Sourcing Lead - Knowledge Services

Welcome to GEP Who We Are GEP, with over 30 offices internationally, is the fastest growing procurement and supply chain solutions firm – consulting, software and managed services. GEP has succeeded by being smart and creative; solving complex problems and finding opportunities for the world’s largest organizations. How You Grow at GEP We recognize people who make a genuine difference, work hard and drive achievements. Results are noticed and rewarded. It’s how you will grow a career at GEP, and in a much shorter time frame than at other firms. Celebrating Everyone GEP succeeds through the ideas and creativity of our team members so we embrace people of all experiences, nationalities, abilities, cultures, races, gender identities, sexual orientations and ages. What makes you unique and different is celebrated and will help GEP stand out even more. And we are a women-founded and -owned company so our foundation is making GEP a great place to work for women, a place where women can learn, advance and give back. Are You One of Us • Supporting category managers with category strategy plans, sourcing execution, supporting category planning and strategic sourcing tasks • Leveraging the GEP network of Category Experts and tools, to deliver insights to any project / client. • Establishing negotiation strategies, identifying and developing negotiation levers, validating them with stakeholders and leading negotiations to ensure savings, timely supply and other benefits for purchases, business analytics, savings reporting and tracking, stakeholder interaction as part of the S2C program • Discussing with vendors and evaluating their products and capabilities as suppliers; • Managing all supplier selection and procurement activities (e.g. RFI, RFP, RFQ, Scorecard and Bid Analysis) • Providing support with respect to Supplier Management/ Procurement processes and policies. • Demonstrating continuous effort to improve operations, manage SOP’s, decrease turnaround times and streamline work processes. • Identifying and communicating with a diverse range of stakeholders, such as suppliers, project sponsors, end-users and other supporting functions such as HR, Legal and Finance. • Recruitment & mentorship of junior colleagues. • Participation in firm building activities. • If managing direct materials – Execution of operational activities including Long term capacity planning, escalations in operational service & quality issues, material resilience management, price forecasting and business partnering. • Accurate master data management to the required quality standards.