Job Description
This position is to be a seasoned and experienced senior professional that optimizes the value of and manages the relationships between one or more Church departments or organizations and preferred suppliers and vendors.
Responsibilities
- Provides advanced, specialized, and senior-level experience to Church and department leaders during vendor negotiations for strategic and enterprise-wide purchases and supply-chain decisions.
- Perform international work and help departments and vendors comply with complicated import and export regulations to minimize risk and exposure to the Church.
- Manage supplier relationships as a negotiating partner.
- Leverage the global Church enterprise expenditures to qualify, select, and establish legal contracts with the best possible vendors of products and services at the best value for the Church.
- Ensure supplier performance of contracted terms and conditions.
- Understand and articulate customer and internal partner needs by documenting, designing solutions to ensure that both product and service needs of sponsoring organizations are satisfied at the best possible value.
- Interact with vendors, consultants and professional groups.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree with 7 years related experience required.
- In-depth supply-chain knowledge and experience in supplier relationship management, strategic outsourcing or procurement operations management.
- Service-oriented, detail-minded, organized, multi-tasking, highly proactive and self-motivated to accomplish the work.
- Professional English communication skills, written and verbal.
- Willing and able to travel in countries/regions within the Asia Pacific Areas.
About Us
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord's work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinancesour employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
