Sourcing Consultant Job Description
Sourcing consultant
provides strategic support to Director across entire Value Chain and Services portfolio which includes Strategic Sourcing, Tactical Sourcing and Supply Chain.
Sourcing Consultant Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Responsible for interfacing with technology domains to define technology project/services requirements
Support technology strategies for IT Software Maintenance renewals
Understand and analyze global enterprise supply chain strategies with major technology vendors, and applicable business owner/commodity area strategies in accordance with overall business and financial goals
Perform expense and cost benefit analyses related to technology products/services associated with cost savings/reduction initiatives, benchmark products/services, market and vendors, and make recommendation based upon analyses
Domain specialist in Sourcing, Supplier Management and Contracts area
Partner with others to establish sourcing strategies which include evaluation of sourcing alternatives, identifying the sourcing approach, and establishing project plan / timeline to deliver an effective sourcing solution
Gather and/or jointly develop and document client requirements
Establish and execute a negotiation strategy
Conduct contract and price negotiations with supplier
Collaborate and communicate with Information Security, Legal, Privacy, Risk Management, Treasury, and internal client throughout the contracting process to develop and document final terms and conditions that comply with requirements
Sourcing Consultant Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Sourcing Consultant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPSM, APICS, ISO9001, PRINCE, DFSS
Education for Sourcing Consultant
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Employers hiring for the sourcing consultant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Education, Engineering, MBA, Human Resources, Library Science, Business/Administration, Management, Finance, Marketing
Skills for Sourcing Consultant
Desired skills for sourcing consultant include:
Excel and PowerPoint
Excel
Role of sourcing and contracting in meeting company goals
Specific business areas
How Supply Chain creates value for the enterprise with a good understanding of defined strategies
PeopleSoft
Supply Chain Management/ERP software
Technology
Procurement techniques and principles
Sourcing tools
Desired experience for sourcing consultant includes:
Ability to be flexible to work on other geographies, as necessary, depending upon the need
A background in multiple indirect categories is required
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or Computer Science
Thought leadership in sourcing domain
4+ years of implementation experience in area of Ariba Sourcing, SIPM and Contracts space with minimum one implementation where upstream and downstream Ariba solutions were involved/in scope
3+ full cycle implementations of Ariba Sourcing, SIPM and Contracts
Sourcing Consultant Examples
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Sourcing Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of sourcing consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for sourcing consultant
- Execute negotiation and sourcing strategies related to assigned IT Software portfolio to ensure accurate contract renewals and supplier invoicing and ensure supplier compliance with contract terms and conditions and pricing
- Provide contract solutions which mitigate risk and align with business objectives and strategies
- Responsible for advising and educating stakeholders on key contract terms and conditions such as service levels, deliverables and IP rights
- Memorialize results of negotiations through development and review of contractual language with support from Contract Management
- Develop methodologies to capture savings value derived negotiations and ongoing improvement activities
- Ensure Sourcing meets its committed savings objectives with support from Spend Analytics, by conducting variance to plan analysis
- Provide exceptional experience to the candidates and your internal/ external partners
- Be a super user/admin of the ATS / RMS
- Provide timely metrics, reports and status updates on assigned requisitions/ projects or as requested
- Participate in industry, diversity, veteran and college hiring events
Qualifications for sourcing consultant
- Experience working within multiple industries and across applicable geographies is preferred
- Must have knowledge of Ariba Contracts, Ariba SIPM and Ariba P2P
- Must have Ariba configuration, enhancement and customization experience
- Deliver multiple pieces of work in parallel, both client facing and internal
- Contribute to the development of targeted sourcing strategies that will enable the Recruitment team to meet business goals and targets
- Maintain current industry and market knowledge on trends and changes
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a sourcing consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for sourcing consultant
- Understanding the technology, vendors and industries in which our clients operate
- Performing and supporting activities on Technology Sourcing Advisory engagements, from strategy to implementation
- Assist our clients in thinking through broader operational and transformation implications of their technology purchases
- Assist with the research, selection, configuration and implementation of a CRM Recruitment system
- Identify more efficient and organized approaches to capturing, leveraging and sharing value-add information across the broader Talent Acquisition team
- Proactively identify, data-mine, organize and map (tag) relevant candidate profiles in Linkedin Recruiter/ATS tools for current and future job openings
- Through research, generate extensive library of boolean search lists to bring pinpoint search efficiencies to future searches
- Identify and utilise other channels to accrue relevant talent and market intelligence
- Craft and manage effective e-mail campaigns (in-mail library) to generate candidate interest in current openings
- Assist in generating new website content and enhancing our reporting capabilities
Qualifications for sourcing consultant
- Knowledge of advance sourcing techniques, X-rating, Flipping, and Peeling Back
- Knowledge of talent/people aggregators Prophet, Peoplegraph, vibe, Connect 6
