Strategic Sourcing Specialist

hace 1 semana


San José, Costa Rica Databricks A tiempo completo

This is a hands-on role with the unique opportunity to help further the development of Databricks Procurement organization. You will support the Strategic Sourcing function in all purchasing needs, with a focus on go-to-market (Marketing and Sales) across Databricks departments and partners. You will support processes for spend management, price negotiations, and contract management.

**The impact you will have**:

- Increase spend under management, deliver cost savings, and lead process efficiencies
- Prepare Requests for Information (RFI), Requests for Proposal (RFP), Request for Quotation (RFQ), evaluation of responses.
- Support evaluation, selection, development, and retention of the suppliers providing goods and services needed to conduct business.
- Use current spend information and knowledge to identify potential cost reduction plans
- Improve supplier performance against negotiated service level agreements and quality metrics.

**What we look for**:

- 3+ years supporting strategic sourcing for indirect categories of spend
- Driven person who can work in a team environment and communicate at a high level
- Partner with suppliers and internal business customers
- Experience delivering price optimization and cost savings.
- Ability to work in a fast-growing environment
- Process and customer service driven
- Experience with procure-to-pay systems (Coupa, Netsuite, and Ironclad)
- Fluent in English

**About Databricks**

Databricks is the lakehouse company. More than 7,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, H&M and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world's toughest problems. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

**Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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