from Top ranked college

- Strong preference for some international sourcing experience

- Ability to manage projects and establish clear goals and accountabilities to ensure successful delivery (on time, within budget, meeting agreed upon success criteria)

- Must have excellent presentation and communication skills