Sourcing Specialist

TekWissen LLC

New York, NY

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$50–$51
SKILLS
Bidding, Biology, Budgeting, Business Operations, Business Strategy, Cancer, Cell Biology, Consulting, Contract Creation, Contract Negotiation, Cost Control, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Collection, Data Entry, Diversity, Expense Analysis, Finance, Healthcare, Immunology, Leadership, Market Research, Negotiation Skills, Operations Management, Organizational Development/Management, Pricing, Problem Solving Skills, Product Pricing, Project/Program Management, Purchasing/Procurement, Requirements Management, Research & Development (R&D), Risk Management, Sales Closing Skills, Sales Prospecting, Sourcing Strategy, Statement of Work (SOW), Strategic Planning, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Supply Chain Management, Translational Research, Vendor/Supplier Evaluation, Vendor/Supplier Relations, Vendor/Supplier Selection, Vendor/Supplier Sourcing, Workforce Management, eSourcing
LOCATION
New York, NY
POSTED
3 days ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client, is a world-leading cancer treatment and research institution based in Manhattan, New York. Founded in 1884, Our client is now a premier National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer center. Its integrated care model bridges personalized patient treatment with innovative translational research in cancer biology, immunology, cell biology, and more. The institution remains committed to "ending cancer for life" through top-tier clinical care, ambitious research programming, and ongoing clinical trials.

Job Title: Sourcing Specialist
Location: New York, NY 10017
Duration: 6+ Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Remote
Job Description:
  • The Sourcing Specialist is responsible for handling the organization's end to end sourcing operations by implementing sourcing plans and tactics to effectively manage assigned commodities.
  • Responsibilities include the ability to appraise and improve organization sourcing activities by analyzing the company's spending, supply partnerships and identifying new opportunities to improve cost savings.
Sourcing Strategy and Development:
  • Develop sourcing strategies that align with organizational goals/objectives, budget targets and operational requirements to minimize the organizational risk. Strategies should be developed using spend analysis data, stakeholder input and knowledge of the supplier community.
  • Perform data collection and conduct spend analysis at the organizational level, divisional level, commodity level and supplier level to identify opportunities and cross-over of common items purchased.
  • Conduct Market Research to identify new technologies, identify sourcing/supplier trends.
  • Complete robust spend analytics to mine opportunities.
  • Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms.
Sourcing Management:
  • Oversee the RFx process and provide the leadership role in sourcing events to be executed.
  • Negotiate contracts that support the sourcing strategies, collaborating with key stakeholders and departments.
  • Negotiate and develop contract terms and conditions that minimize risks to client and are consistent with the service level expectations of the internal client and the statement of work defined for the competitive bid process.
  • Develop and route the contract cover sheet.
  • Identify and vet preferred supplier capabilities, financial stability and standing in the market.
  • Identify optimal method(s) of supplier selection when identifying new opportunities or product pricing.
  • Manage cross-organizational integrative activities with suppliers and the rest of the organization.
Customer Relationship Management:
  • Develop good working relationships with the end-user community by establishing ongoing, consistent meetings to gather ongoing spend requirements that will enable the departments to manage business operations.
  • Act as internal consultant, facilitator, and problem solver.
Supplier Relationship Management:
  • Understand the supplier business regarding existing product line, and research and development of future technology with potential impact to contract terms and pricing.
  • Gather information on supplier performance in order to provide input into the strategic sourcing process for future sourcing events.
Professional Development:
  • Develop annual individual development plan to gain additional knowledge in areas of healthcare Industry, changes in the industry and procurement functions.
Required Skills & Experience:
  • Four (4)-seven (7) years of sourcing experience.
  • Demonstrated project management skills required including identifying project deliverables and developing critical milestones to meet project goals.
  • Negotiation of contracts.
  • Creating and developing relationships and leading projects and sourcing events.
  • Leading meetings with Suppliers and Customers to keep project goals and objectives on track.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
  • Experience in Healthcare.
Required Education: Bachelor's Degree in any Business or Finance discipline.
Preferred Education:
  • Master's Degree in Business/Finance or emphasis in Supply Chain Management.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/