Strategic Sourcing Specialist

WM (Waste Management); Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Stock purchase plan

401(k) matching

Paid vacation/holidays/personal days

Job summary

Waste Management (WM) is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to reduce the cost of externally purchased materials while maintaining quality and service. You will lead sourcing for assigned categories and drive category management, coordinating cross-functional teams and executing RFPs and supplier negotiations.

The role emphasizes strategy development, market analysis, and ongoing supplier management to optimize total cost of ownership across spend categories.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business or a technical field; High School Diploma acceptable with experience.
• 4 years of relevant experience and 3 years in a supply chain role with $10M+ spend.
• Experience with category management and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Reduce cost of externally purchased materials while maintaining quality.
• Develop sourcing strategies and tactics for low to medium complexity events.
• Lead RFPs, bid evaluations, supplier evaluation, and contract development.
• Manage supplier relationships and ongoing category management.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Cost analysis

Negotiation

Sourcing

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or technical field

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

eSourcing tools

RFP development

Contract management software

Job description

Job Summary

The Strategic Sourcing Specialist is responsible for reducing the overall cost of externally purchased materials, goods and services while maintaining or improving quality and service delivery using the strategic sourcing process to identify and eliminate waste and inefficiencies upstream and downstream in the supply chain for one or more spend categories or subcategories. This role is also responsible for on-going category management for assigned categories or subcategories.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• In-depth knowledge of the company's primary businesses as they relate to the categories assigned.
• Analyze and understand the company's historical spending patterns for assigned spend categories or subcategories
• Establish and facilitate cross-functional teams to determine requirements and participate in the overall sourcing process as Subject Matter Experts, stakeholder representatives, etc.
• Analyze and understand the market for potential solutions to satisfy the requirements identified
• Develop sourcing strategies and tactics based on the empirical results of the requirements and market analysis, for low to medium complexity sourcing events, that will result in the best overall value and TCO for the company
• Present sourcing strategy and tactics recommendations to supply chain leadership, and key stakeholders
• Execute the sourcing strategy and tactics to select the source. This may include: development of RFPs, use of eSourcing tools, bid evaluations, supplier evaluation, development of negotiation strategy, negotiation documents, supplier performance metrics, and contracts.
• Present results of the source selection process to supply chain leadership and key stakeholders
• Develop a detailed implementation plan that includes: the transition process and timing, communication plan identifying purpose, target audiences, key messages, frequency, duration, delivery medium(s), responsibilities, schedule, program utilization and user satisfaction metrics
• Develop and document savings calculations and any other impact metrics
• Determine reporting frequency and report savings
• Ongoing management of suppliers in assigned spend categories
• Ongoing collaboration with suppliers and internal users to continuously improve the supply chain (up and down stream)
• Ongoing contract management, program utilization tracking and reporting, internal requirements monitoring and market dynamics monitoring

Qualifications

A. Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business or a technical field, or in lieu of
• High School Diploma or GED
• 4 years of relevant experience.
• 3 years experience in a supply chain related position with category spend responsibility of $10M or greater (in addition to education requirement).

B. Preferred Qualifications

• Health Services\CPM - Certification By The Institute For Supply Management
• Health Services\CPMSM - Certified Professional Medical Services Management

Physical Requirements

• Repetitive Motions
• Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination
• Sitting
• Talking
• Hearing

Office:

This job primarily operates in a professional office environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copy machines, etc.

Benefits

At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short-term disability. In addition, we offer a stock purchase plan, company matching on a 401(k), and more. Employees also receive paid vacation, holidays, and personal days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.