Purchasing Lead - Strategic Sourcing (Marketing & IT Spend)

Published: 6/14/2022

Job Description

hiring a Purchasing Lead for a growing digital marketing company in the automotive retail space. You'll own end-to-end strategic sourcing for digital marketing, advertising, technology and general business spend, and present sourcing strategies to VPs and above.

What you'll do:

Lead sourcing for indirect spend categories: advertising, media, digital, PR, market research, software, consulting and staff augmentation
Run competitive bid events, recommend suppliers and make sourcing awards
Negotiate contracts and purchase order terms with Legal to secure favorable terms
Build total cost of ownership and financial analyses; document all cost savings and cost avoidance
Lead supplier risk assessments (financial, legal, security and privacy) with the Security and Privacy teams, including onsite supplier reviews
Set benchmarks, track market conditions and improve sourcing policies, procedures and training
Review single-source requests and track invoices against approved POs
Use contract management tools (Gatekeeper) and ERP (NetSuite), and use AI tools to work faster and more accurately

Required:

Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field
5+ years of strategic sourcing for marketing and IT spend
5+ years of contract negotiation
4+ years in digital media, advertising and marketing
4+ years in IT: software, consulting or staff augmentation
4+ years building strategies and leading initiatives
ERP and contract management system experience (Gatekeeper, NetSuite)
Comfortable using AI tools, with a good sense of their limits
Able to present to and build credibility with executives
Strong Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Nice to have: MBA or finance degree; experience building a sourcing method from scratch.