This role will serve as a strategic leader and contact point responsible for building and managing relationships with key suppliers and Intuit business owners and will be required to identify strategic sourcing initiatives, drive cost savings, quality improvement, identify and impact efficiencies and support growth strategies within the respective departments supported.
This role also requires the development and execution of sourcing strategies, with an equal emphasis placed on the ability to identify, analyze, and quantify opportunities as well as the ability to manage/lead RFI and RFPs and handle vendor negotiations.
What you'll bring
- Relevant industry experience
- Experience with ERP and Source-to-Pay tools
- Experience developing and/or presenting business cases
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or otherquantitative discipline
- 5-7 years of sourcing experience (e.g., RFI/RFQ/RFP, reverse auctions, interests-based direct negotiations)
- Experience negotiating with suppliers
- Experience in contract development, administration, and/or management
- Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment
- Must read, write and speak the local language fluently
- Experience in negotiating deals with global vendors
- Experience in managing global vendor relationships
- Solid financial and/or quantitativemodeling
- Comfort with written and verbal communication of quantitative and qualitative information with executives
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time
- Availability to directly support and interact with multiple international business units
Desired skills:
- A proven track record of cost reduction and productivity improvements; ability to influence and drive change while building solid relationships with your internal clients and external vendors
- Internal or external business consultingexperience highly desired
- Knowledge and interest in key sourcing areas such as:
- Professional Services
- Financial Services
- Facility Services, Construction & Maintenance
- Customer Success and Care
- Marketing
- Knowledge of global supply base
- Strong analytical skills; MS Excel proficient; financial modeling preferred
- Strong written and communication skills;MS PowerPoint, MS Word proficient
- Ability to work independently as well as lead and participate in cross functional teams
- Ability to collaborate in a team environment
- Awareness of best practices regarding vendor management (e.g., strategic alliances, supplier certification, etc.)
- Excellent documentation and requirements analysis
- Attention to detail and ability to analyze complex data.