Summary

The role will be responsible for proactively managing, developing, and executing category and agency strategies for our Marketing supplier portfolio; inclusive of managing the end to end supplier management lifecycle. You should have strong leadership, communication and analytical skills and a proven ability to manage a high functioning and dynamic team. You will lead with a partnership mentality, and focus on business enablement. You will model teamwork and collaboration skills and have a noticeable positive impact on the velocity and success of your teammates. The ability to build relationships with business partners across the organization to ensure understanding of goals and priorities is a core requirement in this role. You must demonstrate collaboration internally and externally, have a passionate focus on success, and commitment to continuous improvement.

You Will

1. Support Block leadership strategic planning efforts through: Heavy focus on sourcing (via best class sourcing methodologies) Contract negotiation, Risk mitigation, Ongoing management and performance of supplier relationships 
2. Be a trusted partner to the Marketing team in developing new strategies in an effort to increase delivery through people, processes, tools, and suppliers 
3. Ensure smooth performance of daily operations, allowing them to concentrate on more progressive activities 
4. Be the source of bringing in the best outside best practices by leveraging various sources of information and your external network
5. Oversee complex, Block-wide supplier relations, developing solutions to new problems and using your foresight to anticipate future trends and issues 
6. Establish partnerships with important business partners aimed at identifying, understanding and fulfilling their requirements 
7. Develop selection/negotiation criteria, establish purchasing goals, coordinate resources, and provide category leadership following long-term buying goals 
8. Collaborate with business partners to lead contract negotiation with suppliers; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify important benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements 
9. Identify and realize cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities and build a culture of long-term savings on procurement costs without compromising supply assurance or quality 
10. Assist to establish supplier life-cycle strategy to oversee planning, sourcing and selection of new suppliers, manage data for supplier performance and manage supplier off-boarding and transition 
11. Explore new technologies to optimize performance and transparency to business partners 
12. Support internal and external audit, SOX compliance and due diligence requests 
13. Support other ad hoc projects

You Have

1. Minimum of 10 years of strategic procurement or supplier management experience; in a high-growth technology environment preferred 
2. At least 5 years in a Marketing management position, which includes direct people management experience
3. Deep network across the marketing agency ecosystem
4. Ability to project manage, demonstrate project status, key actions, risks and opportunities 
5. Ability to navigate in unstructured environments while garnering trust with internal customers
6. Experience proactively resolving performance issues with assigned suppliers to ensure resolution 
7. Experience leveraging technology and financial systems to extract and analyze data 
8. Bachelor's degree in preferably in Procurement, Business Administration, Finance, Technology or related field
9. MBA/advanced technical degree is preferred 

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

Zone A:

$189,000—$283,600 USD

Zone B:

$189,000—$283,600 USD

Zone C:

$189,000—$283,600 USD

Zone D:

$189,000—$283,600 USD

Skills

• Leadership
• Marketing
• Negotiations Skills
• Strategic Thinking
• Team Collaboration