Strategic Sourcing Director

7 days ago

Illinois City, United States Alight Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Strategic Sourcing Director to join our team at Alight. As a key member of our procurement organization, you will be responsible for developing and implementing category strategy, including the sourcing lifecycle and commercial activities for aligned suppliers.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement category strategy, including the sourcing lifecycle and commercial activities for aligned suppliers.
  • Serve as the organizational expert in the category to meet internal requirements that drive desired business outcomes and financial results.
  • Develop strong, trusted partnerships with key business stakeholders while building and developing category strategy, driving alignment, and managing risk and issues.
  • Act as Alight's contractual point of contact with aligned suppliers, managing strategic sourcing engagement activities (RFPs, negotiations, contracting, governance etc.) and ongoing relationship.
  • Proactively define requirements to enable continuous improvement and work with procurement excellence team to ensure latest market research and analytics drive category strategy.
  • Lead in connecting the Supplier needs of all Businesses and bring those parties together to identify opportunities/synergies driving alignment on common product/service sets.
  • Acquire a deep understanding of business objectives, drivers, and desired outcomes in order to build those elements into the Sourcing process.
Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience in Supplier Category Management or Health or Wealth operational outsourcing disciplines: Health, Wealth or Payroll.
  • Experience managing client and/or third-party supplier contracts, with a detailed understanding of Terms and Conditions of the MSA, Statements of Work and Fee Schedules.
  • Deep expertise in overseeing Governance routines and processes: change orders, Service Level Agreements, performance dashboards, escalation management, root cause analysis, risk mitigation, audit compliance (SOC I ad SOC II), business continuity, data privacy and related Governance routines.
  • Strong financial acumen, including but not limited to P&L Management, budgets and forecasting, invoice validation, cost savings, ROI/cost modeling and operational fee structures (ie: PEPM/PEPY, volume-based pricing, variable charges, RUs, minimum guarantees and ARC/RRC).
  • Excellent communication and relationship management skills with the ability to build trusted partnerships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
  • Solutions oriented and has a proven track record of using facts, data and cost modelling techniques to build business cases and influence decisions.
  • Experience in negotiation techniques; proven ability to deliver favorable agreements which meet business requirements.
  • Strong knowledge of the industry and market trends.
  • Project management or program management experience.
  • Working knowledge of contracting process and tools.
  • Able to travel as required.
What We Offer

We offer a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

Salary Pay Range: $102,400 - $162,600 USD.

Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate's experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography.

Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level.

Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit.

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