Strategic Sourcing Analyst

  • Full-time

Company Description

Make an impact with SGS! With more than 94,000 employees and 2,000 offices and laboratories across the world, SGS is a silent force working hard behind the scenes to deliver quality and integrity to businesses across nine industries.

Job Description

  • The Sr. Sourcing Analyst will focus on analyzing the data as well as leading certain categories within North America. Manages a spend of $100M+ within a large, complex, dynamic, and regulated matrix organization.
  • Establishes and maintains regional business partner relationships with key stakeholders to ensure deep understanding of needs and strategies
  • Manages the strategic sourcing of MRO, Field equipment, Waste and Office Stationery categories across multiple business lines; performs the end-to-end sourcing and stakeholder engagement process.
  • Develops and drives category strategies including market assessment, internal and external, influences, pricing drivers, analysis, etc.
  • Partners, interfaces, and builds relationships with internal customers to understand their requirements for products and services.
  • Negotiations, development and execution of supplier agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, and RFx documents with the objective of creating strategic business opportunities and savings for the organization.
  • Builds and maintains strategic supplier relationships to help reduce costs and eliminate inefficiencies.
  • Utilizes multi-step sourcing to gather requirements, launch RFx initiatives, evaluate and analyze results, and communicate recommendations to all levels of the organization and external supply base.
  • Evaluates and manipulates supplier spend data to assess savings opportunities and develop category strategies.

 

Qualifications

  • Business Degree or equivalent
  • SCMP Supply Chain Management Procurement Certification or equivalent (is a plus)
  • 3 – 5 years of Strategic Sourcing Experience on the roles and responsibilities outlined in this job description
  • Strong leadership and people management skills with and ability to lead cross function teams and obtain buy-in. 
  • Strong planning, organization, analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Strong customer service, internal and external client support
  • Proficient in using various types of computer software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • Proven time management skills and a strong attention to detail.
  • Works well under pressure.
  • Extended hours and shift work may be required from time to time.
  • Travel to other SGS locations or client location may be required from time to time.

Additional Information

SGS Canada is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to achieving greater accessibility by providing accommodation for people with disabilities during our hiring process. Accommodations are available on request for qualified candidates during each stage of the recruitment process.

Please note that candidates applying for Canadian job openings should be authorized to work in Canada.

Job Type: Full Time

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