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Strategic Sourcing Specialist

3 months ago


Santa Clarita, United States Holland America Line Inc Full time

Carnival, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, and Seabourn offer world-renown vacations at sea to travelers around the globe. This is an opportunity to join a dynamic, unified organization as part of their highly experienced team in our corporate office.

We’re looking for an amazing Strategic Sourcing Specialist to fill this role which can be based in our Santa Clarita, Seattle, Miami, or Fort Lauderdale office. This is a hybrid, in-office role. You’ll work in person (in office) Tuesday to Thursday each week. You’ll be focused on strategic spend categories targeting cost savings/avoidance, driving increased supplier performance (OTIF), growing supplier relationships, and negotiating long-term supplier agreements. The Strategic Sourcing Specialist works closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure contracts are in place on-time within the global markets where Carnival, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, and Seabourn vessels cruise.

Here’s a summary of what we are looking for in a Strategic Sourcing Specialist. Is this you?

**Responsibilities**
- Development of an effective long-term strategic sourcing plan for highly complex categories and projects that create long term value while meeting brand objectives, including value creation, supply continuity, risk mitigation, and innovation. Effective collaboration on strategic sourcing categories and projects within the organization and stakeholders; Developing relationships to become a trusted sourcing partner. Ensuring cross-functional engagement and support of category projects and initiatives.
- Maintain focus on project timelines and deliverables to ensure business goals and objectives are met. Strong partnership with Finance team to accurately forecast impacts of category strategy, including scenario modeling.
- Researching best practices and conducting baseline due diligence to best understand opportunities for savings, reducing TCO, improve efficiencies, quality improvement and service of the sourcing teams. Lead supplier qualification, segmentation and certification programs
- Effective supplier relationship management; leveraging data, metrics, and internal feedback. Providing and reviewing score cards to improve supplier results. Developing early supplier involvement to ensure suppliers are utilized to their full capabilities and proactively providing input to provide low cost, efficient, and quality goods and services. Effectively influencing change and buy-in across the stakeholder group and leadership.
- Implement gold-standard contracts across strategic supplier base. Negotiate strategic supplier contracts, develop innovative pricing models and agreements to deliver value to brands.
- Document activities to share results, best practices and develop a playbook within the sourcing teams.

**Requirements**:

- 3-7 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain, and/or category management
- BS/BA in relevant field (or equivalent years’ experience) with education in supply chain, business administration, economics, or related field
- Intermediate knowledge of specific categories and/or ability to develop knowledge of new categories
- Intermediate negotiation skills and business judgement
- Intermediate technical sourcing process knowledge
- Courage to hold suppliers accountable during challenging events and/or periods of change
- Ability to conduct analysis required during a sourcing initiative
- Ability to build strong relationships with suppliers
- Ability to perform analysis and interpret results into actional steps
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives and priorities at once
- Strong attention to detail and process orientation
- Excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills
- Strong people management skills, ability to effectively lead in a cross-functional team environment and manage multiple priorities. Identify and resolve problems efficiently and effectively
- Well-developed influencing skills and stakeholder management. Experience with supplier relationship management.
- Food, beverage, hotel category sourcing experience preferred
- Cruise, hospitality, foodservice industry experience preferred
- MBA/CPSM/CPM/APICS preferred
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Princess is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time (e.g., H-1B status).

**What You Can Expect**
- Cruise and Travel Privileges for You and Your Family
- Health Benefits
- 401(k)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Training & Professional Development
- Tuition & Professional Certification Reimbursement
- Rewards & Incentives

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