Sourcing Specialist-

5 months ago


Montréal, Canada Société Générale Full time

**Responsibilities**:
**ABOUT THE JOB**:
The aim of Global Business Service Unit (GBSU) Canada is to deliver day-to-day services to Société Générale investment and corporate bank units and their clients to accelerate their transformation. GBSU differentiates itself from competitors with the pace of the agile transformation delivered, spreading the technology and data culture, shortening the decision-making process, and adopting a true industrial approach, leveraging on different teams either transversal or aligned to the different sub business units.

The Sourcing Generalist of the SG Americas Sourcing Department supports the overall goals of the SG global Sourcing Department in Paris of reducing and controlling SG’s cost structure and commercial and legal risks within the Americas region. The Sourcing Generalist will be responsible for sourcing mid to low level business requirements across multiple categories of spend (HR, Real Estate, IT HW/SW, Services, Consulting etc.).

**What will be your DAY-TO-DAY?**

Day to day responsibilities include but not limited to:
**Generalist**:

- Negotiate/Draft mid to low level agreements including, but not limited Master Agreement, Schedules, SOWs, Amendments, NDAs etc.
- Reduce cost, increase quality, and improve service by reducing number of suppliers and consolidating purchasing power (supplier rationalization) and/or optimization of the services or service delivery
- Develop and administer supplier RFXs and analyze proposals
- Draft contractual terms with the assistance of the Legal department to ensure optimal contractual arrangements and best practices are achieved, which may include responsibility for management of document templates
- Coordinate and participate in Global/Regional/Local contract negotiations which directly impact SG profit margins
- Completes, stores, and shares administrative documents and logístical contract signature duties related to specific commodity group
- Develop professional relationships with business owners and internal clients, managing related activities (customer management) and participating in monthly and as requested strategy meetings with internal clients
- Independently gather and analyze market/financial data from internal and external sources to effectively manage assigned commodity area (Benchmarking)
- Proactively seeks new/alternate sources of supply while establishing alliances and managing supplier relations

**Other responsibilities may include**:

- Liaison with other groups while negotiating a contract (Legal, Third-Party Risk, Compliance etc.)
- Participate in group projects (i.e., contribute to the Souring Transformation, process improvement etc.)

**Profile required**:
**Skills and Qualifications**:
**COMPETENCIES**

**Required**:

- Must have strong general experience and knowledge of the sourcing process
- Proficiency in contract terms and condition negotiations and drafting
- Excellent analytical and strategic skills
- Influential with regards to Internal Stakeholders and External Suppliers
- Must be a self-starter and be able to operate independently in an aggressive environment
- Excel at analyzing the commodity of spend for savings opportunities and/or service improvement, develop actionable plans, solicit necessary stakeholder support, execute the plan through sourcing/negotiation
- Must have the ability to work well within a team, with global involvement

**TECHNICAL SKILLS**

**Required**:

- Basic Office Applications, MS Excel, MS Word, etc.

**PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE**

**Required**:

- Minimum of (5) years’ sourcing experience with relevant category knowledge
- Strong overall sourcing acumen

**EDUCATION**

**Required**:

- Experience equivalent to a BS degree

**Desired**:

- B.S. in Business or other related field of Study

**Languages**:French, English

**_ Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States_**_._

**Why join us**:
**OUR BENEFITS**:
**WHAT WE DO DIFFERENTLY AT SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE**

Competitive compensation & benefits offering, including but not limited to:

- Minimum of 20 Vacation days + 4 personal days
- Supportive Maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave policy
- Health spending ($2,000/year) and personal spending ($1,000/year) accounts with 75+ eligible reimbursement categories (health, training, electronics etc.)
- Fully sponsored virtual healthcare assistance and Employee Assistance Program to you and your immediate family
- Various Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to engage with such as Pride and Allies, American Women Network, Black Leadership Network, One planet, etc.
- A culture of continuous development by encouraging our employees various training programs (online training and coaching platform such as Coursera, GoFluent, Pluralsight, First Finance, and others)

**Business insight**:
**OUR CULTURE**:
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