Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Manager (m/w)

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Spend Taxonomy & Classification: Lead the development of a bespoke spend taxonomy and classification model, establishing clear definitions across service categories (including staff augmentation, project-based consulting, and managed services) to enable improved cost control, vendor segmentation, and strategic sourcing initiatives

• Data Curation & Enrichment: Perform data curation and enrichment by reviewing and rationalizing the existing inventory of external contractors and consultants, identifying underlying capabilities and aligning them to defined procurement categorie

• Strategic Consolidation: Collaborate with teams and procurement to identify synergies within our supplier landscape, designing a consolidation strategy that maximizes our leverage and simplifies administrative processes

• Operational Bridge: Align with Portfolio & Operations teams to streamline the data flow between the supplier landscape and our budget and WBS frameworks for maximum efficiency

• Develop Training: Work with the organisation to help upskilling key roles with regards to supplier and vendor management

Key Responsibilities

• Landscape Mapping: Develop a comprehensive end-to-end map of all external resources to provide full transparency and clarity on roles and responsibilities across CS CoE and their stakeholder workstreams

• Service Catalog Development: Create a standardized catalog of "buying categories" that aligns with the technical needs of Computational Science

• Stakeholder Interviewing: Engage with Subject Matter Experts to translate technical roles into functional sourcing categories

• Proposal for Strategy: Develop and present a data-driven category strategy for the Computational Science (CS–CoE) portfolio, defining the future-state sourcing model and establishing recommendations for preferred supplier panels

• Rate Card Benchmarking: Analyze rate structures between individual contractors and consultancy firms to identify the most effective sourcing channels, ensuring we achieve the best value for every specialized skill set

• Supplier Risk Profiling: Partner with Global Procurement to establish a risk-assessment framework that evaluates our supplier landscape, ensuring a resilient balance between specialized point-support partners and scalable managed service providers

• Functional Training Strategy: Develop our functional training for vendor management for maximal value realization

Must Haves:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Procurement, Supply Chain, Data Science, or a related technical field *****

• Experience: 5+ years in Strategic Sourcing, Vendor Management or Consulting, specifically within high-tech environments *****

• Data Architect Mindset: Expert-level ability to curate messy datasets and build logical, modular classification frameworks *****

• Strategic Execution: A systems-thinker capable of distilling hundreds of individual contracts into key strategic pillars, transforming fragmented data into a cohesive sourcing strategy

• Technical Fluency: Familiarity with the "language" of AI/Data science to accurately categorize technical services *****

• Computational Domain Literacy: A deep understanding of the "Computational Science" market

• Adaptability: Quickly adapts to new environments and rapidly learns new concepts, tools, and domains

• English fluent is a MUST

• CVs have to be uploaded in English.