Strategic Sourcing Manager, Vice President

Mufgamericas; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 126,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health and wellness benefits

Retirement plans

Paid vacation and sick days

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Tempe, AZ, seeks a Strategic Sourcing Manager, Vice President, to lead comprehensive sourcing strategies aimed at driving efficiency and value. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of relevant experience, a Bachelor's degree, and excellent negotiation and leadership skills. The role includes stakeholder relationship management and significant interaction with executive leadership. This position offers a competitive salary range of $126K - $161K, along with a robust benefits package.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in strategic sourcing.
• Strong business acumen with a focus on cost savings and efficiency.
• Experience managing budgets, workloads, and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Lead negotiations to maximize value and minimize risk.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders and suppliers.

Skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Strategic planning

Analytical skills

Team building

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

Strategic Sourcing Manager, Vice President page is loaded## Strategic Sourcing Manager, Vice Presidentlocations: Tempe, AZtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: 10075373-WDDiscover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.**Job Summary:**The Strategic Sourcing Manager is responsible for several key areas focused on (1) the development and execution of comprehensive sourcing and category strategies and (2) the successful execution of those strategies to drive greater efficiency, value, and quality across the organization. In support of this work, this position is also responsible for building sustained value-based relationships with stakeholder and suppliers, providing subject matter expertise, strategic guidance, and leadership in contract negotiations to achieve defined business objectives. Develop, instill and demonstrate sustained performance with performance management/reporting, compliance, issue/escalation management, and continuous improvement routines are critical for success in this role. The primary objective of this position is to efficiently save the Bank money while maintaining an acceptable level of risk and sustaining value-based interdepartmental relationships.**Major Responsibilities:****Strategic Sourcing Strategy Development & Execution:*** Develop a comprehensive strategic sourcing strategy for various lines of business in alignment with defined business objectives and overall corporate objectives* Lead the end-to-end sourcing process and facilitate analysis and collaboration of a cross-functional team, leveraging market/industry insights to make strategic recommendations* Develop negotiation strategy and lead negotiations to maximize total value and minimize risk* Achieve cost savings and customer satisfaction targets* RFx/Contract management* Lead and execute on commodity/category/supplier strategy to deliver maximum value* Understand business partner’s objectives and business drivers and integrate into the commodity/category/supplier strategy with input from key stakeholders**Stakeholder / Supplier Relationship Management & Integration:*** Build and maintain value-measured relationships with key stakeholders to drive sustained results while ensuring strategies remain in alignment with business goals* Conduct regular business reviews with key suppliers to ensure compliance with contract deliverables**Market Research & Analysis*** Provide full and accurate category “market intelligence” by leading and performing in-depth analysis, understanding market drivers, and cost structures across the category level* Maintain industry and market awareness trends through research and networking* Create commodity or supplier specific sourcing strategies to optimize the supply base, diversity spending and total cost of ownership**Education, Licensure, Year of Experience (and type of work experience):*** Bachelor’s Degree and typically 10 plus years of relevant experience* MBA or advanced degree in related discipline preferred* Strong leadership, management, planning, organizational, analytical, and continuous improvement skills* Management and supervisory skills including team building, influencing, motivating, developing, and managing onsite and offsite staff* Provide oversight, coaching and mentoring to other sourcing managers within the organization* Interaction with Executive Committee members of the company* Experience influencing cross-functional leaders in a large organization, some of whom may have different priorities and goals* Proven ability to produce results that impact a broad portfolio of spend or change across the organization* Ownership of delegated authority from sourcing leadership team for decision making and/or strategic planning* Experience managing a budget, workload, headcount, and team* Strong business acumen, ability to provide strategic vision, tactical planning, sound judgment, prudent recommendations, balance risks, solve complex issues, overcome obstacles and challenging circumstances, results oriented, negotiate win-win, and produce positive decisions and outcomesThe typical base pay range for this role is between $126K - $161K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.