Strategic Sourcing Director
- Full-time
- Alternate Location: Los Angeles, United States
Company Description
Job Description
Square has an exciting career opportunity for a Global Procurement professional. The position will manage a portfolio of Source to Contract and Procure to Pay transformational initiatives. This is an opportunity for a highly motivated individual with a demonstrated background in global procurement capable of both hands-on individual contribution and strong leadership. The role will focus on driving efficiency through process and system optimization as well as driving incremental value to reduce total cost of ownership so Square.
The individual must demonstrate highly effective collaboration internally and externally, have a passionate focus on success, commitment to continuous improvement and a relentless drive to win. The successful candidate must have strong analytical and communication skills, a proven ability to build relationships with senior level stakeholders across the organization, and a variety of category(ies) experience. The position will report to the Global Procurement Lead.
The primary responsibilities include:
Driving continuous improvement in sourcing optimization and procurement transformation
Continually exploring new technologies to optimize performance, efficiency, and transparency to stakeholders
Collaborating and coordinating with technology team to maintain and enhance OracleCloud
Review existing contracts and understand business requirements; formulate guidelines and design standard vendor contract protocols
Executing on vendor life-cycle strategy to oversee planning, sourcing and selection of new vendors, manage data for vendor performance and manage vendor off-boarding and transition
Establishing and maintaining effective partnerships with key stakeholders aimed at identifying, understanding and fulfilling their requirements
Proactively collaborating with business partners and stakeholders to lead contract negotiation with suppliers; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify key benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements
Development of financial analytics to support commercial term negotiations with performance dashboards and ROI based evaluation tools
Identification and realization of cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities and build a culture of long-term savings on procurement costs without compromising supply assurance or quality
Serve as a hands-on leader that understands and performs the daily tactical and strategic functions as necessary
Supporting internal and external audit, SOX compliance and due diligence requests as necessary
Supporting other ad hoc projects as needed
Additional Information
Perks
At Square, we want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness perks
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Learning and Development resources