The Facebook Infrastructure Sourcing team is seeking a Sourcing Manager to drive services sourcing and procurement for Facebook’s data centers and points of presence globally. This role spans a variety of third-party support for critical facilities services, such as data eradication, server technician support, logistics and more. The candidate would be responsible for the management of a wide array of suppliers, from spend analytics to sourcing strategy, RFx, contract negotiations, performance management and supply base rationalization.
Responsibilities
Supplier survey, audit and qualification: Lead and coordinate all efforts to survey, audit, assess and qualify new suppliers.
Technology roadmap: Partner with stakeholders to fully understand business roadmaps and develop a supplier strategy.
RFx services: Own and lead the supplier interface for all RFI, RFP and RFQ services. Partner with appropriate internal stakeholders. Present RFx results to evaluation team and drive the closure of a sourcing and purchase decision.
Competitive benchmarking: Identify key benchmark suppliers in RFx efforts. Partner to identify evaluation criteria and provide relevant data back to internal Facebook team.
Cost Modeling:Partner with internal service and material requestors to ensure best-in-class pricing is secured. Drive continual improvement of cost productivity.
Risk management: Identify areas of risk and drive mitigation with subject matter experts within the organization.
Contract strategy and execution: Lead the business negotiation process with internal partners and suppliers. Own contract closure. Develop negotiation approach, fallback positions, acceptable terms and conditions through to closure.
SLA performance: Continuously measure, manage and improve supplier actual performance against negotiated SLA.
Preferred supplier management: Identify, qualify and formalize which suppliers should be on a preferred supplier list. Partner with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment. Guide business to PSL.
On-time delivery: Measure, report and action to improve service and delivery performance.
Ongoing cost productivity: Measure, report and action cost productivity as a function of market pricing.
Scorecard management: Lead measuring supplier performance, root causing issues, and driving improved performance. Own all aspects of supplier performance (cost, quality and delivery).
Day-to-day operational management: Assist the operations team in assuring high performance of all service delivery, at high quality and solid value.
Project leadership: Identify and lead projects to establish policies, drive process efficiency and automate workflows.
Requirements
BA/BS or equivalent with 10+ years of Sourcing Management or Supply Chain Management experience in related products and services
5+ years of Sourcing Management or Supply Chain Management experience in related products and services.
3+ years’ experience in managing vendor performance against contracts and driving supplier quality improvements.
Prior experience managing service vendors in an critical operational environment is a strong plus.
Prior leadership or management experience is preferred but not required.
Strong knowledge of purchasing, negotiating and end-to-end supplier management.
Must be analytical and results focused.
Business knowledge of facility operations, infrastructure as a service, and/or data centers is strongly preferred.
Willing to travel up to 15% as needed.
Project management experience strongly preferred.
Experience with international procurement preferred.
Prior experience in networking, cloud industry or related field is a definite plus.
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