As a Strategic Sourcing Project Manager you will be responsible for developing strong and effective project plans and timelines. Reporting to the Sr Project Manager, you will leverage your experience to deliver significant value to the Strategic Sourcing team by managing the end-to-end strategic sourcing processes including third party risk, sustainability, supplier diversity, and audits.

In addition, you will:

• Support full reporting aspects - gathering, evaluating, and distributing
• Identify and evaluate diverse suppliers, with a goal of increasing the percentage of category spend with diverse suppliers
• Advocate for and track compliance
• Build project plans and timelines to ensure key milestones are being captured and met as it relates to assigned sourcing and contracting projects
• Effectively communicate status updates to key stakeholders, including timely identification and escalation/resolution of issues
• Participate actively to improve Sustainability, Supplier Diversity, and 3rd party Risk goals
• Strong organizational skills and ability to maintain documentation processes

We're excited about you if you have:

• 2+ years of strategic sourcing project management experience, with strong expertise in Supplier Sustainability, Supplier Diversity, and Third-Party Risk Management.
• Excellent prioritization skills with the ability to adapt and change quickly.
• A continuous learning mindset
• Ability to influence and drive change while building solid relationships with your internal clients and external suppliers.
• Excellent project and timeline management skills to manage sourcing projects end-to-end, from project intake, through onboarding to project closure and transition.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills, including oral, written, and interpersonal. Experience interfacing with senior-level stakeholders.
• Advanced analytics, excel, presentation, data visualization, and Sourcing tools skills

You'll love working here because:

• Our client believes in championing all beauty, living with courage, and standing fearlessly together to celebrate our differences. We will never stop building a community where diversity is expected, self-expression is honored, all are welcomed, and you are included. We belong to something beautiful.
• The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented, supportive, smart, and kind leaders and teams - people you can be proud to work with.
• The business. It feels good to win - and our client is a leader in the retail industry, defining experiential retail with a digital focus and creating the most loved beauty community in the world...with the awards and accolades to back it up.

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $45.61 to $50.68 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! 

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.