Senior Strategic Sourcing Data Manager

LogicSource Overview

LogicSource is an innovative leader in sourcing and procurement services, we help companies increase profits through better buying.  LogicSource® is owned and operated by an experienced group of global business veterans who came together under the common goal to radically change the way sourcing and procurement works.  We’ve reinvented sourcing and procurement with an execution-based, fully transparent business model that ensures clients don’t spend a dime until they see results.

Our people gain exposure to projects and clients spanning a broad set of categories across multiple industries. Opportunities for getting involved, whether working across functions or learning a new category abound.

Our business model reflects our culture – radically different and rife with opportunity to make a difference. Our professionals enjoy the intellectual stimulation, challenge and satisfaction that only a sophisticated organization, coupled with relevant and meaningful business challenges to solve, can afford.

Position Summary:

We have an immediate opening for a full-time Strategic Sourcing Data Manager. You will be a key member of our Product Operations team, reporting to the Partner, Center of Excellence. The Strategic Sourcing Data Manager will be responsible for management of all pricing and other benchmark data across the business. The role includes evaluating, validating, and normalizing pricing data across various indirect spend categories to support the development of a comprehensive price benchmark database. You will work closely with other subject matter experts within the Center of Excellence to ensure unique category attributes are accurately defined to ensure proper extraction from various data sources (contracts, proposals, RFP responses, etc.).

This role offers a valuable opportunity to expand your subject matter expertise across a wide variety of indirect spend categories by gaining broad exposure to their pricing dynamics. This role is ideal for individuals with a strong understanding of indirect spend sourcing processes and the various attributes that can influence pricing models.

Responsibilities:

• Advocate across LogicSource teams, the value and need for pricing related documents to be included in the OneMarket Pricing solution.
• Collaborate with LogicSource subject matter experts to better understand unique price-related attributes per category.
• Apply category knowledge and knowledge of the OneMarket Pricing solution to review, edit, format, normalize, categorize and otherwise prepare documents for upload with a goal of maximizing the accuracy of detailed pricing data.
• Research categories to define the various market influences and appropriate indexes that influence pricing.
• Upload documents into the solution, validate accuracy and utilize solution features to correct import errors and commit data to the database.
• Maintain logs of file manipulation and review with the product team to define feature enhancements that will improve the accuracy of the ingestion features
• Continuously review the system for data quality issues and track through resolution
• Monitor and continuously curate product, client and supplier master look up tables for normalization accuracy. Work in concert with the product team to add or edit normalized data, particularly as new data is ingested into the solution.

Required Education and Experience:

• A strategic sourcing practitioner with strong communications skills and an understanding of the various factors that influence indirect spend pricing.
• Bachelors degree.
• 5+ years of experience working in a Strategic Sourcing role focused on indirect spend.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel with the ability to quickly navigate and manage large datasets, including strong command of core functions such as pivot tables, vlookup, and concatenate, with a demonstrated focus on speed and accuracy.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written to interact successfully with external clients and internal category experts.
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills.
• Ability to think creatively.
• Strong research skills.
• Attention to detail is a must.

• Ability to effectively operate independently and in a team environment                                    

Travel:

This position may require limited travel.

Other Duties:

This Position Description is not an exhaustive list of the duties and responsibilities, and the employee is expected to perform other duties as necessary and assigned. The duties and responsibilities of this position may be modified at any time to meet changing business needs.

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