Sr. Manager, Enterprise Procurement

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary

The Comcast Enterprise Procurement team spans Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky, proactively managing a trusted supplier network across the globe to protect our business and drive long-term value. We utilize expertise, scale, and a deep-rooted understanding of our business to navigate the global marketplace – balancing value, risk, and social responsibility to deliver for our clients, our suppliers, and the communities we serve. Our team accelerates transformation and innovation by bringing together the right people, products and services and create the technologies and experiences that our brands are known for. We create connections across Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky to generate greater value for our business and opportunities for our teammates – today, and in the future.

Comcast is seeking Sr. Manager, Enterprise Procurement to advance our Comcast Contingent Solutions program in support of Comcast’s global expansion initiative.

Job Description

In partnership with our Finance, Legal, Compliance, Security, and Privacy teams, Comcast Enterprise Procurement has established US based contingent labor and services procurement program. We are currently looking to further expand our program to all Comcast geographies creating a centralized Source-to-Pay (S2P) experience.

The Sr. Manager. Enterprise Procurement plays a pivotal role in further advancing our industry leading program into a global contingent labor workforce solution to centrally orchestrate sourcing, contracting, risk and compliance controls, and vendor management activities.

The role is responsible for leading a team of cross departmental individuals driving global sourcing, procurement, and planning operations’ goals and objectives. This role requires strategic thinking, strong negotiation skills, and a deep understanding of market dynamics to optimize procurement strategies and drive cost efficiencies.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead Comcast’s contingent labor program including oversight of Managed Services Partner and Vendor Management System operations.
• Provide thought leadership, develop, and execute contingent labor strategies and Vendor Management strategies, and advancing Source to Pay (S2P) experience to next generation Procurement.
• Partner with Procurement category leads and program boundary partners to enhance systems and processes, strategies to drive workforce optimization, compliance controls.
• Support strategic, global, cross-functional operations and programs including managing expectations with stakeholders, identifying risks, and clearly communicating to internal and external stakeholders.
• Mentor and advance a team of professionals supporting contingent labor sourcing, contracting, resource management, and business processes.
• Leverage data analytics to generate actionable insights, drive continuous improvement, and enrich the program experience.
• Manages vendor/supplier relationship and interfaces with key executives on supplier issues.
• Coordinates and reports procurement activities, plans and results with key representatives across several departments.
• Assesses market conditions that may effect procurements, continually. Anticipates and formulates alternative solutions based upon market changes.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated Client-side professional services and contingent labor category management work experience overseen global contingent labor program in excess of $750M.
• Experience in leading Global VMS solution implementation with multi-currency, multi-geography, multi-entity, and cross border payment complexity.
• Deep functional knowledge on Vendor Management System (VMS) technologies such as Beeline, AgileOne, Fieldglass, and boundary systems such as Oracle Financials, Fusion, and Workday.
• Creative thinking and the ability to articulate a vision to teams across the organization.
• Experience working in a fast-pace