Strategic Sourcing Manager - Advertising Production Firm

A leading Advertising Production firm is seeking to hire the undersaid

Strategic Sourcing Manager

Responsibilities

- Network across PAN India.

- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and develop sourcing strategies which help support their business.

- Identify opportunities for increased competitive bidding, smarter supplier relationships and more efficient processes. Collaborate with teams across the globe to speed up innovation.

- Know the supply market (or have the research skills to be able to come up to speed quickly) in order to educate stakeholders and make better decisions.

- Manage robust supplier selection processes using market analysis, concise request for proposals (RFPs), eAuctions and a data driven approach.

- Manage the company's supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending

- Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies

- Analyze and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure

- Invent negotiation strategies and secure profitable deals

- Optimize sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency

- Cooperate with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes

- Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers

- Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking

- Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques

- Discover and partner with trustworthy vendors and suppliers

- Determine quantity and timing of deliveries