Senior Sourcing Associate - Corporate (Las Vegas)

JOB SUMMARY: 

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Lead the development, implementation, and alignment of sourcing strategies for key commodities and spend categories within the casino industry. Candidates require substantial recent, proven experience in a procurement function involved in high risk, high value, services and supplies covering a range of categories and commodities.
• Identify, develop, and manage strategic business relationships and gain a comprehensive understanding of assigned category business requirements.
• Interface and advise with senior executives to align business priorities and manage issues.
• Maintain and provide a current understanding of industry best practices and category trends to team members and business partners.
• Measure and manage the overall performance of the sourced supplier network within the assigned categories.
• Identify metrics, tools, and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities, and efficiencies, and work collaboratively with team members to prioritize and drive implementation.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders to establish short-term and long-term business objectives.
• Develop project plans, deliverables, metrics and milestones.
• Implement process disciplines and management systems necessary to achieve desired results.
• Evaluate supplier capabilities and establish sources for new suppliers and markets as business requirements dictate.
• Direct the development and negotiation of complex agreements with suppliers encompassing key program specifications and functional objectives.
• Manage governance and control programs to ensure business continuity, protect company assets, and comply with corporate and regulatory policies.
• Ensure organizational financial goals are met.
• Develop both internal and external partnerships critical to meeting objectives.
• Report annual cost savings programs and implement business strategies that directly affect company financial results and growth plans.
• Advise on supplier network capabilities and commodity/spend category trends and industry best practices.
• Effectively manage several projects.
• Will be a remote Work From Home (WFH) position.

Qualifications:

• EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
• Minimum of 4-6 years of progressive business and sourcing experience in food services and products.
• Bachelor’s or similar degree in hotel management, business, operations management.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5 years in progressively challenging roles in sourcing/negotiations/supplier management.
• 3 year’s relevant experience with food categories.
• Strong subject matter expertise in food products and services.
• Experienced in negotiating simple and complex commodity programs with a detailed understanding of operations, finance, and the evaluation of terms, pricing minimum order requirements, and service level standards.
• Ability to manage large complex projects including managing to a project timeline, ensuring quality deliverables, effective communication and project risk management.
• Subject matter expertise in strategic sourcing methodologies and working knowledge of the procurement function.
• Strong effective negotiation skills.
• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills. Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization.
• Strong computer, excel, word, power point, e-auction and systems literacy.
• Customer (internal/external) Centric.
• Leader of change.

Disclaimer

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the current job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change, (e.g. emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, rush jobs or technical developments)

About Us

At Caesars Entertainment, Inc., our Team Members create the extraordinary. We are the largest casino-entertainment company in the U.S. and one of the world's most diversified casino-entertainment providers. Since beginning in Reno, Nevada, in 1937, Caesars Entertainment has grown through the development of new resorts, expansions and acquisitions. Our resorts operate primarily under the Caesars®, Harrah's®, Horseshoe® and Eldorado® brand names. We focus on building loyalty and value with our guests through a combination of impeccable service, operational excellence and technological leadership. The company is committed to its Team Members, suppliers, communities and the environment through