The Strategic Sourcing Assistant supports the Vice President, Procurement with administrative, P2P, analytical, review, evaluation, and coordination activities, and supports the Procurement Manager with sourcing data, RFx events, supplier reviews, and assigned procurement categories.
- Strategic Sourcing Support: Supports the Vice President with administrative coordination, P2P activities, reviews, quick evaluations, follow-up actions, and procurement communications.
- Supports the Procurement Manager by collecting and analyzing spend, supplier, pricing, and category data and preparing summaries and recommendations.
- Coordinates RFx activities by gathering requirements, preparing documents, supporting RFI, RFP, and RFQ launches, and tracking responses, clarifications, deadlines, and approvals.
- Assists with real estate, travel, fleet, facilities, operating supplies, logistics, and other categories through research, benchmarking, evaluations, and stakeholder coordination.
- Supports requisitions, purchase orders, invoice issue resolution, trackers, reports, dashboards, presentations, and procurement file maintenance.
- Assists with supplier evaluations, bid comparisons, savings validation, sourcing implementation, and action-item follow-up.
- Adheres to internal standards, policies and procedures.
- Supplier Management: Supports supplier relationship and performance reviews by compiling reports, issues, action items, and evaluation information.
- Coordinates review meetings, collects information, documents decisions, and tracks agreed actions.
- Reviews supplier reporting to help validate Service Level Agreements (SLAs), pricing, and key performance indicators.
- Maintains issue logs, follows up on open items, and escalates material concerns.