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Summary:
The Strategic Sourcing Team drives immense value to ADTs business. Come join this ambitious and passionate team and make an impact at a company that provides safety to millions of people every single day. This role is responsible for contributing to and managing several hundred million dollars in annual spend spanning across hundreds of suppliers of varying sourcing categories with dynamic market landscapes, including sourcing exciting new technologies.
Summary:
The Strategic Sourcing Team drives immense value to ADTs business. Come join this ambitious and passionate team and make an impact at a company that provides safety to millions of people every single day. This role is responsible for contributing to and managing several hundred million dollars in annual spend spanning across hundreds of suppliers of varying sourcing categories with dynamic market landscapes, including sourcing exciting new technologies.
As a member of the Strategic Sourcing team, you are responsible for creating and maintaining collaborative partnerships with internal stakeholders. You will build a strong understanding of business requirements and priorities, then work cross-functionally to develop and execute sourcing strategies that achieve stakeholder and business objectives.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support business needs and projects across indirect categories including non-IT labor and professional and corporate services, such as HR, legal, and financial services.
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and vendors.
- Lead sourcing engagements by partnering with stakeholders to define business requirements, identify potential suppliers, determine suppliers wants, conduct negotiations, and execute contracts that ensure successful delivery of high value outcomes are realized.
- Manage, analyze, and drive strategic sourcing and supply chain projects and initiatives to include all aspects of strategic sourcing processes that highly impact the business, deliver the best value, and drive process improvement for ADT.
- Manage sourcing bid events (RFP/RFI) and administer sourcing related tools and sourcing processes.
- Perform bid proposal analysis, comparison, and overall supplier solutions, services, and technology evaluations. Make recommendations for final supplier selection, influence business owners sourcing decisions, and obtain business stakeholders buy in.
- Deliver on supplier relationship and performance management strategies in alignment with Vendor Management team to support supplier performance reviews that highlight success and failure with supplier operational deliverables and execution.
- Provide consultative thought leadership on new and innovative ways of creating improved workflow, scale, and outcomes of Indirect Sourcing.
- Data driven, analytic mindset, and possess skills to find business insight and sourcing opportunities (saving, process improvement, supplier continuous improvement, etc.).
- Eager to learn, ability to learn new tools and technology quickly to apply to the strategic sourcing role.
- Work collaboratively and proactively to drive results.
- Negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups while gaining trust quickly with all parties. Can be direct and assertive as well as diplomatic.
- Prioritization: Spend time on whats important, eliminate roadblocks, and create focus.
- Strong change management skills and ability to get things done through formal channels and informal networks.
- Dedicated to meeting the expectations of internal and external customers, gains trust and respect.
- Bachelors degree in supply chain management, procurement, technology, operation management, or a technical field, with at least five years of progressive work experience in Strategic Sourcing and/or Vendor Management.
- MBA or Masters degree in supply chain management, procurement, technology, operation management, or a technical field preferred.
- Advanced certification (e.g., CPM, CPSM, CPSC, PMP) preferred.
- Deep understanding of category management, strategic sourcing, and supplier relationship management principles and application.
- Advanced financial analytical skills and experience in enhancing value through negotiations.
- Strategic orientation, inquisitive, comfortable with ambiguity, and self-motivated to identify trends and improvement opportunities aligned with business objectives and strategic plans.
- Ability to build effective relationships, influence peers and key stakeholders, and build consensus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to tailor messages to the given audience and present information in a clear and concise manner.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills with ability to extract key themes, determine root causes, develop creative solutions, and craft concise messages.
- Ability to prioritize, organize, and multitask in a flexible, fast paced, and challenging environment.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills.
Seniority level
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Job function
Other-
Industries
Security and Investigations
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