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Why USAA?

Let’s do something that really matters.

At USAA, we have an important mission: facilitating the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. Not all of our employees served in our nation’s military, but we all share in the mission to give back to those who did. We’re working as one to build a great experience and make a real impact for our members.

We believe in our core values of honesty, integrity, loyalty and service. They’re what guides everything we do – from how we treat our members to how we treat each other. Come be a part of what makes us so special!

We are currently seeking a dedicated Sourcing and Procurement Manager Mid-level to participate in Hiring Our Heroes (HOH) Fellowship Cohort 24-3 with USAA. The HOH Fellowship Program builds an extraordinary experience for transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses that increase competitiveness and improve opportunities to find meaningful employment by providing development, skills, and exposure to corporate working environment and private sector business operations. HOH Fellowship Programs are best-in-class workforce development programs that are cohort based and twelve weeks in duration.

As a participant in the Military Fellowship Program, we understand that in most cases Fellows are ending their active service commitments and actively relocating. Therefore, while participating in the Fellowship program, Fellows are authorized to work remotely. If selected for full time employment, we offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, and Charlotte, NC. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

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:

• 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 partners and suppliers to ensure beneficial, 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.

• Applies proficient knowledge and experience negotiating and authoring to implement low to moderately complex agreements.

• Uses background experience in Procurement Strategy and planning to develop routine sourcing strategies.

• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

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 using 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 projects.

What sets you apart:

• Contracting, negotiation, procurement and acquisition management experience

• Information technology, HR, Legal, marketing background

• Current participant in the Hiring our Heroes Cohort 24-3 or a current USAA contractor in the 24-2 HOH Non-direct cohort.

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: $67,220 - $128,480.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

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.