- Applicants should possess significant experience successfully developing, implementing, measuring and adjusting comprehensive sourcing strategies and plans, and identifying and leveraging source channels
- Build and maintain relationships across the Recruitment team to ensure that we leverage opportunities, build proactive pipelines in targeted areas and profiles, and deliver a best in class candidate experience
- Experience contracting with foreign/international suppliers preferred
- Knowledge of assigned commodity industry / marketplace
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Sourcing Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a sourcing consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for sourcing consultant
- Prepare and issue Requests for Proposals
- Leading, managing and facilitate Procurement Projects
- Successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of the projects at the assigned location(s)
- Focuses on driving value by creating a combination of value enhancements in relationships with agencies and cost transparency, understanding drivers and negotiating contracts with appropriate controls and incentives
- Executes standardized strategic sourcing processes for assigned categories/sub-categories
- Focuses on financial benefits for the Enterprise
- Participates in cross-enterprise functional teams for sub-categories and aggressively tracks and improves non-compliance preferred supplier(s)
- Implements sourcing recommendations and develops and manages new and existing Business Process Outsourcing relationships
- Provides subject matter expertise for the above mentioned categories
- Designs and develops data capturing and reporting approaches identifying possible areas of opportunity for expense management improvement
Qualifications for sourcing consultant
- Should be diplomatic, flexible, and have a good team approach
- Knowledge of sourcing systems
- Work seamlessly with our clients' own resources to ensure that the solutions that are implemented will address their business requirements
- A minimum of three years related business experience
- Experience in Sourcing or any related function
- Demonstrated maturity and knowledge in this category managed
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Sourcing Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of sourcing consultant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for sourcing consultant
- Revisit the agreement and come up with better terms
- Grows the category assigned both through the addition of new national agreements, agreement expansion and Plan adoption/utilization
- Conduct intake meetings for new project assignments, effectively collecting the information necessary to target the required & desired knowledge, skills & abilities
- Conduct outreach to a variety of channels, including diversity & inclusion
- Provide regular recruiting status, project status reporting and key risks reviews with Recruitment and HR Business Partners
- Responsible for the execution and implementation of traditional, less complex sub-category sourcing strategies and ad-hoc sourcing
- Executes standardized strategic sourcing processes for assigned categories
- Focuses on innovation, process improvement and cost savings
- Participates in cross-enterprise commodity teams for categories and aggressively tracks and improves non-compliance preferred supplier(s)
- Develop trusted advisor relationships with key internal customers
Qualifications for sourcing consultant
- Financial acumen to drive business cases and rationalize supplier proposals
- 3 years in a Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, Procurement, or Business Analyst role ideally in E&P
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in contract management, including negotiation strategy, proposal development and processes, and benchmarking vendor proposals
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in strategic sourcing with strong background expertise in Professional Services, Master services agreements (MSA) and Statement of work (SOW) related activities
- Extensive working knowledge of Ariba, standard desktop applications
- Bilingual skills as plus
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a sourcing consultant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for sourcing consultant
- Execute on tactical outreach, referral generation, events, and pipelining efforts and crafting custom outreach and meaningful candidate engagement
- Aggressively monitors, tracks and reports supplier compliance and performance benefits, reports status and trend analysis of commodity spend and savings
- Candidate should have minimum 8 years of expertise in delivering high-impact, enterprise & global scale CLM solutions
- Candidate should possess Excellent functional, business and technical skills in configuration, integration and end to end implementation/Roll outs of SAP E-Sourcing platform including RFX, e-Auctions, Contract modules and Integrations
- In-depth functional and technical expertise of SAP E-Sourcing application, specifically with configure advanced user interface customizations, workflow, custom reports design/development of custom validations for ECC/SRM integration through PI/XI for Master Data and Transactional data replications
- Candidate should have strong experience in e sourcing system build configuration activities and data loads for converting legacy data such as Vendors, Customer Data, Materials and
- Organizational Master Data for new markets and Mass data publish from e sourcing to ERP systems
- Should be able to develop custom reports and scripts to implement business logic, reporting and validations using PL/SQL and Java Classes
- Should have complete knowledge of E Sourcing to ERP & SRM interfaces and logics and validations for contracts
- Manages and analyzes departmental purchase requisitions for completeness and accuracy of information
Qualifications for sourcing consultant
- Must be customer focused, have excellent problem solving, organization, communication and people skills
- Familiarity and working knowledge with sourcing terminology- Boolean Searches, X-ray
- Experience with Kinaxis RapidResponse for Order Fulfillment, Master Planning & Production Scheduling, Supply Action Management, Aggregate Supply Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Planning
- 2-3 years’ experience as IT solution architect in large scale enterprises
- Significant Agile project experience preferred
- Application Architecture experience is a plus and will be required