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Strategic Sourcing Manager - Contract-March 2024
Milwaukee
Mar 28, 2026
About Strategic Sourcing Manager - Contract

  Reporting to the Director of Strategic Sourcing, the Strategic Sourcing Manager will assess, develop, and execute best practice sourcing strategies and initiatives for ManpowerGroup North American and Global Executive business owners.  Additionally, this position will be the strategic sourcing category leader and work with functional team leaders to plan, implement, and communicate supply strategy supplier management programs and drive cost savings & risk mitigation.

  Making an Impact:

  Stakeholders Management:

  · Create and implement supplier relationship programs and internal business relationship building that leads to increased productivity managed to spend on a domestic, international, and global basis This role includes building and maintaining solid relationships between Manpower home office, Experis, Solutions, and Right Management (Finance, Legal, Risk Management, IT, HR), domestic and global business leadership

  · Promotes and maintain ethical relationships with all internal stakeholders, and customers

  · Ability to read internal business partners and respond with an appropriate level of support; (i.e., when to lead and when to follow)

  Category Management:

  · Manage category contract portfolios to ensure that commercial obligations are met and the process of renewal or replacements of existing agreements are proactively managed.  

  · Demonstrate Indirect and Direct Spend expertise. 

  · Develop and manage Category Strategies and identify and deploy suitable strategies as RFP's among other methods applicable to the category that meet the business requirement.

  · Deploy price/cost analysis, and pricing strategies

  Analytics:

  · Provides rigorous analysis of spend data, market information, and industry benchmarks.

  · Draws upon strategic sourcing performance metrics to focus and channel resources towards the highest impacting initiatives while still providing advisement and consultation on lower risk and impact requests

  · Proficient at data mining, organizing, and analyzing spend data to find new opportunities for strategic sourcing initiatives.

  Contract Management:

  · Lead multiyear multimillion agreements negotiations

  · Coordinates contract execution as the liaison with legal, risk management, IT marketing, Data Security, Data Privacy, and finance to ensure favorable commercial terms, risk mitigation, and robust ongoing SLAs and KPI metrics are incorporated in the contracts.

  · Leverages the substantial stakeholders' relationships to increase the spend under strategic sourcing management

  · Solid business acumen to assess the overall benefits and risks of a contract/purchase

  Project Management:

  · Deploys high-quality project management best practices are utilized to ensure that projects and sourcing projects are well managed and communicated

  · Emphasizes follow-up, follow-thru, taking ownership of projects, taking and driving accountability.

  Negotiation:

  · Strong negotiation skills. Ability to multi-task, shift priority level, and perform in a fast-paced, results-oriented, and time-sensitive environment

  · Able to negotiate skillfully in challenging situations under conflicting internal and external interests

  · Wins concessions without damaging relationships

  Sharing Expertise:

  · Supplier Relationship Management:

  · Develops suppliers in partnership with business owners

  · Demonstrates expertise in keeping critical suppliers happy over an extended relationship, yielding the best possible prices and value add for their organization.

  · Manages supplier performance towards continuous improvement and keeps good relationships that increase good deals and quality while decreasing supply chain risk.

  · Create and implement supplier relationship programs and internal business relationship building that leads to increased productivity managed to spend on a domestic, international, and global basis.

  · Recommends and enlist support for sourcing strategies for critical products and services and lead identification and development of long term (local and global) sources

  · Evaluates suppliers based on qualitative and quantitative data gathered regarding performance, quality, competitive pricing, and SLA metrics.  Holds supplier meetings to review scorecard data and contract compliance

  · Promotes and maintain ethical relationships with external suppliers and customers

  · Supports the implementation of the ongoing Supplier Diversity Program

  Gaining Exposure:

  Communication:

  · Can communicate procurement processes and objectives to key stakeholders and the wider team to ensure success.

  · Maintain communication momentum and is methodical in identifying stakeholders groups and differentiate communication methods for each

  Continuous Improvement:

  · Identifies and implements process improvements

  Change Management:

  · Contributes to the development of a compelling vision

  · Supports and executes on the milestones to progress towards the vision

  · Establishes savings and process re-engineering goals and drive implementation

  Your Typical Day:

  The position is highly complex and often requires the establishment of work procedures and approaches.  The most challenging level - demands critical assessment, evaluation, and interpretation in the adaptation of experience, expertise, and independent judgment in crucial decision-making.  This role requires advanced technical expertise and/or best practice functional knowledge, accomplishments, and expertise.

  Required Qualifications:

  · Minimum of 8-10 years in all aspects of domestic and/or global sourcing.

  · Proficient in Microsoft Office Software, Office 365 Forms and Workflow, Excel Data Model, Power Pivot, PowerBI, SharePoint, Google , Email Software, PC File and Internet usage

  · Analytics: demonstrates expertise in utilizing Excel Data Models and Power Pivot to analyze big data sets and turn them into easy-to-understand dashboards to support decision-making.

  · SharePoint: Workflow: demonstrates experience in creating and managing workflows in

  · SharePoint to manage key work management and contracting processes efficiently.

  Nice to Have Qualifications:

  Familiarity (but not expert knowledge) with Manpower systems preferred (e.g., Field PowerBase, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft Financials, Cognos) to allow for the facilitation of business needs/considerations in projects.

  ManpowerGroup ® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis and Talent Solutions – creates substantially more value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2022 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 13th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent. For more information, visit www.manpowergroup.com .

  Our Commitment

  ManpowerGroup is proud to be an equal opportunity affirmative action workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, political ideology, ancestry, the presence of any physical, sensory, or mental disabilities, or other legally protected status.

  A strong commitment is made by each employee and is necessary to ensure equal employment opportunity for all. ManpowerGroup is an inclusive workplace that will recruit, hire, train, and promote persons of all job titles, and ensure all other personnel actions are administered without regard to non-merit-based characteristics of individuals.

  Reasonable accommodation during the interview process can be provided. Contact [email protected] for assistance.

  Job: Darwin / Atlas - Contractor

  Organization: ManpowerGroup

  Title: Strategic Sourcing Manager - Contract

  Location: WI-Milwaukee

  Requisition ID: 0031285

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