Strategic Sourcing Analyst, Senior Specialist (IT)

In This Role You Will

• Manage cross-divisional programs or multiple workstreams within a larger program, driving all phases from inception to implementation, ensuring high-quality delivery within targeted timeframes.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year program strategy with specific actions to achieve future goals.
• Communicates program status to various audiences within Vanguard through written and verbal updates.
• Offer insights on best practices and common obstacles from prior experiences, ensuring strategies align with the department's overall strategy.
• Partners in strategic sourcing efforts for key spend strategies.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships across sites, departments, divisions, and internal and external partners to support their program initiatives.
• Develops strong relationships with program leadership, sponsors, and workstream leads.
• Ensure all steps are taken to mitigate risk, and maintain control, compliance, audit, and legal requirements.
• Integrates and oversees change management efforts across the overall program.
• Closely monitors program costs and budget and escalates cost variances appropriately and timely.
• Provide subject matter expertise in managing high complexity strategic sourcing transactions, negotiations, and supplier selection for products and services.
• Develop and execute category strategies to drive maximum value across category, supplier, and deal levels.
• Understand the needs and objectives of divisions and functional partners.
• Identify and directly understand potential linkages between business needs and the relevant industry's trends.
• Perform market data analysis and clean-sheet analysis for negotiations and supplier selection.
• Leads high-complexity sourcing events.
• Collaborate with sourcing operations teams, business leaders, legal & risk for transactions Interpret and communicate contract requirements, obligations
• risk exposures to key stakeholders, including sourcing professionals and business leaders.
• Manage relationships for suppliers within assigned category.
• Mentor team members and provide training on best practices.
• Resolve escalated and complex issues and involve stakeholders as needed.
• Continually examines ways to raise standards and improve process and procedures while improving the overall performance of ESM.
• What it takes: Ten years related sourcing work experience Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience Special Factors Sponsorship Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
• About Vanguard At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
• To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients.
• To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives.
• To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team.
• From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
• How We Work Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.
• We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.