Senior Sourcing Project Manager

Senior Sourcing Project Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• Conducts business with one or two other countries
• Follows policies and procedures governing business activities with another country
• Obtains information regarding operational issues of other countries when making business decisions
• Assesses key legal, regulatory, and financial issues specific to a particular country
• Recognizes behaviors that promote or stunt effective relationships in that country; acts accordingly
• Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities
• Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development
• Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan
• Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans
• Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives
• Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan
• Analyzes and fully documents client requirements
• Applies experience to developing and executing multiple consulting assignments
• Works with business to identify alternative solutions and associated pro’s and con’s
• When leading project, prepares proposals and presentations
• Reviews others’ writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand
• Understands the group’s go-to-market strategy
• Raises awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships
• Explains elements of the strategy to others and encourages questions
• Monitors marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities; reports findings
• Makes sound recommendations when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives
• Reinforces and reiterates linkages between the team’s work and the vision
• Makes decisions grounded in relevant tenets of the vision
• Eliminates from consideration those scenarios that are inconsistent with the vision
• Surfaces constructive dissent
• Evaluates stakeholder profiles, roles, claims and interests in an organization and how these may conflict
• Consults stakeholders in identifying opportunities for strategic change while evaluating the strategic choices available to an organization
• Manages conflicting stakeholder priorities, when implementing strategic-change initiatives
• Oversees business operations and resource allocation with strategic objectives and the drivers of shareholder and stakeholder value
• Reviews professional values and ethical judgment in all aspects of work
• Oversees key engagement reviews to assure stakeholder satisfaction
• Effectively manages projects ensuring objectives and deadlines are met by team members
• Works with the business to determine handover process to ensure appropriate transfer completed
• Selects and uses appropriate diagnostic tools, methods and techniques and actively seeks out new and appropriate tools
• Identifies, quantifies and manages issues impacting on project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Leads analyses and solution development for key S&P engagements. Performs more complex activities.
• Works closely with business units to define business problem and develops approach to resolve.
• Oversees performance of S&P engagement data collection, research and reporting activities and staff.
• Provides recommended S&P solutions. Works with senior managers to develop and deliver stakeholder presentations.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.