Sourcing Specialist

Key Job Focus Areas

Internal customer support:

• Work with Stakeholders to establish clear business needs, apply forward thinking skills to establish flexible long-term category strategies with value options & clear supplier performance criteria
• Partner effectively with stakeholders to become a trusted business partner
• Provide strategic direction, communicate goals, practices, and processes of the Global Strategic Sourcing organization with respective business partners
• Participate at the QBR meeting with the business stakeholders and vendors
  

Vendor management:

• Negotiation and management of commercial contracts for purchases of goods and/or services
• Participate at the negotiation meetings
• Identifying organizational needs and negotiating with suppliers for services and products to meet those needs
• Research of potential vendors based on quality, technology trend, market trend, reliability, market image and statement criteria
• Strengthen the existing relationships and negotiate with the provider, key dealers, internal customer
  

Sourcing activities

• Lead the effort to socialize and operationalize a comprehensive process for sourcing, procurement, pricing and contract negotiations for PTC US and, if required, globally.
• Identify savings opportunities & service enhancements and initiate process improvements.
• Manage supplier negotiations to reduce costs, minimize use of liquid capital and increase supplier accountability.
• Drives the decision-making process & action planning for each activity driving efficiencies and cost reduction / savings opportunities.
• Ensures relevant stakeholders are informed of decisions, action plan and timing.
• Participates in annual fiscal planning.
• Establishes and executes strategic supplier roadmap relationships.
• Maintains awareness of industry leading practices, implements changes as needed to increase capability maturity at PTC.
  

Process Improvement

• Being able to read and support process documentation creation. Identify process/system gaps and support improvement processes.
  

Personal Development

• Set goals and expectations; assess personal skills and qualities. Follow up goals and objectives by established actions for personal growth and development.