Description

Overview:

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer's and partner's needs and solve their challenges.

Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You'll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about-locally and globally.

Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

What We're Looking For:
This is the first role of three Individual Contributor roles that builds category expertise, displays efficiency and effectiveness of project management, brings an innovation mindset and embraces the change for the Procurement organization. More specifically, the Sourcing and Procurement Specialist Senior provides leadership and project management with the capability to manage and deliver focused projects from the simple to complex. Additionally, he/she possesses a fair category experience across many different categories, which allows for flexible work assignments. Lastly, the key focus for the Specialist Senior role is to support the business stakeholders to identify, define and execute key projects that support their defined business goals and objectives over a 12-36-month horizon.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Inspire trust and confidence with executive leadership.
• Engage with management team and stakeholder team members to drive strategic initiatives effectively balancing the RFx process and the TCO evaluation of suppliers against the business stakeholder's requirements and supplier preferences.
• Ability to simultaneously manage 2-3 simple to moderately complex projects, supporting all deliverables, analytics, negotiations and project management details. These projects will generally be regional in scope and will support the business function's goals and objectives. Typically, these projects will have a single function impact and involve small sized project teams representing the primary business area.
• Work on full sourcing process- inclusive of supply market analysis, leverage spend, establishing business requirements, driving requirements, negotiating SOWs, contract terms, executing and monitoring complex contracts, conducting and monitoring supplier business reviews.
• With little instruction, collaborate with key stakeholders to develop annual category management plan that incorporates the stakeholder's strategy, goals, challenges, constraints and objectives with a 1 to 3-year time horizon - key outputs included but not limited to spend breakdown, strategic sourcing pipeline, process improvements, supplier rationalizations, targeted supplier business reviews, sourcing levers, etc.
• Ability to maintain accountability, delivering against timelines, building relationships and becoming a trusted advisor with business stakeholders, executive management and suppliers.
• Perform total cost of ownership evaluations, perform supply-market research and conduct pricing audits, and impact analysis for the pursuit of continuous cost improvements.
• Work collaboratively with suppliers and stakeholders to identify and execute continuous cost improvement programs and resolve strategic supplier performance issues to ensure business satisfaction.
• Contribute to measuring success, including savings, innovation related to process improvements, improved delivery and simplified processes
• Maintain a high level of product and industry awareness to keep current on best practices, new suppliers, market trends, etc.

Job Requirements

• Preferred Education: Bachelor's degree required with a preference for Accounting/Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related; MBA, CPSM is a plus
• Preferred Work Experience (years): 5+ years as a sourcing and procurement professional

Key Skills and Competencies

• Strategic Sourcing
• Stakeholder Management
• Project Management
• Spend Analytics
• Supplier Management
• Contract Compliance
• Strategic Collaboration Management
• Executive Presentation
• Project Management
• Proficiency in spreadsheet software (e.g. Microsoft Excel) and presentation software (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint)

Benefits:

We understand the importance of work-life balance and wellbeing, which is why we offer flexibility for our teams including: hybrid work, adaptable hours, Summer Flex Fridays, Focus Fridays, and an annual companywide well-being day to promote revitalization and success.

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