Senior Sourcing Lead - Banking Operations

<p><strong>Description</strong></p>

Citizens has recently transformed the sourcing experience to the business. In the role as a Banking Operations Senior Sourcing Lead, you will be armed with key spend data, forward looking market intelligence and a fully integrated source to pay process, enabling you to be a strong strategic partner with business line executives. This will help you drive shorter cycle times, increased market intelligence, higher level strategic discussions and increased savings opportunities. 

The Senior Sourcing Lead will report to the Senior Sourcing Team Manager in Strategic Sourcing within Procurement. The Lead will drive cost savings initiatives for the assigned commodity and consider the total cost of ownership across the Bank. 

The successful candidate will partner with business owners to identify market and economic trend opportunities and execute against them to continually improve the value derived from third party relationships. The primary focus is to align with the business lines in a way that generates a positive impact to them achieving their business goals, while optimizing value to the overall organization.

The Banking Operations Senior Sourcing Lead serves as a strategic sourcing partner to Banking and Operations leadership including oversight of customer servicing, payments and money movement. The role moves beyond cost control to value delivery, aligning suppliers to experience, performance, regulatory, and digital transformation priorities.

Primary responsibilities include

• Develop negotiation strategies to achieve cost savings and improve quality and service levels by identifying opportunities and sourcing strategies for strategic/complex negotiations.
• Oversee all spend activity for assigned commodity and determine proper action plan for all purchases that meet Procurement involve threshold.
• Lead cross-functional teams to execute sourcing initiatives including the competitive bidding process and contract negotiations.
• Ability to negotiate, including contract red lining for all types of corporate transactions using an Agile contracting framework.
• Provide Category Procurement subject matter expertise for the associated business/function.
• Effectively work with functional and business groups as a trusted advisor to determine desired product/service specifications and projected demand when making recommended action plans.
• Maintain close relations with the industry supply base and industry experts with the objective to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Proactively identify improvement opportunities for assigned category areas and recommend key actions.
• Utilize analytical thinking and tools to identify new benefits generation; prioritize projects to ensure demonstrated impact to the business.

 

Qualifications, Education, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials

• Required Qualifications

   

  • Deep understanding of financial modeling and strategy development
  • Prior Experience in Strategic Sourcing and or/ Contracting 
• Preferred Qualifications
  • SAP/Ariba experience
  • Team management/mentorship

Hours & Work Schedule

• Hours per Week: 40
• Work Schedule: M-F 8-5 (4 days a week in office, 1 day remote)

 

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Pay Transparency

The salary range for this position is $123,000 - $161,000 per year, plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. Actual pay is based on various factors including but not limited to, the budget, work location and relevant skills and experience. 

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens’ paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of every local and state jurisdiction in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits .

 

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.