Strategic Sourcing Lead — Marketing & Collateral

Citizens; Johnston (RI); On-site; USD 97,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Education reimbursement

Wellness programs

Flexible work arrangements

Paid time off

Job summary

Citizens is seeking a Sourcing Lead for Marketing and Customer Collateral to act as a strategic partner to business line executives. You will leverage spend data, market intelligence, and an integrated source-to-pay process to shorten cycle times and increase savings opportunities.

Reporting to the Category Sourcing Team Manager within Strategic Sourcing, you will lead cross functional teams, negotiate contracts, and translate data into actionable insights to improve value from third party

Qualifications

• 3+ years of strategic sourcing or category experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading negotiations.
• Strong commercial acumen and financial modeling capability.
• Advanced analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Experience working cross-functionally and driving consensus across stakeholders.
• Structured, organized, and methodical planning skills.
• Communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development of commodity strategies to achieve cost savings and improve quality and service levels by identifying opportunities and sourcing strategies for strategic/complex negotiations.
• Oversee all spend activity for assigned commodity and determine proper action plan for all purchases that meet Procurement involve threshold.
• Join and potentially lead cross-functional teams to execute sourcing initiatives including the competitive bidding process and contract negotiations; ability to negotiate, including contract red lining for all types of corporate transactions using an Agile contracting framework.
• Provide Category Procurement subject matter expertise for the associated business/function; effectively work with functional and business groups as a trusted advisor to determine desired product/service specifications and projected demand when making recommended action plans.
• Maintain current with the industry supply base and industry trends with the objective to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Proactively identify improvement opportunities for assigned category areas and recommend key actions; utilize analytical thinking and tools to identify new benefits generation; prioritize projects to ensure demonstrated impact to the business.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Negotiations

Commercial acumen

Financial modeling

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Planning

Communication & presentation

Education

MBA or CPSM

Job description

Citizens is seeking a Sourcing Lead for Marketing and Customer Collateral to act as a strategic partner to business line executives. You will leverage spend data, market intelligence, and an integrated source-to-pay process to shorten cycle times and increase savings opportunities.

Reporting to the Category Sourcing Team Manager within Strategic Sourcing, you will lead cross functional teams, negotiate contracts, and translate data into actionable insights to improve value from third party