Alliance/Partner Management, Analysis Skills, Benchmarking, Best Practices, Budgeting, Category Development, Category Management, Communication Skills, Competitive Analysis/Strategy, Contract Negotiation, Cost Control, Data Analysis, Financial Strategy, Industry/Trade Analysis, Marketing, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Procurement Management, Procurement Strategy, Purchasing/Procurement, QoS (Quality of Service), Request for Proposals (RFP), Risk Management, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Vendor/Supplier Management, Vendor/Supplier Planning, Vendor/Supplier Relations, Writing Skills
About the Role
In this role, you will partner with our brands & corporate functions across the globe, to continuously drive value across Non-Merchandise categories. You will establish, analyze, and refine the business's procurement strategy ensuring alignment with business goals. Make certain we Do The Right Thing as an organization by optimizing our purchasing power, building and maintaining strategic vendor relationships, and contract management.
What You'll Do
- Drive cost optimization, excellence in sourcing capabilities and minimize risk
- Facilitate contract negotiations/RFP process and category reviews
- Establish and maintain effective business partnerships with vendors and functional areas to maximize financial strategy
- Provide insight into industry trends, market intelligence, and supplier development
- Responsible for quality of services and advice in meeting business partner needs
- Responsible for end results of team and shares responsibility over resources, budget and adherence to policies
Who You Are
- Ability to successfully partner across varied functions and levels with senior internal stakeholders, external suppliers, agencies and colleagues to drive results and influence change
- Develop category knowledge and regularly leverage industry experts, associations, peers and stakeholders to identify and benchmark best practices
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills to influence egotiate the overall sourcing process
- Ability to assess relatively complex situations and analyze data to make judgments and recommend solutions
- Understanding of concepts and procedures specific to own subject area (add subject area here)
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The Gap Inc
Doris and Don Fisher opened the first Gap store in 1969 with a simple idea -- to make it easier to find a pair of jeans and a commitment to do more. Over the last 46 years, the company has grown from a single store to a global fashion business with five brands -- Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta and Intermix. Gap's clothes are available in 90 countries worldwide through 3,300 company-operated stores, almost 400 franchise stores, and e-commerce sites and is still growing.
Many companies work to improve their services and businesses every day by using GAP Testers who anonymously go into various places and report back to the companies on everything from cleanliness, customer service to quality control. Being a tester is a very flexible, fun job with lots of benefits.