Strategic Sourcing Analyst ( m/f/d)

Job Posting Title: Strategic Sourcing Analyst ( m/f/d)  
Job ID: 149642  
Job Code: 30004217    
Business Unit: [[businessUnit]]  
Building: Krakow (N60)  
Band/Level: 5-2-C 
Hiring Manager: LUCYNA JOZWIAK  
Recruiter: Michaela Bednarova  
Relocation: No  
Travel: Less than 10%  
Employee Referral Amount: zł6,000.00  
Education Experience: Other  
Employment Experience: 3-5 years  

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. 

Why you should join?

To ensure efficient back‑office operations, TE Connectivity has established insourced regional shared service centers (*) that now manage centralized processing of selected procurement activities, including PR/PO processing as well as Category Execution and Strategic Sourcing. With the insourcing now completed, the Indirect Procurement CE team plays a critical role in executing regional strategies for the assigned commodities. The team actively supports and partners with Commodity Management on strategic initiatives, business planning, and forecasting activities.

(*) PSC: Procurement Shared Center

Your main tasks:

This position will report to the PSC CE Team Leader and be a member of the PSC teams focusing on all the aspects of tactical and strategic procurement for his/her assigned commodities.

 

Key attributes of this role include:

• Experience in indirect commodity support and strategic sourcing
• Experience in at least one of the commodity category: Facilities, MRO and Spare Parts, HR, Corporate Services or IT
• Good understanding of end-to-end S2P processes and associated technology platforms
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills, solid problem solving and detail oriented
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work with deadlines
• Ability to work in culturally diverse teams with many levels of personnel.
• Experience in a shared service center if possible

 

 

• Become a Subject Matter Expert for assigned commodities
• Data or requirement gathering, market desk research, TCO calculation, benchmarking
• Organizing weekly regional commodity calls with Commodity Management and buyers
• Go-To person in case buyers have commodity specific questions
• Support and partner with Commodity Management towards strategic projects and business planning and forecasting (prioritization of opportunities based on Saving Potential v/s Effort Required)
• CE’s are expected to help identify projects through spend analytics and opportunity identification
• CE‘s manage strategic and sourcing projects as assigned by Commodity Management and upon approval of project charter detailing scope, milestones, objectives, timeline
• Manage end-to-end own sourcing project from ideation to contract execution and ordering
• Sourcing activities to be based on the guidelines in the commodity playbook and other relevant documentation (Standard Operating Procedures)
• Set selection criteria for the suppliers to be invited in RFX’s
• Understand suppliers and their capabilities
• Enforce use and acceptance of TE contract templates with all suppliers
• Collecting supplier quotations
• Comparing supplier offered prices and proposals
• Calculate savings as per the quotations
• Agree on which supplier to select with Commodity Management and/or Stakeholders
• Report productivity in relevant system
• Manage own contracts (redlining, alignment with stakeholders, negotiation with suppliers, interaction with Legal dept.) up to final execution
• Ensure executed contracts are properly uploaded in the contract repository
• Support implementing new contracts, and uploading metadata to contract database
• Participate in Global/Regional Commodity supplier review and internal meetings with TE Stakeholders as required
• Provide commodity specific training to new joiners (buyers)
• Ensure compliance with applicable TE policies
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the function, ensuring that improvements are incorporated in the work routine
• Build relationship with key stakeholders including suppliers
• Build strong relationship with Commodity Management & Buyers
• Attend team meetings and trainings as required.

Your ideal background:

 

Qualifications:

• Good Experience in Indirect Procurement (5+ years)
• Previous experience in Strategic Sourcing preferred
• Good of MS office; very good Excel and other