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About the Team
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About the Role
Workday is looking for an experienced Global Sourcing Manager to join our Global Procurement Office team in Tokyo, to support our procurement activities across Japan and other international locations. This role will be responsible for aligning sourcing category strategies with business and company requirements to maximize value and partner with business stakeholders. This includes executing the end-to-end Sourcing process of creating and managing category strategies, spend and market analysis, running multiple RFx, negotiating contracts and pricing, and supplier management. He/she should have deep sourcing and vendor management experience across multiple categories, be able to operate at all levels of the organization and move seamlessly between tactical and strategic tasks. Additionally, this person must have a keen eye for detail, be able to provide insights based on market conditions and trends, and partner with local, regional and global team members of the procurement team.
About You
Responsibilities:
- Stakeholder Management - Be a trusted advisor and partner to Workday’s internal and external business stakeholders, advising on procurement policies and strategies. A key responsibility will be building and managing Workday internal business partners.
- Teamwork - Partnership, communication and strong collaboration with other procurement team members located locally, regionally and globally.
- Category Management - Develop and execute strategies across multiple sourcing categories.
- Supplier Management - Manage key supplier relationships across the region. Identify, qualify and formalize which suppliers should be aligned with preferred supplier status based on segmentation modelling. Utilize this data to build supplier strategies.
- Negotiations - Lead the business negotiation process with internal partners and suppliers. Manage contract to completion. Develop negotiation approach, fallback positions, acceptable terms and conditions through to closure. Identify and manage all violations and exceptions to existing supplier contracts.
- Purchasing Compliance - Educating stakeholders and ensuring purchases follow the company’s policies and are compliant.
- RFI, RFP, RFQ services - Own and lead the supplier interface for all RFI, RFP and RFQ services. Partner with appropriate internal stakeholders. Manage the end to end process from creation to selection to contract implementation.
- Cost Modelling - Own and provide industry and actual unit and service cost data which feeds into TCO and RFx evaluations.
- Business Planning - Be accountable to coordinate suppliers and Workday internal customers and review supplier and business roadmaps.
- Sourcing initiatives – Lead/support the maturation and continuous improvement of Sourcing at Workday.
**Technical Expertise **
- Technology and product scanning/Market Intelligence - Support efforts to identify latest trends in technologies and industry offerings.
- Demonstrated technical knowledge of multiple categories including, but not limited to: Real Estate & Workplace Services, Professional Services, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Marketing, Meetings & Events.
- Knowledge and application of sourcing and contract templates. Expertise on commercial and legal contract clauses, terms and conditions, positions
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Procurement / Sourcing/ Supply Chain role
- Fluent in Japanese and Full Professional Proficiency in English
- Demonstrated advanced sourcing experience leading multiple end-to-end RFx, conducting supplier management and managing multiple categories including, but not limited to: Real Estate & Workplace Services, Professional Services, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Marketing, Meetings & Events.
- Ability to work and partner with global team members across international locations
- Executing advanced Sourcing and Category Management concepts, practices, and procedures
- Advanced understanding of contracts and contract management.
- Expert at developing and executing negotiation strategies
- Experience with ERP systems and tools
- Experience with AI tools for productivity and procurement
- Possess a positive attitude, excellent communication and analytical skills
- Proactive, result oriented, with a can-do attitude in meeting critical deadlines
- Undergraduate Degree in Supply Chain, Business or Engineering; Master’s Degree preferred
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
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