Lead the Global Procurement and Strategic Partner Team supporting the business needs for supply acquisition and partnerships.
Develop a Supplier Relationship Management Process and Tracker across all supply sources
Conduct and oversee supplier rate card negotiations, and partnership agreements
Assist with annual budgeting
Evaluate current partnership programs and help identify areas of opportunity to increase overall supply capacity and reduction in costs
Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness
Be the Supply Acquisition insights expert across the Toluna group and create strong relationships with stakeholders across key groups functions: operations, sales, supply, technology and marketing
Aggressively develop consumer network in key and growth markets and emerging business needs (ADID, hashed emails, API marketplace, etc.)
Identify and integrate with strategic partners that supply niche audience groups
Collaborate closely with the Head of Utilization & Feasibility to optimize supply channel with programmatic pricing and supply
Responsible for increasing partner network and ensuring best in class quality of supply

WHAT YOU HAVE:

8+ years of experience in the market research, digital marketing, or panel and community industry
5+ years of global supply procurement experience
5+ years in a successful leadership position
Superstar negotiating and networking skills
Excellent understanding of market research specific to supply and sampling management
Understanding of tools associated to research, insights, analytics, sampling and surveying
An entrepreneurial mindset – you need to be a strategist and hands-on
Innovative, creative, dedicated and possess high energy
Work effectively with sales, services and marketing to collect client/business feedback to adapt to Toluna’s supply acquisition plan
Strong presentation and communication skills.
Bachelor’s degree in procurement, business, finance, or related field preferred