Job title:Lead Strategic Sourcing

Lead Strategic Sourcing

Founded in 1906, CEMEX has grown into a global building materials company that provides high quality products and reliable service to customers and communities throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Here at CEMEX we offer our employees competitive wages, career growth, excellent benefits including health, dental & vision plans, vacation or paid time off, employee assistance program and retirement plan options, along with over a century of stability to build your next career on!

Job Summary: The Strategic Sourcing Specialist is responsible for the commercial and contractual strategy on the negotiation of goods and services for CEMEX's manufacturing operation in the United States.

Job Responsibilities:

• Negotiate contracts and agreements.
• Develop strategies for goods and services based on an understanding of market knowledge, business requirements and balance leveraging with competition
• Develops negotiating strategy with input from internal customers, acts as key commercial expert during negotiations, acts as primary contact for target suppliers.
• Negotiate legal and commercial terms to achieve optimal business results.
• Identify key contract risks and the associated mitigation strategies
• Build strong working relationships with internal customers to understand their requirements, drivers and timelines.
• Challenge operational procedures. Through the financial analysis and Total Cost of Ownership modeling process, research and/or identify ways to improve the pricing, quality, service and technology.
• Using collaborative creativity, bring new ideas to the table and challenge the current operational routines to identify opportunities to build positive impact changes within the organization
• Increase the overall value to the company. Through the use of financial analysis and TCO modeling, negotiate hard savings and/or benefits to lower the overall manufacturing cost to the organization.
• Create Key Performance Indicators to ensure supplier performance on value added benefits
• Take the lead in the implementation process. Follow the negotiations process through from "cradle to grave" including implementation to ensure that completed negotiations are fully utilized within the company and that maximum savings and benefits are realized.
• Leads the adoption and use of procurement technologies including e-sourcing tools
• Develop the negotiations plan. Work closely with Operations and Planning to develop and refine the negotiations strategy and plans of the region for the upcoming year.
• Review macroeconomic indicators to determine the prevailing market conditions and evaluate potential savings and benefits that could be available
• Manage relationships across all department lines. Professionally communicate and interact with all levels of management both inside and outside of Procurement.
• Create strategic alliances with vendors. Develop and maintain long-term supply partnerships with the vendor base to work together and find different avenues for reducing the total cost
• Adhere to all CEMEX, OSHA, and MSHA rules and regulations at all times and wear proper safety equipment while on plant grounds
• Meet or exceed company safety standards

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree required in Engineering, Business or Supply Chain Management; Master's Degree in Business Administration preferred 6 years industrial procurement experience related to supply chain strategy and national negotiations

Working Conditions: Capable of working in an open concept office environment Physical Requirements Requires walking, sitting, lifting, pushing, pulling, and climbing to a significant degree Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. Job involves sitting most of the time, but also involves walking or standing for brief periods of time While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear, in order to communicate to employees/visitors

Legal Notices: CEMEX is an EEO/AA (equal opportunity/affirmative action) institution and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or familial status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by under federal, state or local law in the programs or activities which it operates. CEMEX will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all local, state and federal laws. CEMEX is an E-Verify participating employer. Arizona Smoke-Free Act. CEMEX complies with the State of Arizona's Smoke-Free Act (Arizona Revised Statutes 36-601.01). Smoking and/or the use of tobacco or related products is prohibited in and on CEMEX property as well as any building and/or vehicle owned or leased by CEMEX.