IT Procurement Sourcing Associate

At CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies, we’re driven by a unifying purpose to help people to experience life’s beautiful moments. We are connected through our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing. As a leading global manufacturer of contact lenses, we are committed to helping improve the way people see each day. Through our diverse lens portfolio, we tackle the toughest vision challenges – including astigmatism, presbyopia, and childhood myopia. We offer the most complete collection of spherical, toric, and multifocal products available, enabling us to fit 99% of all contact wearers. Learn more at www.coopervision.com.

We are seeking an experienced and strategic-minded individual to fill the role of IT Procurement Sourcing Associate. This position will be responsible for supporting our IT Procurement Sourcing Strategies on a global and regional scale, ensuring the acquisition of goods and services meets the needs of our company efficiently and cost-effectively, and for transforming the organization from locally sourced decision making to standardized solutioning. This IT Procurement Sourcing Associate will accomplish these tasks by supporting the IT Procurement Sourcing Manager and working with various business units, internal service teams, including finance, technology, information security, operations, and contract management. The successful candidate will possess strong leadership and communication abilities, exceptional negotiation skills, technology knowledge, ability to develop category strategies, and a deep understanding of IT market. 

• Support and lead implementation of the category profile and category strategy for assigned categories in collaboration with stakeholders across the CooperVision community that meets business needs and creates value for the company.
  • This includes creating category profile, category strategy, discrete value creation opportunities and methods to achieve the cost reduction opportunities.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to update the category strategy on an annual basis, or as needed, to reflect budget changes, changes to business conditions or strategic goals.
• Develop, execute and manage simultaneous regional/global sourcing events and supplier negotiations, leading to contract award in collaboration with stakeholders across the CooperVision community. 
• Ability to manage and lead the regional / global projects that impact multiple functions and involve medium to large sized project teams representing multiple business areas.
• As appropriate, support the implementation of awarded contracts including supplier enablement and buying channel enablement.  In collaboration with communication resources guide the development of stakeholder communications to support the implementation.
• Manage on-going supplier relationships for assigned categories in collaboration with stakeholders across the CooperVision community.
• Support Quarterly Business Review working sessions with key suppliers and key stakeholders to identify and execute continuous cost improvement programs and execute supplier development plans based on supplier performance and stakeholder input.
• On-going category management activities including:
  • Serves as the lead for a cross-functional strategic team that includes representation from internal customers, finance and suppliers to drive continuous improvement in the assigned categories.
  • Support the development of category strategies that are aligned with key stakeholders goals and objectives. 
  • Develop/strengthen internal customer relationships for assigned categories.
  • Serves as the point person for issue escalation and resolution relating to suppliers, pricing, continuous improvement and contract/agreement interpretation.
  • Drive contract compliance.
  • Provides relevant report to stakeholders to provide transparency and opportunities for improvements.
  • Recognized as the IT Procurement expert for the sourcing process, negotiations and contracting.   
• Inspire trust and confidence with senior leadership.
• Accountability, delivering against timelines and commitments, building relationships, and becoming a trusted advisor with business stakeholders, senior leadership, and suppliers.