Strategic Sourcing Manager

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.

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Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!

We are on a journey to improve the processes for procurement across the entire organization with innovation, speed, and collaboration. Our new Strategic Sourcing Manager will manage Procurement sourcing and contracting across a variety of categories, and have accountability to delivery against department and functional goals. You will need a strong sense of urgency and the ability to succinctly frame issues and alternatives to drive decisions forward. This position requires experience with strategic sourcing methodologies related to Technology, Real Estate, and Financial Services categories, working with the business to perform sourcing activities, leading contract negotiations, and award to supplier.

This globally diverse team partners with legal and business stakeholders to identify sourcing strategies and execute favorable contracts for Anaplan. Additional experience desired in process transformation, procurement tools, and other business operations.

This role will be hybrid, based out of our Minneapolis area, requiring two days/week in office.

Your Impact

• Drive complex sourcing strategies, scope requirements, business partnerships, and navigate complexity within a growing global matrixed organization.
• Lead or facilitate the supplier selection, RFP, and negotiation process to deliver agreements that include excellent long-term pricing models, measurable service level/performance criteria, effective remedies for non-performance, mechanisms for monitoring performance/remedies, etc.
• Proven ability to drive value creation including cost reduction, avoidance, and TCO.
• Act as an advisor to BU stakeholders with regard to market insights, supplier selection, and favorable legal and commercial terms.
• Maintain strong external focus by leveraging industry peers, organizations, associations and by continuing to build strong relationships outside of Anaplan.
• Communicate effectively and frequently, listen carefully, and actively seek and value the perspectives of others.
• Propose and drive opportunities for optimal value through analysis of current spend and external category analysis and benchmarking.
• Idea maker and change agent for process improvement implementation.
• Explore and evaluate sourcing options from the business’ perspective to find suppliers and solutions that best meet its needs.
• Bring business and sourcing perspectives together, helping the business to see the potential and impact of sourcing recommendations.
• Manage preferred supplier relationships, monitor performance and analyze category spend, support building and maintenance of category plans in connection with business leaders to define and strategically leverage spending with a proactive focus on major spend initiatives.
• Be a champion for change that can act decisively to drive decisions, while demonstrating agility to support the evolution of business needs.
• Feel bold and empowered to provide input into ongoing process improvements and tool design.
  
  

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience in purchasing/sourcing
• Experience in Technology, Finance or other corporate function negotiation, SOW development, and execution
• Expertise in converting business requirements into scoped project requirements capable of becoming statements of work.
• Ability to work efficiently in a dynamic environment
• Excellent communication, analytical, leadership, and negotiating skills
• Proficiency in Contract Lifecycle Management tools, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Project Management Tools required
  
  

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