Lead sourcing and supplier management activities: develop sourcing and negotiation strategies, run RFPs, evaluate vendors, draft and manage contracts, ensure vendor performance, and lead cross-functional sourcing projects to drive cost, quality, and process improvements.
Description and Requirements
• Should be able to develop sourcing strategies and negotiation strategies for assigned services and commodities
• Identifying sourcing objectives and anticipated end state, predict results that will realize cost reductions, quality improvements and process changes
• Determine needs of internal customer / line of business, and incorporate that information into the appropriate statements of work to support competitive bidding and contract completion.
• Request for response on value-based requests for proposals.
• Coordinate proposals evaluation and selection of vendors.
• Ensure contracts include appropriate vendor performance requirements, key performance measures, vendor reporting requirements, and service level requirements.
• Has working knowledge of US contract law, and have the ability to coordinate with Legal and internal customers to develop contracts and master service agreements.
• N egotiation of contract changes and extensions.
• Ability to lead multiple large strategic sourcing events concurrently.
• Strong supplier management skills.
• Strong negotiating, persuasion & influence skills
Cross-functional team leadership, including experience in establishing and managing project schedules to ensure sourcing events are completed on schedule.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
• Should be able to develop sourcing strategies and negotiation strategies for assigned services and commodities
• Identifying sourcing objectives and anticipated end state, predict results that will realize cost reductions, quality improvements and process changes
• Determine needs of internal customer / line of business, and incorporate that information into the appropriate statements of work to support competitive bidding and contract completion.
• Request for response on value-based requests for proposals.
• Coordinate proposals evaluation and selection of vendors.
• Ensure contracts include appropriate vendor performance requirements, key performance measures, vendor reporting requirements, and service level requirements.
• Has working knowledge of US contract law, and have the ability to coordinate with Legal and internal customers to develop contracts and master service agreements.
• N egotiation of contract changes and extensions.
• Ability to lead multiple large strategic sourcing events concurrently.
• Strong supplier management skills.
• Strong negotiating, persuasion & influence skills
Cross-functional team leadership, including experience in establishing and managing project schedules to ensure sourcing events are completed on schedule.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
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