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Sourcing - Professional Services Consulting(m/w/x)
End-to-end category strategy development for indirect spend categories like consulting and legal services. 5+ years professional services sourcing experience required. Work across global clients with AI-driven procurement solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree preferred (Supply Chain concentration or MBA a plus)
- Minimum 5+ years (ideally 10+) Professional Services Sourcing experience
- Contract and commercial negotiations experience
- Experience in Consulting, Tax, Accounting, Audit, Legal Services, HR Services categories
- Proven sourcing and negotiation experience with major suppliers
- Ability to draft and negotiate contracts with minimal legal support
- Experience structuring contracts with global Schedules, Annexes, Attachments
- Experience identifying savings opportunities
- Experience leading negotiating strategies
- Strong relationship management skills
- Strong deal structuring skills
- Strong vendor management skills
- Strong procurement expertise
- Proven capability with multi-million-dollar sourcing projects
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Excellent negotiation skills in English
- German proficiency highly desirable
- Ability to prioritize initiatives under tight deadlines
- Professional, committed, motivated, flexible team player
- Dedicated towards delivering meaningful results
- Client/stakeholder focus within corporate environment
- Gravitas to influence senior stakeholders and executive project sponsors
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects
- Ability to deliver results under tight deadlines
- Experience working with market leading sourcing tools and systems
Tasks
- Deliver value-add sourcing services to clients
- Lead end-to-end category strategy development
- Issue competitive tenders
- Negotiate and execute compliant contracts
- Advise on supplier capabilities and best practices
- Develop and implement procurement strategies
- Provide insights into supplier strategies
- Develop innovative solutions for category initiatives
- Manage strategic sourcing and category management
- Analyze market trends and supplier capabilities
- Identify and deliver savings and value improvement
- Lead RFPs, RFIs, and competitive bidding processes
- Negotiate contracts, pricing, service levels, and performance metrics
- Partner with clients to understand needs and priorities
- Manage ongoing supplier relationships
- Ensure quality, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Resolve issues related to delivery, quality, and cost
- Analyze spend data for savings and efficiency
- Mitigate supplier risks and market volatility
- Support sourcing initiatives of varying complexity
- Evaluate bid proposals for supplier selection
- Shape deals to meet business requirements
- Draft contracts based on standard terms
- Negotiate contracts for optimal commercial terms
- Maintain market awareness of supplier landscapes
- Contribute to sourcing area plans and business development
- Build strong relationships with business partners and clients
Work Experience
- 5 - 10 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
- German – Basic
Tools & Technologies
- sourcing tools
- sourcing systems
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Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree preferred (Supply Chain concentration or MBA a plus)
- Minimum 5+ years (ideally 10+) Professional Services Sourcing experience
- Contract and commercial negotiations experience
- Experience in Consulting, Tax, Accounting, Audit, Legal Services, HR Services categories
- Proven sourcing and negotiation experience with major suppliers
- Ability to draft and negotiate contracts with minimal legal support
- Experience structuring contracts with global Schedules, Annexes, Attachments
- Experience identifying savings opportunities
- Experience leading negotiating strategies
- Strong relationship management skills
- Strong deal structuring skills
- Strong vendor management skills
- Strong procurement expertise
- Proven capability with multi-million-dollar sourcing projects
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Excellent negotiation skills in English
- German proficiency highly desirable
- Ability to prioritize initiatives under tight deadlines
- Professional, committed, motivated, flexible team player
- Dedicated towards delivering meaningful results
- Client/stakeholder focus within corporate environment
- Gravitas to influence senior stakeholders and executive project sponsors
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects
- Ability to deliver results under tight deadlines
- Experience working with market leading sourcing tools and systems
Tasks
- Deliver value-add sourcing services to clients
- Lead end-to-end category strategy development
- Issue competitive tenders
- Negotiate and execute compliant contracts
- Advise on supplier capabilities and best practices
- Develop and implement procurement strategies
- Provide insights into supplier strategies
- Develop innovative solutions for category initiatives
- Manage strategic sourcing and category management
- Analyze market trends and supplier capabilities
- Identify and deliver savings and value improvement
- Lead RFPs, RFIs, and competitive bidding processes
- Negotiate contracts, pricing, service levels, and performance metrics
- Partner with clients to understand needs and priorities
- Manage ongoing supplier relationships
- Ensure quality, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Resolve issues related to delivery, quality, and cost
- Analyze spend data for savings and efficiency
- Mitigate supplier risks and market volatility
- Support sourcing initiatives of varying complexity
- Evaluate bid proposals for supplier selection
- Shape deals to meet business requirements
- Draft contracts based on standard terms
- Negotiate contracts for optimal commercial terms
- Maintain market awareness of supplier landscapes
- Contribute to sourcing area plans and business development
- Build strong relationships with business partners and clients
Work Experience
- 5 - 10 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
- German – Basic
Tools & Technologies
- sourcing tools
- sourcing systems
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About the Company
Chain IQ Group AG
Industry
Procurement
Description
The company is a global AI-driven Procurement Service Partner providing tailored procurement solutions.
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