Procurement Sourcing Senior Manager - Real Estate & Facilities

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What You'll Do

As a Procurement Sourcing Senior Manager, you will bring world-class sophistication to our procurement activities on a consistent basis.

• Through deep analysis actively find opportunities, develop strategy and category plans that deliver significant value, implement and drive those through, guiding and managing stakeholders along the way
• Work with stakeholders to develop of category strategies aligned with project pipeline, business needs, and risk appetite.
• Run category reviews and identifying opportunities for consolidation, innovation, or cost reduction.
• Procure a full range of global Facilities and Capital Projects, including office fit-out, catering, cleaning, reception, security and real estate brokerage
• Integrate and build relationships with stakeholders. Identify key buyers, collaborate with those to increase savings as well as the value we receive from our vendor base
• Be seen as a Trusted Advisor to the Global Real Estate team
• Ability to Influence senior stakeholders to deliver the best commercial and operational outcomes for BCG
• Build strong relationships with suppliers that deliver value across the whole life cycle of the procurement and supplier management process
• Prepare, issue, and manage RFx process; evaluate proposals; make recommendations using internal and external data sources
• Mitigating vendor related risk, and contribute in managing the category vendor base
• Establish effective communication channels, performance metrics and sharing of BCG best-practice within network
• Negotiate contracts / agreements within the parameters provided by internal Legal team
• Track and monitor spend, vendors and market development
• Increase spend under Procurement's management within category
• Support and provide input to the Center of Excellence in the implementation of purchasing processes, structures and supporting tools, to enable capture of savings and long-term development

This role will report to the Category Leader. This individual should expect to have a great deal of interaction with our North America Regional and Global Leadership and people on all levels and functions within BCG. A certain amount of travel will also be part of the job.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

What You'll Bring

Strong Real Estate and or Facilities Procurement experience (5+ years minimum)

University degree or equivalent

Who You'll Work With

BCG spends ~$1.6B on goods and services across the firm globally. At its core, Procurement is accountable for ensuring that BCG is supplied with goods and services that meet business requirements, drive value and at best whole life cost to BCG.

The functional procurement team at BCG is a healthy, yet nascent operating function that has generated material savings to BCG over the past 5 years. Over the past 2 years, we’ve embarked upon a procurement transformation to define and implement strategies, organization, systems and policies to create a sustainable operating model. This model should maximize value from our suppliers, mitigate risk and meet savings targets. BCG is a highly matrixed firm where purchasing decisions are often taken at the local level, therefore this transformation will need to be carried out with high levels of stakeholder engagement, alignment and collaboration.

The BCG Global Procurement function is currently made up of more than 45 procurement professionals located in London, Stockholm, New Delhi, Boston and Munich. This Sourcing Manager position will be supporting our team with sourcing projects on a strategic and operational level.

Scope of work will be global, regional as well as local, requiring procurement experience, relationship building, sell-in capabilities and sensitivity to local requirements. The individual taking on this challenge must possess a very high level of self-motivation / drive, persistency, resourcefulness and a willingness to facilitate change.

Additional info

In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.

Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.

The base salary range for this role in Boston is $136,000.00 - $168,000.00.

This is an estimated range, however, specific base salaries within the range depend on various factors such as experience and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high-end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.

In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 20% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.

All of our plans provide best in class coverage :

Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children

Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs

Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits

Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually

Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities

Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan

Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement

Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)

Paid sick time on an as needed basis

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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