Strategic Sourcing Leader — Professional Services

FirstEnergy Corp; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

FirstEnergy is seeking a Professional Services Category Specialist for its Service Company. This role drives strategic sourcing across consulting, legal, tax, HR, marketing and other business services.

You will partner with internal stakeholders and external providers to deliver cost savings, manage risk, and ensure compliance within an on-site Akron, Ohio setting. Experience in strategic sourcing, project management, and professional services sourcing is preferred; we value collaboration and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, business administration, engineering, or related discipline with 2+ years related work experience.
• In lieu of a degree, High School or equivalent and 4+ years related work experience.
• Related work experience includes supply chain or sourcing.
• Project management experience preferred.
• Professional Services sourcing experience preferred.
• Successful implementation of category improvements.
• Ensure compliance with all policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Support the strategic category manager in achieving significant cost reductions in assigned professional services categories.
• Define contracting optimization strategies that seek total cost of ownership and service level improvements.
• Partner with stakeholders across the enterprise to develop optimization strategies, identify opportunities, and execute improvement plans.
• Leverage technology, analytics, and tools to collect and analyze supplier spend data to drive savings.
• Analyzing supplier performance data and provide input to category sourcing strategy.
• Developing strategic plans for contracting and improving managed categories.
• Ensuring execution of strategies within user area.
• Leading supplier selection and management.
• Measuring and tracking performance of overlooked suppliers.
• Developing knowledge and best practices in the categories within areas of responsibility.
• Ensuring user satisfaction of the strategic sourcing process.
• Keeping strategic manager informed about procurement progress.
• Planning and leading RFP processes in assigned categories.
• Coordinating with users' technical assessment of received proposals.
• Negotiating contract conditions that are more favorable for FirstEnergy.
• Tracking market dynamics of categories.
• Defining cost benchmarks for categories under management.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Cost reduction

Stakeholder collaboration

Data analytics

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, business administration, engineering, or related discipline

High School or equivalent with 4+ years experience

Tools

Market intelligence software

Spend analysis tools

Supplier risk analytics

Job description

FirstEnergy is seeking a Professional Services Category Specialist for its Service Company. This role drives strategic sourcing across consulting, legal, tax, HR, marketing and other business services.

You will partner with internal stakeholders and external providers to deliver cost savings, manage risk, and ensure compliance within an on-site Akron, Ohio setting. Experience in strategic sourcing, project management, and professional services sourcing is preferred; we value collaboration and