Why USAA?
We are currently seeking a dedicated Sourcing and Procurement Manager Mid-Level-HOH Military Fellowship Cohort 23-3 to participate with USAA at the following locations - San Antonio, TX, and Charlotte, NC.
USAA values a culture that is highly collaborative, and we have found that a hybrid work type helps employees gain the best of both worlds - collaborating in-person in the office and working from home when needed to achieve focused results. The actual days onsite are resolved between each employee and the employee's manager.
The Hiring Our Heroes (HOH) Fellowship Program provides an extraordinary experience for transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses that increase competitiveness and improve opportunities to find significant employment by providing development, skills, and exposure to corporate working environment and private sector business operations. The HOH Fellowship Programs are best-in-class workforce development programs that are cohort based and are twelve weeks in duration.
Consults on sourcing solutions, negotiates agreements, and manages relationships to optimize return and mitigate risk for USAA. Supports value generation sourcing and profitability improvement initiatives to enable business leaders to supplement the workforce, scale business operations, deliver operating efficiencies, and better serve our members through global service providers. Serves as a sourcing and contracting resource in meeting client needs while adhering to the end-to-end procurement and third-party risk management lifecycle and applicable laws and regulations. Optimizes USAA's use of third parties and collaborates with appropriate personnel within Procurement and across the Enterprise to drive compliant sourcing and contract execution activities.
The Opportunity
What you'll do:
Identifies and handles existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role.
Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.
Follows written risk and compliance policies, standards, and procedures for business activities.
Conducts all phases in the development of moderately complex acquisitions of third-party/affiliate solutions to include consulting on statements of work, creating requests for proposals, identification of qualified suppliers, proposal evaluations and negotiations.
Applies proficient knowledge in the design and execution of moderately complex sourcing plans and solutions designed to achieve client's strategy through deployment of third-party solutions.
Interprets the provisions and specific terms of low to complex risk contracts that can decrease the Enterprise's ability to complete the mission, damage reputation, and/or impair financial stability of the Enterprise such that capital strength of liquidity is temporarily impacted.
Collaborates with Legal and other subject matter experts as needed to interpret and ensure accuracy of contracts and resolve raised issues.
Coordinates with key partners to gather business requirements and specifications to design third-party solutions to achieve optimal business outcomes.
Provides client consultation on medium to complex actions, evaluates client requirements and advises in the development of contract specifications to achieve pre-established savings, quality, and risk/cost avoidance targets.
Validates contract against established controls to drive regulatory compliance.
Engages with internal collaborators and suppliers to ensure valuable, compliant, and consistent procurement experiences across assigned client group.
Evaluates commercial models and creates negotiated alternatives for medium to complex contract actions requiring moderate term and condition negotiation.
Uses proficient knowledge and experience negotiating and authoring to implement low to moderately complex agreements.
Applies background experience in Procurement Strategy and planning to develop routine sourcing strategies.
What you have:
Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
4 years of experience in procurement strategy, to include planning, sourcing, and/or solutioning, to include 2 years of experience negotiating and authoring contracts, terms and conditions, and pricing.
Proficient experience maximising analytical tools, including Microsoft Office products and other applicable business software, to develop analysis, charts, and/or supporting documentation.
Solid written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, interpersonal skills, and strong attention to detail.
Experience participating in cross-functional teams or pro
What sets you apart:
Contracting, negotiation, procurement and acquisition management experience
Current participant in the Hiring Our Heroes Fellowship Program: 23-3
What we offer:
Hiring Our Heroes Fellows are paid by the HOH program.
If selected for a full-time role, USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location. The hiring range for this position is: $65,090 - $124,330.
Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.
Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
If you are an existing USAA employee, please use the internal career site in OneSource to apply.
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Find your purpose. Join our mission.
USAA is unlike any other financial services organization. The mission of the association is to facilitate the financial security of its members, associates and their families through provision of a full range of highly competitive financial products and services; in so doing, USAA seeks to be the provider of choice for the military community. We do this by upholding the highest standards and ensuring that our corporate business activities and individual employee conduct reflect good judgment and common sense, and are consistent with our core values of service, loyalty, honesty and integrity.
USAA attributes its long-standing success to its most valuable resource: our 35,000 employees. They are the heart and soul of our member-service culture. When you join us, you'll become part of a thriving community committed to going above for those who have gone beyond: the men and women of the U.S. military, their associates and their families. In order to play a role on our team, you don't have to be connected to the military yourself - you just need to share our passion for serving our more than 13 million members.
USAA is an EEO/AA Employer - applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.
USAA is an EEO/AA Employer - applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.
