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The Strategic Sourcing Specialist role is responsible to execute strategic sourcing initiatives in a specific category; work with business stakeholders to ensure data accuracy and specification of materials and service being sourced/ procured; provide customer relationship support and track vendor performance; and assess elements of the supply base and help define, execute, and support strategic sourcing and procurement decisions.
What You'll be Doing:
- Assist with the collection, analysis, benchmarking and reporting of category and spend data to build and maintain category spend and pricing databases.
- Develop and issue RFX’s.
- Lead basic and moderately complex sourcing events.
- Review contracts, pricing, purchase orders, and service levels.
- Perform value analysis and total cost of ownership analytical activities.
- Monitor and report savings to Strategic Sourcing Lead.
- Interview stakeholders to develop service specification levels.
- Participate in cross-functional teams that will assess the opportunities and supply markets in order to develop, implement and institutionalize various sourcing strategies.
- Maintain and help build supplier relationships.
- Manage strategic category management processes, procedures, supplier and category segmentation, metrics/KPI development and application, scorecard format, contract management, etc.
- Gathers and reviews data to support category management / strategic sourcing activities (i.e. specifications, statements of work, performance terms, and/or acceptance criteria)
- Manage the sourcing process from analyzing the vendors proposals, communicating between stakeholders and determining a negotiation strategy.
- Develop and execute pricing and contract negotiation strategies; understanding financial impact to all negotiations and assisting Strategic Sourcing Lead with negotiations and contract pricing and terms.
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or require.
What You'll Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in Business or Supply Chain required, or equivalent job experience.
- 1-3 years of experience in sourcing, contract negotiation, competitive price analysis, and purchasing.
- 3+ years of experience in sourcing, contract negotiation, competitive price analysis.
- Retail or Consumer facing industry preferred.
- Superior quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
- Strong experience with use of analytical methods and tools.
- Ability to function in ambiguous and/or time-sensitive situations.
- Strong listening and interpersonal skills.
- Self-directed, requiring limited guidance and / or structure.
- Good communication and team skills.
- Advance knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Experience with SAP/Ariba a plus.
- Aptitude for conducting wide-ranging research.
- Financial acumen preferred.
- Leadership and team building abilities.
- Active curiosity—enjoy gathering and digging deeply into data to identify opportunities and risks.
- Ability to develop communications and presenting to cross functional partners.
- Strong organizational, planning, and time management skill with ability to prioritize multiple/competing projects and assignments.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, or equivalent job experience
- 1-3 years of experience in sourcing, contract negotiation, competitive price analysis, and purchasing
- 3+ years of experience in sourcing, contract negotiation, and competitive price analysis
- Superior quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
- Strong experience using analytical methods and tools
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Ability to function in ambiguous and time-sensitive situations
- Strong listening, interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills
- Self-directed with limited guidance or structure
- Ability to conduct wide-ranging research and analyze data
- Strong organizational, planning, and time-management skills
- Retail or consumer-facing industry experience
- Experience with SAP or Ariba
- Financial acumen
- Leadership and team-building abilities
- Ability to communicate and present to cross-functional partners
Meijer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Meijer and has not been reviewed or approved by Meijer.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
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What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
