Associate Director - Networks Sourcing

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What you’ll be doing...

The Associate Director Network Sourcing will be responsible for the development and implementation of the Category Strategy. They will lead a team of Category Sourcing Experts. They will establish and execute sourcing strategies, manage supplier relationships, negotiation, risk management and supply base performance management.

The successful candidate will be a dynamic professional with a transformational approach to Sourcing, with the knowledge, skills, abilities and experience to design and execute strategies in a global environment.
You will be responsible for a team of direct reports, working collaboratively with stakeholders to develop and implement sourcing strategies to solve business problems.

The role involves;

• Collaborating closely with key business partners to understand their priorities and challenges; assess their needs on an ongoing basis; and manage their expectations.

• Partnering with our business stakeholders to develop & Implement Category & Sourcing strategies.

• Driving all aspects of complex strategic sourcing process.

• Lead, manage, coach and develop a team of Category experts.

• Responsible for ensuring that sourcing strategy’s result in and generate roadmaps of savings and value streams, and where appropriate, innovation opportunities.

• Responsible for negotiation planning and contracting with suppliers, ensuring that agreements reflect Verizon’s needs globally.

• Developing Category Savings roadmap, Maintain and Track Savings.

• Responsible for executing supplier relationship management activities, effectively maintaining positive and ethical working relationships.

• Leveraging market dynamics and mitigating risk.

• Balance short as well as long term objectives to meet business strategy and efficiencies in alignment with business stakeholders.

• Supplier rationalization – leverages existing supplier base to appropriately consolidate products & services.

• Assigns resources to sourcing projects, tracks overall progress and ensures successful completion of sourcing projects on-time.

• Strong leadership abilities with a proven ability to engage and influence collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Responsible for managing all personnel-related activities such as: recruitment, compensation planning, performance appraisals, personal development and team planning.

• Draft customized development plans to ensure each team member focuses on training, improving skill sets and enhancing the value they deliver to the company.

• You will also be expected to take on additional projects as needed to support business requirements.

What we’re looking for...

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong team leadership skills.

• Extensive experience in sourcing.

• Proven ability to drive change and transformation.

You’ll need to have:

• Knowledge of Strategic Sourcing processes, policies, and procedures.

• Strong negotiation skills and cost management practices.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work in a fast paced matrixed global environment.

• Project Management in complex multi-project and multi-geography environment.

• Self-motivated /self-starter with ability to work independently.

• Analytical and/or technical experience with strong attention to detail.

• Strong presentation skills and ability to prepare and present across multiple organizational leadership levels.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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