Sourcing in Procurement

Senior Sourcing Associate Graduate with 3 years of experience including 1 years of sourcing experience in initiating executing evaluating and managing strategic sourcing activities Good understanding of 510 direct or indirect categories including but not limited to software hardware networking data centre. The Sr Sourcing Associate will execute intermediate and complex sourcing projects from start to finish including but not limited to sourcing requests validation per LinkedIn guidelines requirements analysis for the bid packages communicating with LinkedIn requesters to close any data gaps prepare and publish the package to the identified suppliers for bidding purposes following up with suppliers to ensure adequate participation and summarizing proposals back to the requestor Responsibilities include Provides sourcing services RFP RFI RFQ based on predefined service levels Create and manage reverse auctions with minimal supervision Manage and lead Sourcing Execution and driving value from the projects Manage LinkedIn expectations and ensure project success