Job Description

Job Description

Albertsons Safeway is working to become the favorite food and drug retailer in every market it serves. The organization includes 2,252 stores, 23 distribution facilities and 20 manufacturing plants with over 270,000 employees across 34 states and the District of Columbia. The company is publicly owned with supermarkets across the country that includes: Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Randall's, Tom Thumb, Carrs, ACME, Jewel-Osco, Lucky, Shaw's, Star Market, Super Saver, United Supermarkets, Market Street and Amigos.

The Strategic Sourcing Department has an opening for a Senior Leader of IT Strategic Sourcing. This position is located at our Corporate Office in Pleasanton, CA; however, work location is flexible depending on the candidate.

We offer a great work-life balance, yet intense, challenging and fast-paced working environment that ultimately celebrates results but demands absolute professionalism at every step. We welcome and value diversity, unique experiences, and wide skills sets.

Who you are: The ideal candidate is a results-oriented visionary global IT strategic sourcing leader with robust experience providing leadership in an environment of change; a problem solver with an entrepreneurial mindset who is persistently looking for places to improve.

We are looking for: A dynamic global strategic sourcing technology leader who can drive change and add tremendous value to an evolving organization, while developing the people, processes, and results to the highest levels of performance; an objectives/metrics driven executive supporting the top level objectives for the company. The individual must also have proven partnership skills as well as an ability to influence executive leadership.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Build out and lead a world-class IT sourcing organization as it undergoes a major technical and organizational transformation
* Create and deploy a consistent methodology to select IT suppliers/ vendors that meet Albertsons' business requirements and ensure that all due diligence is performed ahead of any agreements
* Partner with IT executive leadership to identity opportunities to optimize cost and quality of products and services as we transform the organization with an eye towards simplifying and rationalizing our vendor partners and tool/product utilization
* Drive significant year-over-year improvements in total cost of ownership and capital spend while maintaining and improving service levels
* Maximize ROI with existing and future IT asset investments
* Develop processes to evaluate, authorize and manage external relationships/use of outside vendors and resources to accomplish IT initiatives and projects
* Establish and oversee vendor performance metrics to ensure service levels are met or exceeded

Qualifications:

* MBA or Master's Degree (preferred, but not required)
* 12+ years of experience in Strategic Sourcing, with a minimum of 8+ years in IT categories
* Proven experience in global IT sourcing and procurement capabilities, including insourcing and outsourcing both onshore and offshore
* Proven experience in Public Cloud negotiations and management
* Consulting experience (preferred, but not required)
* Proven experience in effectively managing executive-level strategic supplier relationships
* Demonstrated negotiation skills in strategic buying/contracting and extensive knowledge of key suppliers
* Exceptional supplier relationship and contract/conflict management skills
* Ability to challenge the status quo while maintaining strong partnerships with business owners
* Excellent written and oral communication skills

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this job classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and skills required of personnel so classified.

Diversity is fundamental at Albertsons Companies. We foster an inclusive working environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee is both recognized and valued. We believe that building successful relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible through the diversity of our people. And a diverse workforce leads to better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and respect.

The Albertsons Companies policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion and other conditions of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, medical condition, marital status or any other legally protected status.

We support a drug-free workplace. All applicants offered a position are required to pass a pre-employment drug test before final employment.

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