The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) is the world’s leading integrated producer of concentrated phosphate and potash—two of the three most important nutrients in agriculture. We employ more than 13,000 people in six countries to serve farmers all over the world. Our Headquarters is in Lithia, Florida with operations throughout North America (U.S./Canada) and South America.
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Strategic Sourcing Manager, Corporate Procurement IT
Where will you work: Hybrid (Wednesday's/Friday's remote) with an option to work a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off- 13830 Circa Crossing Drive | Lithia, Florida 33547
As a strategic sourcing manager of corporate IT procurement, you will develop and implement improved strategic sourcing policies for our IT contracts. Every day you will create cost estimates, forecasts, negotiate cost-effective contracts with key suppliers, and oversee our sourcing team in their mission to create higher profit margins and competitive advantage in the agriculture industry. You will thrive in this role if you demonstrate sound knowledge of negotiation strategies and extensive experience in information technology supply chain and/or procurement.
What you’ll do?
- Develop procurement strategies in conjunction with the key BU leaders and stakeholders. (Business Strategy Development)
- Provide center-led direction on company practices, policy and procedure in the procurement area.
- Conduct training and information meetings.
- Communicate internal control and compliance requirements and monitor demand-to-settle process performance. (Process Optimization and Internal
- Controls)
- Track and report Supplier scorecards, KPIs, and performance measures.
- Conduct regular Supplier Performance and Alliance Relationship review meetings.
- Develop, monitor, and review supplier contracts to ensure supplier performance, user adoption and compliance. (Contract Management and Strategic
- Sourcing Processes)
- Collect, analyze and monitor requirements and specific information on category and supplier spend, standards, specifications, and industry
- benchmarks. (Industry Knowledge)
- Perform value-engineering analyses and purchasing guidance in conjunction with the key stakeholders to effect cost optimization for the corporation
- for materials and services. (Supplier Rationalization/Consolidation)
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, finance or related field
- 5+ years relevant professional or managerial experience in business
- 5+ years procurement experience specifically including souring, contract negotiations and vendor management
- 5+ years negotiating complex technology contracts including software, SaaS, hardware, cloud computing, and professional services with a preference for
- expertise with AWS, Oracle and key SaaS providers.
- Prior project management experience
- Demonstrated experience driving procurement KPIs to deliver results
- Proven experience in developing and implementing cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives and Supplier partnering Experienced-to-Advanced
- MS Office products including MS Access
- Exceptional leadership skills with a customer-centric attitude
- Demonstrated history of solid finance, quantitative and analytical skills
- Demonstrated mastery in building and maintaining interpersonal relationships at all levels of the organization
- Proven ability to negotiate substantial and complex contracts
Bonus points if you have the following:
- CPM, CPSM, or CPSD certification
- Ariba, Fieldglass, Maximo, SAP
What's in it for you:
- An attractive base salary + an annual incentive
- 11 paid holidays each year
- 401k with a company match and annual company contributions
- Paid sick leave for when you need it
- Paid vacation (commensurate with work experience)
- A robust benefits package which includes Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
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