The opportunity
At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences.
What you'll do
Develop plans on cost savings strategies for various categories: primarily focusing on sourcing and qualification of third-party vendors, and supplier consolidation to high value vendors.
Partner with stakeholders to fully understand business roadmaps and create: sourcing pipeline & developing supplier strategy / plan for your categories.
Gaining understanding of industry trends to make educated recommendations: about pricing, competition, supplier optimization, and market compression.
Lead the negotiation of contracts with new suppliers and/or the renegotiation: of existing contracts to accomplish lowest total cost of ownership, meet savings objectives, all while balancing stakeholder/business priorities.
Continuously measure, manage and improve supplier actual performance against negotiated SLA.
Driving request for information (RFI) and request for proposals (RFP) with: vendors, overseeing review of the proposals with business, compliance, security and legal teams and managing the entire bid to business award to contract execution process.
What they're looking for
- Manage and influence internal stakeholders to make the best business: decisions that optimize value, cost, and vendor performance.
- Quickly adapt and support other categories as needed which could include: professional services, HR and benefits, real estate and workplace, legal services, software, cloud, meeting and events, and travel.
- Deliver on complex S2P improvement projects or other improvement projects.
- A Bachelor Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering and/or: Operations including 7+ years’ experience in a senior procurement role.
