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Strategic Sourcing Specialist
Briarlake Partners • Newtown Square, PA 19073 • Posted 4 days ago via LinkedIn
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Briarlake Partners is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist for a Philadelphia-based energy company. The role involves leading cost savings initiatives, providing strategic inputs, coordinating negotiations and contract implementation, and managing supplier relationships. The ideal candidate will have 4-8 years of industrial category sourcing experience, a bachelor's degree in a relevant field, and experience in SAP is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead analysis, development, and implementation of cost savings initiatives
- Provide strategic inputs and supply market information to guide business decisions and act as a conduit for procurement activities
- Coordinate negotiations, contract development, contract implementation, and supplier contract compliance
- Develop, implement, and report to stakeholders meaningful KPIs that accurately demonstrate performance
- Conduct ongoing business reviews to ensure suppliers are performing to contracted obligations and service levels
- Lead the suppliers and stakeholders of the supply chain through effective engagement and communication by delivering supplier awareness programs
Qualifications
Required
- 4 - 8 years of industrial category sourcing experience
- Bachelor's degree in a business, supply chain, or technical discipline
- Customer-focused with excellent written, listening, and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented, professional attitude, reliable
- Proven record of driving cost savings throughout a complex organization
- Ability to structure and manage complex projects
- Service-oriented mindset, with a desire to ensure client satisfaction
- Ability to think strategically, conceptually, and analytically to assess problems, identify and consider potential solutions, and make timely recommendations
- Data analytics, sourcing, procurement systems, and customer service
Preferred
- Experience in the energy, chemicals, or transportation industries
- SAP experience
Full Job Description
Briarlake Partners is a strategic sourcing focused recruiting firm. We are working with a Philadelphia based energy company with a few Strategic Sourcing Specialist roles open. We are looking for candidates with experience running RFP/RFQs, demonstrated ability to analyze data and realize savings through RFP and contract execution, contract negotiation experience, and vendor/supplier management/kpi tracking experience.
Responsibilities:
- Lead analysis, development, and implementation of cost savings initiatives
- Provide strategic inputs and supply market information to guide business decisions and act as a conduit for procurement activities
- Coordinate negotiations, contract development, contract implementation, and supplier contract compliance
- Develop, implement, and report to stakeholders meaningful KPIs that accurately demonstrate performance
- Conduct ongoing business reviews to ensure suppliers are performing to contracted obligations and service levels
- Lead the suppliers and stakeholders of the supply chain through effective engagement and communication by delivering supplier awareness programs.
Requirements:
- 2 - 5 years of strategic sourcing / procurement experience
- Energy, chemicals, or transportation industries a plus but not required
- Bachelor's degree in a business, supply chain, or technical discipline
- SAP experience is a plus
- Experience in supporting supplier portfolio development
- Customer-focused with excellent written, listening, and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented, professional attitude, reliable
- Proven record of driving cost savings throughout a complex organization
- Ability to structure and manage complex projects
- Service-oriented mindset, with a desire to ensure client satisfaction
- Ability to think strategically, conceptually, and analytically to assess problems, identify and consider potential solutions, and make timely recommendations
- Data analytics, sourcing, procurement systems, and customer service
Our client requires five days a week in their Newtown Square office.
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