Sourcing Specialist

2 days ago

Seattle, Washington, United States Flying Food Group Full time

Job Title: Sourcing Specialist

Flying Food Group, LLC is seeking a highly motivated Sourcing Specialist to join our team in Seattle. As a key member of our procurement team, you will be responsible for sourcing goods, materials, and services at competitive prices and advising upper-level staff members on which suppliers to contract with.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Sourcing suppliers and maintaining long-lasting relationships with them as well as existing suppliers.
  • Implementing inventory optimization strategies within the company.
  • Obtaining quotes from different suppliers.
  • Collecting and analyzing commodity buying trends to make insightful business decisions.
  • Negotiating price, quantity, and delivery schedules with suppliers.
  • Working with legal counsel to ensure that all contracts relating to product procurement contain all details of the negotiation.
  • Assessing quotes and compiling a detailed assessment of cost breakdowns.
  • Generating quote comparisons and contributing to internal supplier selection based on the quotes.
  • Providing solutions to improve company spending and outsourcing.
  • Managing the company's supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending.
  • Generating and implementing efficient sourcing and category management strategies.
  • Analyzing and calculating costs of procurement and suggesting methods to decrease expenditure.
  • Inventing negotiation strategies and securing profitable deals.
  • Optimizing sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency.
  • Cooperating with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes.
  • Researching and anticipating shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers.
  • Performing cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
  • Estimating risks and applying risk-minimizing techniques.
  • Discovering and partnering with trustworthy vendors and suppliers.
  • Determining quantity and timing of deliveries.

Requirements:

  • BS degree in supply chain management, logistics, or business administration
  • Proven work experience as a Sourcing Specialist or Procurement Specialist
  • Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgment
  • Strong project management and leadership skills
  • Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.
  • Comfortable with figures and collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data.
  • Solid judgment with an ability to make good decisions.
  • Contracting and procurement negotiation.
  • Risk management.
  • Strategic sourcing software experience.
  • Business ethics and transparency.
  • Forecasting and planning.
  • Proficient with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint)

Work Environment:

This job operates in an office environment in Seattle while working closely with Corporate in Chicago. This position will routinely use standard office equipment.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or listen. The employee frequently is required to sit for long periods; and reach with hands and arms.

Benefits:

Flying Food Group, LLC offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity plans, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance program, commuter benefit, retirement program 401(k), tuition reimbursement, and pet insurance.

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