Strategic Sourcing Manager

Strategic Sourcing Manager

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

How you'll make your mark:

• Lead a complex individual supply chain sub-category; including data and industry analysis; report results to senior managers.

• May lead an international, cross-functional team.

• Meet with Stakeholder senior managers to understand business priorities and translate them into supply chain strategies; influence the industry and marketplace within moderately complex marketplace categories.

• Develop and utilize supply chain, business, and financial modeling tools.

• Lead Supplier Selection Activities.

• Drive supply base optimization.

• Negotiate and completes contracts with complex suppliers.

• Responsible for day-to-day operations of large, moderately complex suppliers.

• Partner with suppliers in minor strategic development.

• Provide input on risk mitigation, business continuity, cost management and operation strategies.

• Assess current and evolving business models in the marketplace.

• Identify challenging contract risk areas.

• Negotiate acceptable contracting outcomes using known solutions.

• Advise senior level business leaders on contract risk areas.

About you:

• First level university degree or equivalent experience; advanced university degree preferred.

• Typically 6-10 years of experience in procurement or supply chain function.

• Excellent understanding of global procurement processes, industry, and complex suppliers.

• Excellent analytical skill and excellent business application skills (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint) and supply chain modeling skills.

• Strong knowledge, use and influence of procurement tools and applications.

• Excellent communication skills, including presentation and negotiation abilities.

• Strong Project Management Skills.

• Mastery in English and local language.

• Ability to create a contract from standard company or customized contract templates with limited supervision.

• Capable of drafting contract solutions in known contract risk areas to obtain acceptable outcomes with limited supervision.

• Strong understanding of contracting principles.

• Ability to close complex deals in a timely fashion.

• Strong ability to develop suppliers strategically.

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Bias, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Complex Project Management, Contract Management, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Customer Experience Strategy, Data Science, Design Thinking, Empathy, Engineering Product Development, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Global Sourcing, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Manufacturing Supply Chain, Negotiation {+ 4 more}

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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