Company Overview:At Everon, we truly believe that our people are the difference - for our organization, the customers we serve and the communities we protect. When you're a part of Everon, you'll have the opportunity to be a part of that difference every day. With more than 100 locations, a deep national presence, and comprehensive portfolio of solutions and services, our employees are always poised for career advancement and growth. For more information, visit www.everonsolutions.com or follow us on LinkedIn.Position Summary:The Strategic Sourcing Specialist is responsible for categories or assignments requiring application of basic sourcing, purchasing and contracting principles, theories and concepts. The Specialist will participate in some aspects of supplier selection and other sourcing decisions for indirect materials and services as assigned, ensuring product quality, delivery, and cost. Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist Strategic Sourcing Management with the implementation of new sourcing programs and developing data and other required information for supplier discussions
- Track and monitor implementation of new sourcing programs and take actions as required to ensure their successful implementation
- Execute transactional types of purchasing with Suppliers as needed. Including issuing and managing purchase orders in automated systems. Understand how to monitor and expedite purchase transactions as needed.
- Coordinate e-sourcing events for assigned categories and administer other sourcing related information in e-souring tools
- Provide data, analysis and market trend information for decision support.
- Effectively communicate and efficiently resolve issues with suppliers. Confers with suppliers to obtain product or service information, such as price, availability, and delivery schedule
- Ensures that all contract administration procedures are followed and executed in a professional manner.
- Work collaboratively and proactively to identify process, sourcing, and contract improvement opportunities.
- Ensure compliance with sourcing policies and procedures, ethical practices, and adherence to relevant laws and regulations.
Challenges:
- Operating from a center-led function will be a wide-scale cultural, operational and process change in a distributed operating model.
- Building effective relationships, sometimes from a distance, with key internal and external influencers.
- If coming from outside the industry or company, learning the Life Safety Industry and ADT's business and how it operates (e.g. distributed delivery model) will require a formidable learning curve.
Education/Certification:
- Bachelor degree in business, materials/logistics management, or a technical field
Experience:
- Experience with ERP applications such as Oracle a significant plus
- Minimum 3-5 years experience with sourcing, materials management or relevant technical/analytical discipline
- Ideally can demonstrate a successful track record in similar operating environments (center-led, matrixed, complex).
- Experience with Ariba e-sourcing purchasing tools a plus
Skills:
- Drive for Results: Uses operational excellence tools to get results, can be counted on to achieve/exceed goals
- Composure: Isn't knocked off balance by the unexpected, cool under pressure
- Team Work and Relationship Building: Can quickly find common ground and solve problems for the good of all; can represent his/her own interests and yet be fair to other groups; can solve problems with others with a minimum of noise; is seen as a team player and is cooperative; provides candid, complete, and actionable feedback to others; shares wins and successes; easily gains trust and support of others; encourages engagement of others.
- Negotiation: Can negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups. Gain trust quickly. Can be direct and forceful as well as diplomatic.
- Priority Setting: Spends time on what's important, eliminates roadblocks, creates focus
- Organizational Agility: Knows how to get things done through formal channels and informal networks
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations on internal and external customers, gains trust and respect.
- Effective communications skills, including the ability to persuasively present information both in writing and verbally
- Must have good MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Word) skills
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)