Senior Manager â Strategic Sourcing TCO Waves

Found in: beBee S US - 2 weeks ago

Chicago, United States United Airlines Full time
Description

There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose – Connecting People, Uniting the World – is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And we’re growing – in the years ahead, we’ll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world?

We believe that inclusion helps us thrive and grow at United across our collaborative Finance teams consisting of Financial Planning & Analysis, Internal Audit, Treasury, Global Procurement, Controllership, Investor Relations and more. These teams provide the financial fuel that keeps our operation running from providing detailed analyses of financial planning, performance, and forecasts to managing our investments and financial strategies. Our Finance team plays an integral role in making our airline profitable and successful by meeting our financial goals.

The Global Procurement organization at United Airlines is responsible for procuring goods and services and developing/ maintaining relationships with third-party providers with the objective of reducing total cost and risk to the company while improving levels of quality, service, and technology.

The objective of this senior manager role is to lead and support the entire Global Procurement organization with a variety of strategic sourcing and special analytics projects. The position objective is to lead a team of managers who lead cross-functional teams through an established, sourcing methodology crafted to deliver Total Cost of Ownership savings across the enterprise. This role will be responsible for leading existing procurement teams and affected division partners through the Total Cost of Ownership process and will be accountable to driving incremental savings across the enterprise. In addition, this role is crafted to build the internal capabilities of the Procurement division and will be instrumental in transforming current business model for sourcing which is an important element of the enterprise cost reduction efforts. This role will have direct managerial responsibility of managers in Chicago and analysts in United’s offshore India office.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead cross functional teams responsible for handling and implementing TCO methodology across direct and indirect enterprise category spends
  • Implement strategic sourcing efforts such as RFI/RFP/RFQ's or other selected strategies; lead the development of all related materials (bid documents, pricing matrix, project plan, partner interviews, etc.)
  • Benchmark current internal processes & external markets to find opportunities and develop strategies to gain identified gaps
  • Act as a consultant and lead process-improvement initiatives for the Global Procurement department; Process map current-state processes (such as RFx, catalog & contract management, etc.), and develop standardized future-state processes
  • Optimally manage relationships with all internal and external partners

United values diverse experiences, perspectives, and we encourage everyone who meets the minimum qualifications to apply. While having the “desired” qualifications make for a stronger candidate, we encourage applicants who may not feel they check ALL of those boxes We are always looking for individuals who will bring something new to the table.

Qualifications What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Management consulting, Finance, Analytics, Supply chain or another business-related field
  • 7+ years of consulting, sourcing, finance, or data analytics experience
  • Highly analytical with excellent problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication and people skills
  • Works well in high-paced cross-functional environment
  • Good business insight and demonstrated capability of leading sophisticated projects
  • Sophisticated PowerPoint and Excel skills
  • Reliable, punctual attendance is a crucial function of the position
  • Authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship

Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
  • MBA or Master’s in Data Analytics
  • Management consulting experience

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.

 


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