Strategic Sourcing Assistant

The Strategic Sourcing Assistant supports the Vice President, Procurement with administrative, P2P, analytical, review, evaluation, and coordination activities, and supports the Procurement Manager with sourcing data, RFx events, supplier reviews, and assigned procurement categories.
Strategic Sourcing Support: Supports the Vice President with administrative coordination, P2P activities, reviews, quick evaluations, follow-up actions, and procurement communications.
Supports the Procurement Manager by collecting and analyzing spend, supplier, pricing, and category data and preparing summaries and recommendations.
Coordinates RFx activities by gathering requirements, preparing documents, supporting RFI, RFP, and RFQ launches, and tracking responses, clarifications, deadlines, and approvals.
Assists with real estate, travel, fleet, facilities, operating supplies, logistics, and other categories through research, benchmarking, evaluations, and stakeholder coordination.
Supports requisitions, purchase orders, invoice issue resolution, trackers, reports, dashboards, presentations, and procurement file maintenance.
Assists with supplier evaluations, bid comparisons, savings validation, sourcing implementation, and action-item follow-up.
Adheres to internal standards, policies and procedures.
Supplier Management: Supports supplier relationship and performance reviews by compiling reports, issues, action items, and evaluation information.
Coordinates review meetings, collects information, documents decisions, and tracks agreed actions.
Reviews supplier reporting to help validate Service Level Agreements (SLAs), pricing, and key performance indicators.
Maintains issue logs, follows up on open items, and escalates material concerns.
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
2-3 years of procurement-related experience.
Licenses and Certifications
Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM). (Preferred)
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
Strong planning, organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to handle multiple concurrent projects
Ability to work in a fast-paced, virtual and dynamic environment
Must be detail-oriented and comfortable working on your own initiative
Excellent MS Office Excel skills, including creating and manipulating pivot tables
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Familiarity with eSourcing and eBuying tools, SharePoint
Analysis and Problem Solving – Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn findings into executable plans to meet business objectives
Teamwork – Ability to work collaboratively with both suppliers and key stakeholders. To influence successfully within a matrix environment and build effective business partnerships with all levels of team members
Customer Focus - Ability to provide excellent customer service, identifying, understanding and meeting internal/external stakeholder expectations

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
Yes