Supply Chain Manager

Charter Global; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Atlanta is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to oversee strategic sourcing and contract management. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in commodity management and strong negotiation skills, ensuring optimal supplier performance and compliance. This role involves developing spend management strategies and fostering collaboration with key stakeholders. If you are ready to take on a challenging position that directly impacts business operations, apply now.

Qualifications

• At least five years of progressive commodity/supply chain management experience.
• Strong understanding of IT and software business and procurement concepts.

Responsibilities

• Manages workflow for strategic sourcing and contract lifecycle management.
• Develops spend management strategies and supplier assessments.
• Leads negotiation and completion of contracts with suppliers.

Skills

Negotiation

Contract Management

Sourcing

Job description

• Independently manages the workflow for the commodity manager’s primary duties: strategic sourcing, contract lifecycle management, and compliance/governance

• Guides the selection, development, and management of Strategic Suppliers to meet commodity cost and performance goals, with emphasis placed on ability to identify cost targets for relevant technology and product roadmaps.

• Understands and monitors current commodity market conditions/trends, developing technologies, supplier capacity/ capability, product knowledge, customer requirements and supply/demand challenges.

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of procedures, processes and policies, especially the sourcing policy and contracts policy.

• Implements a rigorous and disciplined process for managing the supply base including leading periodic reviews, monitoring and managing supplier performance (quality, cost, delivery, technology, service, and leadership), managing supplier relationships, performing root cause analysis and resolution, developing and monitoring supplier improvement plans, and collaborating with engineering to align technology roadmaps.

• Leads negotiation and completion of contracts with global strategic and preferred suppliers to maximize benefits

• Establishes a strong network and fosters collaboration with customers, suppliers, key stakeholders, and commodity team members.

• Develops and implements spend management strategies including supplier assessments and rationalization, negotiation for best total cost of ownership, make vs. buy analyses, cycle time improvements, security of supply, supplier diversity, continuous improvement, EDI, and procurement/IT/engineering collaboration.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• At least five years of progressive commodity/supply chain management experience; five years of direct source-to-contract experience (either as a sourcing manager or as a business unit manager)

• Indirect category management experience (either as a sourcing manager or as a business unit manager); strong understanding of IT and software business and procurement concepts, including software licensing, cloud architecture, IT labor SOWs, and software-as-a-service

• Strong negotiation, and contract management skills; including a working understanding of contractual terms and conditions and risk mitigation.

• Understanding of the legalities of ethical purchasing behaviors and the ability to work with Legal on assuring those aspects

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Five years of direct source-to-contract work facilitating bilateral master agreements.

• Five years managing IT and software sourcing

• In-depth experience with procurement and services contracts, including software as a service (SaaS), software licensing, and hardware sales and service

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Supply Chain, Customer Service, and Consulting

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage, and Software Development

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