Senior Strategic Procurement Advisor

Job Family

Procurement

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Our Procurement Team has an exciting opening for a Sr. Strategic Procurement Advisor role in our Business Enablement Procurement group. In this role you will lead procurement strategy development, supplier selection, contracting and relationship management for your assigned areas in the corporate services space. Priority consideration for candidates with Indirect Procurement Experience (e.g. Marketing, HR, Office Supplies).

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Performs a full range of contracting duties and responsibilities, which include redlining, negotiation and award, gathering subject matter expert feedback, contract modification, resolution of performance problems and complex payment issues, and contract termination.

• Creates and administers supplier request for proposals (RFPs).

• Works independently to execute category, commodity or supplier specific sourcing strategies for high complexity transactions and drive this across functional organizations and business units to affect policies, processes and procedures having an impact on revenue and profitability.

• Performs market research and analysis to understand and document competitive supplier landscape, service capabilities, and opportunities.

• Serves as a trusted adviser to the business unit in all acquisition related matters, from pre-award strategic planning to contract close out actions.

• Collaborates with internal teams, including the business unit, legal, privacy, and information security to align procurement strategies with business goals and project requirements, and ensure sourced materials meet all required specifications and company guidelines.

• Fosters strong relationships with key suppliers to enhance collaboration, communication, and partnership.

• Resolves supplier issues that arise and escalates issues as needed to Senior Management.

• Performs program management activities for procurement-owned programs, as applicable to the commodity area.  Duties include but are not limited to:  managing catalogs, researching new suppliers, maintaining relationships, and identifying savings and value add opportunities within managed programs.

• Makes continuous improvement recommendations to relevant processes, procedures, policies and systems.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, operations management, or other directly applicable field or equivalent education/experience.

• At least 5 ye