Brainbox Consulting BV aligning great talent with clients’ needs is at the core of who we are. We are passionate about our consultants, our clients, and our Partners. Our rich IT legacy combined with our unyielding care for our people and business is the driving force behind all we do, and we deliver! On this journey, we are looking for Sourcing manager who is also interested to take on a wide range of activities.

As Sourcing Manager, you will drive strategic sourcing initiatives that shape future. Leading complex, high-value projects, influencing senior stakeholders, and ensuring procurement delivers innovation and measurable impact across the organization.

Your key responsibilities include:
Sourcing Management

• Identify business needs, category specifications and requirements as input for sourcing project.
• Responsible for developing the sourcing event and the management of the RFX process. Prepare sourcing documentation and train suppliers, design and issue the RFX and consolidate RFX responses.
• Conduct contract negotiations with suppliers. Agree and document terms & conditions and finalize the approved contract.
• Manage contract approvals and start onboarding process and content creation. Send the contract to the supplier and retrieve signatures from both parties. Provide input for the Back Office team with performing KYS checks and onboarding suppliers.
• Support the Procurement Operations team with approving and reviewing vendor master data. Provide all information to operational tools during the supplier onboarding process and support contract management with supplier phase-out.
• Provide input for the Leadership team with evaluating available supplier innovations and strategies. Function as a senior sourcing SME and possess deep category knowledge to execute complex sourcing initiatives for assigned categories.
• Providing support to the category managers for business partnering activities, such as establishing stakeholder relationships, managing strategic initiatives, managing business innovations and assessing innovation opportunities.
• Support category managers with identifying suppliers in scope during supplier segmentations. Support category management with proposal negotiations and selecting suppliers.
• Drive contract and third-party risk compliance.

Project Management

• Execute complex sourcing initiatives and projects, communicate and advise senior stakeholders and manage global projects.

Strategic challenges

• Manage sourcing projects in the context of a multi-disciplinary stakeholder landscape consisting of business contract owner(s), multiple support functions, and Supplier by finding the optimal balance between value add, flexibility, and third-party risk management.