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Georgia Employer SENIOR MANAGER, SOURCING & PROCUREMENT in Atlanta, Georgia
Senior Manager, Sourcing & ProcurementSenior Manager, Sourcing & ProcurementSenior Manager, Sourcing & ProcurementReq IDFY24\|G&A\|#5103Location(s)Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Dallas, Texas, USA; Denver, Colorado, USA; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Portland, Oregon, USA; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Seattle, Washington, USA; Vancouver, Washington, USA;Work arrangement(s)Fully Remote (works exclusively from home), Hybrid (works from home and New Relic office throughout the week)Your opportunityNew Relic is searching for a Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager to join the Vendor Management Office (VMO). This role will support multiple verticals including (but not limited to) Go-to-Market, Marketing and Technology.You\'ll provide internal client support, handle interaction between stakeholders and suppliers for strategic sourcing purchase requests, and contract management acting as the liaison to assigned lines of business through the VMO. We need a cross-functional experienced Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager with the ability to see and link the pieces of the big picture together across functions to help our business grow and thrive.This role will be responsible for handling vendor relationships, empowered to negotiate strategic contracts, and supporting New Relic technology spend. The ideal candidate will view vendors from a life cycle perspective with a focus on reduced cost, increased customer happiness, and greater business impact.What you\'ll doDevelop and maintain positive business relationships with suppliers as well as key stakeholders and budget owners and collaborate with internal customer/category groups in a personable, approachable manner.Run negotiations for SaaS, Hosting, Services, Data Center, Public Cloud, and Cloud Subscription type agreements.Work collaboratively and cohesively at senior levels within GTM, Marketing, People and Finance departments to facilitate contract negotiations.Lead all aspects of strategic sourcing within the organization from category strategy, opportunity assessment, contract/deal negotiation, RF(x), and supplier relationship development including performance, and risk management.Support the business to accomplish key objectives including savings, avoidance, process efficiencies, supplier consolidation, risk reduction, improved clarity, and control of expenditures.Collaborate with internal and external partners including Suppliers, Budget owners, Finance (FP&A), Accounting, Legal, InfoSec, Risk, and Privacy to ensure appropriate review, approvals and contractual documentation is in order to support compliance and due diligence.Identify and communicate process improvements to ensure standard methodologies for sourcing are followed across the company globally.Develop and facilitate regular communication to ensure understanding of expectations.Perform category analysis and research to fully understand the marketplace to ensure contractual alignment with organizational needs.Present at an executive level and participate in management activities and meetingsThis role requiresBachelor/Master\'s Degree business, information systems, or related field and 5+ years of direct experience in a strategic sourcing management role.5+ years of managing strategic sourcing projects in indirect categories and experience negotiating commercial contracts, preparing and redlining in word, for software and hardware licenses, professional services agreements, statements of work, SaaS, Cloud Subscriptions, and amendments to existing contracts.Deep expertise with procurement software (e.g. Coupa, NetSuite, JIRA).Ability to build contract price modeling using a fact-based data driven approach in Excel to provide sourcing recommendations.Experience formulating methods to develop and analyze various category portfolios, including market price benchmarking and total cost ownership (TCO)... For full info follow application link.