Sourcing Specialist Associate-Travel

About the Role

Sourcing Specialist Associate-Travel at Qualcomm.

Key Responsibilities

• Aligns with internal stakeholders to identify their needs and requirements.
• Identifies potential service and product suppliers who can deliver best value to Qualcomm and satisfy project goals and objectives.
• Manages the supplier sourcing process for both products and services.
• Engages, analyzes, and evaluates supplier responses (e.g., RFP) according to category data, market data, should-cost models, and other analytics for accuracy, competitiveness, and completeness.
• Conducts negotiations with suppliers to ensure lowest total cost of ownership while achieving mutual goals, benefits, and objectives.
• Manages supplier contracts including reviewing and executing contracts, and ongoing relationship management activities.
• Identifies internal stakeholder needs and requirements for well-defined projects of limited scope.
• Assists in identifying potential service and product suppliers who can deliver value to project objectives based on an understanding of stakeholder needs and category knowledge.
• Cultivates an awareness of market and supplier trends (e.g., cost drivers, technology), sharing findings with team to support cost modeling and negotiations.
• Supports go-to-market procurement strategies based upon the needs of the business unit and guidance from senior specialists and stakeholders.
• Supports senior staff in developing procurement supplier selection criteria specifications to obtain products or services that are aligned with project goals and objectives with guidance.
• Assists with analyzing and evaluating sourcing mechanisms, supplier feedback and responses, according to outlined specifications or statement of work; supports the identification of appropriate suppliers.
• Acts as a contact with supplier including supporting initiation of the relationship, negotiating basic commercial and other legal terms, executing the contract, and managing supplier fulfillment.
• Makes low impact decisions as it pertains to one's own area of work.
• Collaborates with individuals inside own team to complete the team's work.
• Executes individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with supervision.

Level Of Responsibility

• Works under close supervision.
• Responsible for own work. Decision-making is limited. Impact of decisions is readily apparent. Errors made typically only impact timeline (i.e., require additional time to correct).
• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey information that may be somewhat complex to others who may have limited knowledge of the subject in question.
• Role may require basic negotiation and influence, cooperation, tact, and diplomacy.
• Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department. Erroneous decisions, failure to achieve results may cause delays in schedules and result in the re-allocation of some resources.
• All tasks are simple in nature, consisting of a limited number of steps and can easily be referenced using directions or manuals.
• Some creativity may be required to troubleshoot technical problems or deal with novel circumstances.
• Limited problem-solving required, generally in the nature of troubleshooting simple processes or technology.

Requirements & Tech Stack

No specific technologies listed.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree. OR High School Diploma or Equivalent and 1+ year of buyer, procurement, supply chain, or related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, or related field.
• Preferred: 2+ years of industry-specific experience in Procurement, Operations, or related work experience.
• Preferred: 1+ year of experience working in a large matrixed organization.