Manager, Sourcing & Supplier Management at Mastercard

Job description

Job Summary

• Sourcing & Supplier Management creates and maximizes shareholder value by effectively managing the MasterCard supply base across all business units, focusing on reducing cost & risk while improving value & supplier performance.
• This organization includes Sourcing Strategy, Sourcing Operations and Supplier Management and is on a journey to be recognized as a premier supply chain organization.
• Leverages MasterCard’s global demand to develop and implement category strategies that enable spend management, improve supplier performance, and mitigate risk.
• Partners with the Category Management team to develop category expertise, market conditions, industry trends, product knowledge, benchmarking, and emerging supply options.
• Partners with Supplier Management to develop supplier strategies that will reduce risk, improve supplier performance while enabling supplier diversity and innovation
• Have you ever developed and implemented global strategies?
• Have you ever led large-scale negotiations?
• Are you able to influence others and resolve complex problems?
• Are you comfortable challenging status quo and able to drive change?

Role

• Collaborate with internal business partners to identify requirements and develop strategies for key categories and critical suppliers
• Lead the 6-step Strategic Sourcing Process for assigned categories which includes analyze spend, define requirements, develop a strategy, author RFx's, negotiate contracts, award and implement contracts
• Support Supplier Lifecycle Management activities including; supplier discovery, supplier risk management, supplier performance management, supplier contract management, supply chain sustainability & social responsibility, supplier development (including diverse supplier development).
• Assist in the streamlining tasks and building technological efficiencies in an effort to improve processes while maintaining a high quality work product
• Drive the financial and risk conversations with your internal business partners from a sourcing perspective to ensure compliance to sourcing policy and achieve financial efficiencies

All About You

• Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to work with people at all levels in the organization
• Innovative thinking, strong ability to identify procurement opportunities and implement effectively
• Proven ability to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Ability to organize, manage and work effectively to accomplish multiple tasks
• Very strong analytical skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
• Strong ability to speak, read & write in simplified Chinese
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Experience in a strategic sourcing role in a best-in-class organization preferred
• Extensive internal and external communication skills required with operations, corporate personnel, and external suppliers
• Advanced contract negotiation experience and training
• Experience with Ariba sourcing systems is preferred
• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA or Master's degree strongly preferred

Equal Opportunity Employer