Procurement Senior Manager

Responsibilities

Peraton's Procurement Organization is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager. The Manager will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• As a key member of our Procurement team, you will be responsible for leading and managing varying engagements within our Indirect spend in areas such as: IT Services, Software, Telecom, and Hardware.

• This role will engage with all relevant stakeholders and build a strong advisory partnership with the Functional Leaders and provide direct management of a team of four.

• This role reports directly to the Procurement Operations Senior Director

• Guides sourcing staff to create sourcing solutions in support of overall tech strategy.

• Helps procurement team and stakeholders create thoughtful category and supplier strategies.

• Develop cost savings and strategic sourcing projects while ensuring business continuity and high level of supplier performance.

• Manage spend, supplier, and market data from resources to effectively analyze both savings opportunity and value chain impacts.

• Lead all levels of supplier market RFI / RFP activities, including execution, readouts and business case implications.

• Meet with potential participants, both incumbents and non-incumbents, answer RFP related questions from vendors, analyze RFP results and support final vendor(s) awards.

• Drive annual productivity improvements in each category of spend by developing and ensuring implementation of ideas to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) for spend categories.

• Support development of new policies and procedures to drive savings and lead organizational and operational change management within managed categories of spend.

• Support as well as lead sourcing events, including vendor sourcing, vendor and contract negotiations.

• Bring sourcing efficiency to all activity; define specific roadmaps containing prioritization of sourcing categories as well as expanding e-procurement catalogs.

• Lead research and analytics efforts to both validate savings projections and enable more precise supplier negotiations.

• Review major contracts for key areas of spend and act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) resource for planning and leading complex negotiations or re-supply modeling.

• Develop and communicate functional supply chain or sourcing strategy to a diverse group of managers and senior level professionals.

• Create alignment with group and articulate broader procurement transformation.

• Source suppliers and build a best-in-class supply chain; cultivate and manage relationships with best-in-class suppliers.

• Fully utilize all strategic levers within sourcing process and find new paths to value.

• Utilize supplier management and continuous improvement methodologies with key suppliers.

• Work cross functionally to deliver sourcing and procurement cost savings, risk mitigation projects, and supplier enabled innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent), and at least 12 years of experience working in procurement, supply chain, and material management.

• At least 5 years in management

• Proven skills in interpretation of various contract types and master level agreements (IDIQ, BOA, MSA)

• Organized, detail-oriented, and refined time management skills.

• Critical thinker who questions status quo and drives compliance through progressive methods.

• Strong technical writing and communication skills

• Desire and motivation to stay on top of emerging trends in industry and government, developing firm yet agile response to compliance requirements.

• Experience in process improvement, training, and compliance.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.