Strategic Sourcing Manager, Indirect Procurement

Mission Summary:

The Team's mission is to provide seamless, customer focused services to the entire Motional Organization, and you will be a cornerstone of this team with primary focus on indirect procurement commodities that support Motional's Engineering and SG&A teams.

What you'll be doing:

• Manage strategic sourcing process and negotiate contracts at a sophisticated level
• Effectively collaborate with cross functional stakeholders (internal and external) to develop sourcing strategies that align with budget, focus on reducing cost and mitigating risk.
• Align on sourcing initiatives with several teams including but not limited to Legal and Finance, Engineering, IT, Cybersecurity, and Executive leadership
• Develop and manage sourcing events (RFx's) and vendor selection processes.
• Manage supplier management programs with defined SLAs and KPIs for key suppliers and measure the appropriate criteria, such as: delivery of business results, cost reduction, quality and timeliness of delivery
• Understand interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business reasoning to interpret application of contract to business needs.
• Support supplier onboarding and purchase requisition programs for internal stakeholders to ensure compliance with Procure to Pay policies and procedures.
• Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies
• Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories
• Establish preferred suppliers for assigned categories
• Ability to work flexible hours and support a global workforce

What we're looking for:

• 4 - 7 years of strategic sourcing experience within complex design and software development and manufacturing environments (consumer products, automotive, etc.)
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Finance, Business Administration, IT, or similar area of study. MBA, JD and CPSM, CPIM or C.P.M. certifications highly desirable
• Experience in working with a broad cross functional team in an extremely dynamic environment
• Experience working in a global environment with domestic & international suppliers
• Can do attitude, can roll up the sleeves and dive into the details quickly
• Data driven approach to tracking, monitoring and reporting on defined spend management objectives to ensure we are executing on defined goals.
• Analytical skills: spend analysis, cost modeling, and data interpretation
• Communication & collaboration: verbal, written, and presentation skills for engaging internal stakeholders and suppliers included Executive Leadership

Bonus points (not required):

• Automotive experience, especially in self driving cars
• Blue chip procurement experience (Apple, Google, Facebook, GE)
• Experience negotiating and managing Engineering service providers and enterprise software licenses
• Certification in supply chain, scrum, agile, six sigma
• Experience using Zip Procurement solution.

We encourage a hybrid schedule with in-office time at one of our locations in Boston, Pittsburgh, or Las Vegas to support collaboration, or this role can be fully remote.