Sourcing Specialist
- Austin, TX
About the department
Cloudflare’s Sourcing Specialist is responsible for administrating our procurement policies and processes, as well as purchasing vital goods and services at optimal pricing and managing indirect commodities. We are looking for an experienced professional that will be responsible for the execution of the end-to-end procurement process and conducting supplier management activities. Role will function as the internal point of contact for key business functions such as contracts, RFPs, and projects. The key objective of this position is to understand cost drivers of spend, ensure strict adherence to the procure to pay process, leverage buying power while ensuring required service quality and supplier performance are maintained with a high degree of customer (internal business units) satisfaction. The Sourcing Specialist will play a key role in P2P process administration and report request(s) fulfillment. This position requires dedicated problem solving and customer relations. The role reports to the Procurement Manager.
The Sourcing Specialist will be responsible for supporting end-to-end procurement activities, including: internal customer support, supplier relations, spend monitoring/spend management initiatives, and cost savings reporting, RFPs, RFIs, QBRs, and RFQs, quarterly reporting of purchase commitments, contract review and negotiation, contract implementation/compliance, including tracking unconditional purchase commitments for reporting purposes.
What you'll do
In this role you will coordinate internal stakeholder meetings and supplier relations. You will provide qualitative and quantitative analysis to aid in metrics-driven negotiations and vendor selection. Additionally, you will develop and manage reporting tools and excel models, tracking and reporting key metrics while leading procurement administration efforts. Assist with the preparation and review of vendor contracts, quotes, and proposals ensuring bilateral commercial terms & conditions. You will partner with Legal and Security teams during new vendor on-boarding to ensure business requirements are met at engagement onset. Facilitate Purchase Requisition to Purchase Order creation.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 6 years’ experience in a Finance or Procurement function.
- APICS/CPIM/CPSM certification preferred.
- Experience with Marketing, Finance, and HR commodities.
- Metrics driven, with the ability to exercise judgment and operate independently.
- Ability to prioritize requests and communicate effectively in a deadline driven environment.
- Knowledge of terms and conditions and commercial contract terms.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Proficiency in Coupa software is desired.
- Ironclad or similar CLM software is desired.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
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