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Shaping the Business

+ Strategy: Develops, owns, and executes comprehensive, multi-year category sourcing strategies that drive both bottom-line and top-line growth. Incorporates data-driven insights, stakeholder needs, and business objectives to shape strategic thinking. Ensures strategies address corporate social responsibility, including supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, and sustainability. Possesses experience managing diverse categories, industries, stakeholders, and suppliers.

+ Portfolio Management: Effectively manages project portfolios and deadlines, independently solving problems and making decisions to guarantee successful execution. Provides oversight, guidance, and ensures completion of project plans, including post-mortem documentation as needed.

+ Business Case Development: Creates compelling business cases to support sourcing strategies and initiatives. Crafts detailed proposals aligned with strategic, commercial, financial, and organizational goals, securing stakeholder alignment and commitment.

Driving Value

+ Value Stewardship: Builds and executes a consistent value pipeline through stakeholder and supplier collaboration. Leverages category expertise, supplier spend insights, and market trends to identify and track cost savings. Analyzes supplier proposals using financial and non-financial criteria to recommend awards and implement strategies that deliver value, including cost savings, supplier diversity, ethical sourcing, and innovation.

+ Supplier Management & Collaboration: Cultivates strategic partnerships with suppliers, fostering trust and transparency to maximize mutual value and reduce risk. Leads key supplier business reviews, drives growth and improvement, executes corrective actions when necessary, and enhances suppliers’ understanding of business operations.

+ Supplier-Enabled Innovation: Identifies and leverages supplier capabilities to meet internal business needs, influencing stakeholders to proactively engage suppliers on innovative solutions.

Protecting Supply & Reducing Risk

+ Contracting: Demonstrates expertise in owning and leading contracting processes, including preplanning, developing term sheets, and negotiating agreements. Maintains high standards by avoiding exception-based contracting and ensuring compliance with legal and business requirements.

+ Risk Management: Protects the organization by identifying, assessing, and mitigating supplier and supply chain risks, including ethical sourcing, capacity, and financial risks. Balances risk and certainty to safeguard operations and enhance resilience.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $60.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Seattle,WA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on May 9, 2025.

About Aston Carter:

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® double diamond winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email [email protected] (%[email protected]) for other accommodation options.