Associate Director - Commercial Services
Pay: $110 per hour
12 Month Contract
3x a Week - Foster City CA

• Develop category strategies to deliver value by achieving cost savings and improving quality and service levels by identifying opportunity areas such as standardization and supplier consolidation 

• Oversee all spend activity and purchase requests for assigned category areas and determine proper action plan for all purchases that meet the procurement involvement threshold 

• Provide category subject matter expertise to the associated business group and Procurement functions 

• Support Commercial category strategies with spend analytics, supplier benchmarking, and RFP execution support 

• Coordinate Commercial supplier communications, data gathering, and performance tracking 

• Effectively work with Procurement Business Partner and business groups as a trusted advisor to determine desired product/service specifications and projected demand when making recommended action plans 

• Consult with cross functional teams to execute strategic sourcing projects for assigned category 

• Collaborate with Procurement functions and business groups to ensure that all spend above established thresholds are managed strategically 

• Collaborate with Procurement colleagues including Supplier Inclusion and Procurement Operations to create standard and repeatable process to integrate business diversity and responsible procurement into overall value proposition 

• Drive use of sourcing and procurement best practices and standardization of processes while minimizing supply risk 

• Ensure the company has good supply market understanding and works with the business teams to provide input for creating innovative win win customer and supplier strategies 

• Proactively identify improvement opportunities for assigned category and recommend key actions to the appropriate stakeholders 

• Combine all spend information into yearly plans and long-term forecasts for costs, savings targets, and planned projects 

• Execute initiatives to classify suppliers and manage supplier relationships according to defined supplier relationship management standards.