Natera is seeking an experienced Senior Manager Purchasing who can join and drive the procurement categories and strategies within our organization. In this dynamic role, you will be the leader for all indirect procurement categories including CapEx, Finance, Operations, IT, HR, Legal and other various growing areas. You will be responsible for assisting with sourcing activities by supporting internal stakeholders while delivering efficiencies and optimization within the organization. The ideal candidate will be a versatile individual who has both a roll up the sleeve’s mentality and excellent customer service skills.

This position can be based in San Carlos, CA; Austin, TX or remotely from your home office with occasional travel.

Responsibilities:

• Managing direct reports and promoting the utilization of procurement methodology through category management and strategic sourcing activities within the Indirect category space.
• A big plus would be someone who also possesses strategic and technical experience in a corporate setting. In this role, you will report to Senior Purchasing Manager.
• Establish and maintain effective partnerships with key stakeholders aimed at identifying, understanding, and fulfilling their requirements
• Manage others and hire as business dictates
• Manage day to day indirect procurement function of purchase requests to purchase orders
• Identify cost savings opportunities and manages cost reduction activities to achieve annual cost reduction goal
• Initiate and execute vendor optimization plans for existing vendors to deliver cost reduction, supply assurance, and quality improvement
• Review existing contracts and understand business requirements; formulate guidelines and design standard vendor contract protocols
• Assist in development financial analytics to support commercial term negotiations with performance dashboards and ROI based evaluation tools
• Assist to establish vendor life-cycle strategy to oversee planning, sourcing and selection of new indirect suppliers, manage data for vendor performance and manage vendor off-boarding and transition
• Develop and maintain category strategies to meet business objectives (e.g. best cost, quality, service, resilience.) Ensure category strategy aligns with existing and future needs
• Proactively collaborate with business partners and stakeholders to lead contract negotiation with suppliers; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify key benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements
• Identify and realization of cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities and build a culture of long-term savings on procurement costs without compromising supply assurance or quality
• Ability to implement Category Strategy, and perform Spend Analysis
• Create and report category activities on a regular basis
• Lead cross-functional teams in the identification of alternative product/suppliers facilitate qualification trials and conduct supplier management to drive continuous improvement
• Manage supplier contracts and any modifications within contracts (expiration dates, renewals)
• Create POs for relevant internal stakeholders, coordinate based on supplier’s delivery conditions

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree with 8+ years of Procurement experience managing IT, Facilities, and hardware commodity purchases, or equivalent relevant and pertinent experience.
• Metrics driven, with the ability to exercise judgment and operate independently

The pay range for this role is$98,200 - $147,800 yearly. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.  

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