La Description
The Senior Sourcing Analyst will be part of our Center of Excellence for procurement operations. Role will initially support the Sourcing Teams. Position will manage Procurement and Sourcing tools for: eRFX, Savings Tracking (including dashboard creation), and Spend Analytics. You will work directly with members of Sourcing, Information Security, Diversity, Sustainability, and other internal teams. Fantastic opportunity for exposure to multiple areas of the business as this role supports all the 3 Cox Divisions: CAI, CCI, and CEI. Must have demonstrated experience in analytics, exposure to sourcing, project management, and miscellaneous Sourcing and/or Procurement tools. Position can help identify savings opportunities, showcase areas of improvement, and help drive the overall strategy for sourcing events.
*Must reside in metro Atlanta, GA area. Role is hybrid with two days in office a week.
Primary Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and develop templates for category specific contracts, vendor management, and RFx.
- Summary of RFX results – including heavy analytics. Tell a story with data, there is a heavy focus on analytics. Bias towards creating clean, powerful, user-focused visualizations.
- Project management ensuring communications are handled in a timely manner. Manage vendor Q&A for Sourcing Events.
- Closely collaborate with members of the Sourcing Team to run eRFX, create scorecards, and develop best practices for savings tracking.
- Have a deep understanding of our internal customers’ businesses and their objectives to develop strategies that meet their current and future needs.
- Provide Project Plans via PowerPoint to communicate status of events at various levels.
- Work closely with Sourcing Leadership to provide ad-hoc reporting for Executive meetings.
- Ability to communicate and partner effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
Qualifications
Minimum
- BA/BS degree with 4 years of experience required in related field (i.e. Supply Chain Management, Business Management, Strategic Sourcing, etc.); MS degree and 2+ years of experience required, or 8 years of experience in lieu of a degree.
- Requires strong knowledge of MS Office (Microsoft Project, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access).
- RFx experience required.
- Excellent negotiating and influencing skills through written or verbal communication with specific experience in management reporting and executive presentations and skills to work effectively with teams throughout organization.
- Solid analytic capabilities required.
- Understanding and demonstrated use of E-Sourcing tools.
Preferred
- BA/BS in Supply Chain Management, Finance/Accounting, Business Management, Human Resources, Operations or a related discipline. Master’s degree a plus.
- Experience in telecommunications industry desired.
- Experience in IT Sourcing is desired.
- Top 5 consulting experience a plus.
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $79,400.00 - $119,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
About Cox Communications
Cox Communications is committed to creating meaningful moments of human connection through broadband applications and services. The largest private telecom company in America, we proudly serve six million homes and businesses across 18 states. We're dedicated to empowering others to build a better future and celebrate diverse products, people, suppliers, communities and the characteristics that makes each one unique.
About Cox
We are the Cox family of businesses. We’ve been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us. Our primary divisions – Cox Communications and Cox Automotive – are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators. We’re also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation. We’re looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow. Sound intriguing? Learn more about where we are today, where we hope you’ll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com.
Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page.
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