Job Description
Title: Strategic Sourcing Generalist
Location: Remote
Pay Range: $45/hr. To $50/hr. On w2.
JOB DESCRIPTION
About the Role
The Strategic Sourcing Generalist will support procurement initiatives and contract management activities across multiple categories of spend for contracts <$100k in annual value. These activities may include, but are not limited to contract negotiation and execution, market research, and identifying opportunities for vendor consolidation. The Strategic Sourcing Generalist will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including Legal, Finance, and any stakeholders related to the categories they support.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Sourcing & Category Management
- Lead the development and execution of sourcing strategies to optimize spend, reduce risk, and enhance value and is aligned with organizational objectives.
- Identify, evaluate, and make recommendations on selection of suppliers and technologies across areas such as Software, Cloud and Hosting, Cybersecurity, Emerging Tech and other Technology related services.
- Understand the current supplier landscape and identify opportunities to consolidate demand and drive cost savings while maintaining service quality.
- Proactively update sourcing strategies based on market analysis and risk assessment, aligning with organizational goals and industry trends
- Lead supplier selection, performance management, and relationship development in partnership with internal stakeholders for contracts >$100K
- Lead negotiations of commercial terms, service-level agreements (SLAs), and licensing models to achieve favorable cost, risk, and performance outcomes.
- Partner with Legal, GRC and Information Security teams to ensure all security and business term requirements are included in contracts.
- Manage ongoing supplier relationships, performance reviews, and escalation processes.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to business units on category related procurement and sourcing matters for their respective scope.
- Proactively engage with stakeholders to understand their goals and planned initiatives.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to improve contract compliance, supplier performance, and policy adherence.
- Gather and analyze spend data to benchmark and identify opportunities for savings and efficiency.
- Create category specific cost models, including TCO analyses, to support data driven sourcing recommendations and track impact against organizational goals and metrics
- Adopt and leverage existing Procurement tools and platforms, as well as enterprise AI tools, to deliver value driven insights and recommendations
- Bachelor s degree required;MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- 3+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or supplier management, with at least 3 years focused on either:
- Technology category sourcing
- Marketing and Professional Services Category sourcing
- Familiarity with ERP systems, supplier management systems, and contract lifecycle management tools.
- CPSM, PMP, Lean/Six Sigma, or ISM certification preferred
- Basic knowledge of sourcing categories: Technology or Marketing & Professional services, including suppliers, market trends, etc.
- Excellent communication and presentation abilities, with experience influencing stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships across diverse teams.
- High level of integrity, initiative, curiosity, and organization.
Comfort with fast-paced, cross-functional mission-driven environments
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Reston, VA (Remote) |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $45 |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.lancesoft.com/ |
About Company
We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc).
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Skills
- Alliance/Partner Managementunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Benchmarkingunmatched
- Business Administrationunmatched
- Category Developmentunmatched
- Category Managementunmatched
- Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM)unmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Contract Managementunmatched
- Contract Negotiationunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Cost Modelingunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Emerging Technologyunmatched
- Expense Analysisunmatched
- Financeunmatched
- Financial Strategyunmatched
- Industry/Trade Analysisunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Internet Securityunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Lean Six Sigmaunmatched
- Legalunmatched
- Licensingunmatched
- Market Analysisunmatched
- Market Researchunmatched
- Market Trend Analysisunmatched
- Marketingunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- Performance Reviewsunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Procurement Strategyunmatched
- Professional Servicesunmatched
- Project Management Professional (PMP)unmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Riskunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Service Level Agreement (SLA)unmatched
- Sourcing Strategyunmatched
- Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)unmatched
- System Lifecycleunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Total Cost of Ownershipunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Quality Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
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