Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of our academic community.

Leads a sourcing and contracting team for goods and services utilized across the University and Healthcare, as needed.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Has responsibility for all aspects of people and team leadership; hiring, setting expectations, coaching, counseling, developing, evaluating and providing feedback.
• Trains, coaches and develops employees to maintain a highly motivated, engaged and professional staff of procurement experts.
• Proactively identifies areas of opportunity for new business opportunities, process improvement, and cost efficiencies.
• Provides insight on how to best develop and leverage supplier capabilities for the University.
• Leads a spend category focused team that works with key stakeholders to develop sourcing strategies that enable value creation, cost reduction, risk management, and other priorities, as needed.
• Aligns with the business owners to understand their supplier related challenges and objectives, develops sourcing strategies to achieve those objectives and leads the sourcing and contracting process.
• Works closely with all stakeholders to select, negotiate, contract and manage suppliers.
• Actively coordinates and leads the negotiation and contracting process to enable the achievement of established goals and the utilization of preferred contract terms.
• Manages and maintains a repository of information including documents used in the sourcing process and all contracts executed with suppliers.
• Leads and supports, as necessary, all procure to pay process improvements, system enhancements and University procure to pay policy updates.
• Increases the level of support and customer service provided across the University and to all organizations utilizing suppliers.
• Works with the Office of the General Counsel to establish contract templates that reflect the preferred language of the University and the necessary regulatory requirements.
• Develops and implements sourcing and contracting related training programs for the organization.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10 years of related sourcing and contracting experience with relevant spend categories (IT, medical, professional services, building and grounds, etc.).
• Contracting experience should include the development of custom language and contract templates.
• Experience with sourcing and procurement tools including eSourcing, spend analytics, procure-to-pay system, and contract management.
• Outstanding team building and leadership skills along with the ability to work across departments to achieve a common objective.
• Proven experience in sourcing, negotiations, contracting and supplier collaboration.
• Strong communication and change management skills.
• Solid analytical and computer skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• JD, JM or significant experience drafting supplier contracts.

NOTE: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to occasionally commute to Emory University on a flexible schedule based upon business needs. Schedule is based on agreed upon guidelines of department. Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with sufficient notice to employee

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