Senior Source to Contract Specialist

Overview

Senior Source to Contract Specialist in TJX's Global Sourcing and Procurement Center of Excellence, supporting Category Management with operational and tactical sourcing events.

What you'll do

• Coordinate and oversee administrative work assigned to Source to Contract Specialist Administrators, including loading contracts, running reports, on-boarding RFQ-only vendors into sourcing and/or contracting applications, tail spend management support, and other administrative tasks.
• Uphold best practices and behaviours through collaboration, communication, training, and attendance of operational calls.
• Lead delivery of tender events, including creation, execution, training of bidders, monitoring, and evaluation/analysis of sourcing events for standard events.
• Lead tactical source initiatives and oversee successful delivery of tactical sourcing events (3 bids and a buy).
• Lead RFP events and oversee successful delivery of RFPs for Category Management and Business Partners.
• Review and recommend requirement questions to Category Management.
• Complete the final step of event closing and confirm completion of the audit checklist.
• Maintain the contract repository and support business partner access.
• Provide analysis on supplier financial viability based on financial statements and ratios, and review and evaluate overall supplier business strengths and weaknesses in meeting TJX's supply needs.
• Perform basic analysis and scoring of supplier responses.

What you'll need

• Minimum 3 years of strategic sourcing, procurement, or related experience.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external contacts.
• Experience with competitive bid management platforms and e-sourcing/procurement optimization.
• Experience managing multiple, cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers in project execution.
• Strong and proven negotiation skills.
• Substantial change management experience.
• Effective conflict resolution.
• Strong time management and project planning.
• Strong presentation skills, with experience presenting.
• Strong Microsoft 365 Suite proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree or post-secondary education in Supply Chain Management, Business, or equivalent accreditation.
• GEP, Coupa, or similar e-sourcing/procurement optimization/P2P experience.

Details

• Location: Salarpuria Sattva Knowledge City, Inorbit Road, Hyderabad, India (APAC Home Office).
• Reports to Source to Contract Supervisors; works with supervisors in Canada, Europe, and the USA.