Supplier Manager

Procurement Opportunity in Financial Services -

Supplier Manager

Location(s):

Atlanta: 2300 Windy Ridge Pkwy SE, Suite750, Atlanta, GA 30339

La Vista: 12325 Port Grace Blvd, La Vista, NE 68128

Oakdale: 7755 3rd St. N, Oakdale, MN 55128

Scottsdale: 18700 N Hayden Rd, Suite 255, Scottsdale, AZ 85255

St. Petersburg: 877 Executive Center Dr. W, Suite 300, St. Petersburg, FL 33702

Osaic is not considering remote candidates at this time.

Osaic has returned to the office on a hybrid schedule requiring a minimum of 4 days weekly in the office. Applicants should be located at one of our hubs listed above and must be willing to work this schedule.

Role Type: Full-time

Salary: $100,000 - $125,000 per year + annual bonus

Actual compensation offered will be determined individually, based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, licensure, experience, and education.

Our competitive compensation is just one component of Osaic’s total compensation package. Additional benefits include health, vision, dental insurance, 401k, paid time away, volunteer days and much more. To view more details of what you can look forward to, visit our careers page: .

Summary:

The Supplier Manager position will perform and support supplier engagements for internal customers throughout the supplier lifecycle. Utilize and guide stakeholders through established processes and systems that meet best in class standards established by Procurement leadership. The engagements include but are not limited to sourcing suppliers, running competitive bids with RFPs, preparing contract negotiation strategies with all relevant business requirements including cost and TCO modeling, contract lifecycle management, supplier relationship management, through off boarding or supplier terminations. Support assigned business units with category of spend strategies that tie into new supplier intake reviews, decreasing supplier base, decrease cost run rates, and aligning business requirements with the supply base. 

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree from accredited university in a Business or Finance Related Field

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated experience in supplier management, commodity management, category of spend management with increasing levels of responsibilities across all indirect categories of spend

• Understanding of contracting, contracting elements, fundamentals, and contract negotiations. Demonstrated experience and abilities to lower overall cost run rates through contracting.

• Experience with establishing and maintaining categories of spend strategies

• Intermediate experience with analytical and analysis processes, developing TCO models, pivot tables, and other excel experience for baseline comparisons of data and analysis

• Experience running RFx’s, supplier selection, and managing stakeholders through the entire process.

• Experience with project management, demonstrated project management skills within the Source to Pay lifecycle.

• Experience working with senior leaders and the ability to manage them as stakeholders as well as influence decision making.

• Experience with presenting to senior and executive management on analysis of data for decision making.

• Demonstrated experience supporting business units with supplier management issues, supplier performance, and supplier relationship issues.

• Experience with supplier reduction strategies through acquisitions and mergers.

• Thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving work environment.

• Utilize logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

• Communicate to others to convey information effectively as well as communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

• Incorporate your knowledge of shared services industry trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations and trendsetters.

• Incorporate your knowledge of and ability to utilize processes, tools, and techniques for detecting, addressing and preventing fraudulent situations.

• Utilize your creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.

• Consider the relative risks and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

• Be a financial steward on how money will be spent to get the work done, account for expenses compared to budget and potential budget impacts.

• Understands motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.

• Utilize your ability to develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and maintaining them over time.

• Incorporate a customer service-oriented function, actively looking for ways to help people.

• Knowledge of functions, features and applications of Microsoft Office; ability to use the cross-functional features of its applications to enhance overall organizational efficiency.

Basic Requirements:

• 3-5 years of experience with supplier management, commodity management, or managing categories of spend.

• 3-5 years of experience in the financial services industry

• 3-5 years of experience with sourcing and contract life cycle management systems

Preferred Requirements:

• 5-8 years of relevant work experience as a supplier manager

• 5-8 years with relevant Financial Services Industry experience

• 5-8 years of experience working with sourcing and contract life cycle management systems

• Additional Certifications in Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management, or Commodity Management. examples include ASCM (APICS), CPSM, CSMP, etc...

Osaic is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and we hire the most qualified candidates without regard for age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, language differences, nationality or national origin, family or marital status, physical, mental, and developmental abilities (or the perception of a disability), genetic information, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, skin color, social or economic class, education, work and behavioral styles, political affiliation, military service, caste, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by Osaic.

Osaic does not consider applications from candidates who do not meet the minimum qualifications stated in the job posting.

Osaic only accepts candidates from contracted recruiting firms and only for searches approved prior to submissions. Fees will not be paid for unsolicited submissions.