Job Description

Salary: Not Specified

Location Type: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

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Company Description

At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours. We give small and medium-sized businesses cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions that enable them to manage all the hassles of running and growing a business, so business owners can get back to doing what they love. With Xplor Pay, we help businesses get paid quickly and securely – without hidden fees. We built the tech ourselves, and our platform delivers secure, transparent, fast, and accurate payments.

We are unified by our purpose of helping people to succeed. So, when you become part of our team, you also become part of the personal connection that strengthens the relationship people have with Xplor products.

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Job Description

About the Opportunity

You’ll join our Finance team — the team that provides expertise and support to our five business verticals. Working hand in hand with internal stakeholders, you’ll help them overcome obstacles by understanding their goals and challenges. You’ll enable them to focus on what really matters - helping our teams reach their full potential.

This position reports to Xplor’s VP of Global Procurement and requires a highly analytical, proactive, organized, problem solver. The Sourcing Associate needs strong communication skills, effective business partnering skills, and an ability to drive cost improvement.

The Sourcing team is responsible for effective supplier negotiations, identifying savings opportunities, and creating workflows to procure goods / services while complying with policy. The candidate must demonstrate good business judgement, be comfortable with data and succeed despite imperfect or incomplete data. The Sourcing Associate will execute within guidelines (policy, timing, budget, scope, etc.). This position frequently interacts with Xplor’s senior leaders.

Strategic Sourcing - Senior Lead Responsibilities:

• Assisting the VP of Global Procurement in implementing a Procure to Pay system.
• Managing the Procure to Pay system with the AP team.
• Creating and reporting spend data analysis.
• Driving cost out while ensuring Xplor is sourced to support / grow business.
• Managing supplier engagements - concept through execution (scope, RFP, negotiations, supplier awarding, contract execution, supplier migration / implementation).
• Maintaining a funnel of savings opportunities. Identifies and tracks opportunities, documents sourcing priorities and roadmap of sourcing activities.
• Maintaining a savings achievement tracker (in sync with finance for forecasting).
• Reporting: KPIs, preferred supplier adoption, exception reporting & business partner reporting.
• Complying with Xplor policy and standards: Terms and Conditions (payment terms, break clauses, engage legal for Xplor standard wording, disclosures, engages legal, business partner inputs, proper contact approvals, Procurement policy, etc.).
• Ensuring contracts and commercial agreements are being followed and recorded in Xplor contract repository.

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Qualifications

What would make me a good candidate?

We are looking for curious and empathetic people. We also love to hear from people who are motivated by meaningful work, resonate with our four core values, have a positive outlook, are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive working in an ever-evolving and complex environment. We are inspired by meeting big picture thinkers and doers, people who can be both tactical and strategic, aim high and put people first in everything they do.

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced skillset, preferably in technology sourcing to identify spend savings opportunities and manage from sourcing through implementation.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and motivational skills.
• Build strong internal relationships with key business stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent business judgement.