Director, Strategic Sourcing, Marketing & Research

ViacomCBS (NASDAQ: VIAC; VIACA) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic consumer brands, its portfolio includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. The company delivers the largest share of the U.S. television audience and boasts one of the industry's most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, ViacomCBS provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions for partners on five continents.

This role will be responsible for providing our Marketing and Research Sourcing team strategic direction and conducting vendor contract negotiations.  This position will require interaction with media, creative, research, ad sales, finance, and legal departments across ViacomCBS and will work with various agency and vendor partners.  He/she/they will serve as a primary point-of-contact for business owners, delivering high impact and ROI focused marketing and research sourcing strategies and negotiations. The role can be headquartered in LA or NY.

Responsibilities to include, but not limited to:

• Deliver ongoing value creation on domestic and global category spend
• Evaluate and identify opportunities across the enterprise and at the brand level for new strategic sourcing opportunities
• Gain alignment from all key constituents on proposed projects and agreements
• Deliver continuous YOY improvement on % of category managed spend covered under approved category strategies and with preferred vendors
• Act as liaison between vendors, stakeholders, legal, and finance constituents in order to drive efficiencies in process and drive projects to completion
• Partner with key stakeholders, legal, finance to build and implement Category Strategy to deliver targeted savings while meeting business requirements for creativity, quality and time
• Create forecasting models for future opportunities
• Dedicatedly integrate with key business leaders / their teams – be in a position to anticipate / support / steer sourcing needs before they become “last minute requests”
• Minimize cost and maximize value in the category sourcing process by selecting / deploying optimal sourcing levers.
• Lead and handle RFI/RFQ/RFPs from start to finish, which includes creation, issuance, and facilitation of the entire process, through vendor evaluations to onboarding.
• Provide expertise in the respective categories and demonstrate understanding to figure out potential sources of supply, resolve capabilities of suppliers’ product and service offerings, and relate offerings to business needs.
• Partner with vendors to build/maintain constructive, long term relationships
• Actively engage in vendor management processes ranging from vendor identification and selection to contract, compliance and performance management including scorecards and regular reviews

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of sourcing experience (e.g., consulting experience, or RFI/RFQ/RFP.) or relevant experience in a marketing/research function with demonstrated value creation skills.
• Proven negotiation skills – can lead complex negotiations to successful outcomes
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to manage competing priorities
• Experience working in an analytical capacity
• Bachelors degree. MBA preferred.

Additional Qualifications

• A consistent track record of cost reduction and productivity improvements; ability to influence and inspire change while building solid relationships with your internal clients and external vendors
• Experience developing global category strategies
• Media/entertainment industry experience working for a similar organization and/or studio.
• Proven skills in supplier management
• Background working with Media/Creative Agencies
• Background in Consulting
• Experience leading multiple simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in leading global vendor relationships
• Financial and/or quantitative modeling skills including development of business cases
• Availability to directly support and interact with multiple business units on multiple time zones

ViacomCBS is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet. 

At ViacomCBS, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. ViacomCBS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status. 

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