OverviewThe Group Manager of Strategic Sourcing is a leadership role responsible for overseeing a team of Strategic Sourcing and Category Managers and driving the sourcing and value chain optimization strategies for all technology-related spend categories. This role collaborates with senior leaders within Intuit’s IT organization and is responsible for managing $1.3B+ in annual spend across data, ai, saas, hardware, telecommunications, and emerging technologies. The Group Manager will bring together multiple teams across Intuit to identify opportunities to drive operational improvements, cost optimization, risk mitigation, and ensure best value from technology 3rd parties and investments. This role demands a strong understanding of both the technology landscape, impact on business outcomes and total cost of ownership, with a focus on driving business transformation within the IT organization. The Group Manager of Strategic Sourcing is pivotal to the success of the company's growth, operational excellence and acceleration. This role demands a strategic thinker, business partner, strong connector with strong analytical skills, capable of connecting the dots between 3rd parties, Intuit’s value chain and impact on growth & innovation that will drive Intuit's technology objectives forward.This role requires leading a small team to develop and execute long and short-term sourcing strategies, with an equal emphasis placed on the ability to identify, analyze, and quantify opportunities as well as the ability to manage RFI, RFPs and handle challenging vendor negotiations. What you'll bring
Relevant industry experience
10+ years of technology-related strategic sourcing experience
Experience with Technology Sourcing, Data and AI
Experience with ERP and Source-to-Pay tools
Experience developing and/or presenting business cases
Comfort with written and verbal communication of quantitative and qualitative information with executives
Bachelor’s degree in Business or other quantitative discipline
Experience in contract development, administration, and/or management
Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment with several stakeholders
Experience in negotiating deals with global vendors
Experience in managing global vendor relationships
Experience in value chain optimization and assessments
Experience in managing transformational projects that require high-level of change management
Solid financial and/or quantitative modeling
Attention to detail and ability to analyze complex data
Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
Availability to directly support and interact with multiple international business units
Desired skills:
A proven track record of cost reduction and productivity improvements; ability to influence and drive change while building solid relationships with your internal clients and external vendors
Internal or external business consulting experience highly desired
Knowledge of global supply base
Strong analytical skills; MS Excel proficient; financial modeling preferred
Strong written and communication skills; MS PowerPoint, MS Word proficient
Ability to work independently as well as lead and participate in cross functional teams
Ability to collaborate in a team environment
Awareness of best practices regarding vendor management (e.g., strategic alliances, supplier certification, etc.)
Excellent documentation and requirements analysis
How you will leadLeadership
Take ownership and responsibility for proactively leading and managing strategic sourcing initiatives with or without analytical support
Lead portfolio including multiple projects that require strategy, planning and execution of transformational, complex and innovative projects
Direct, define, and implement sourcing strategies and initiatives to drive the delivery of corporate earnings, growth strategy, and business transformation objectives for category portfolio
Drives total cost of ownership mindset with team and stakeholders including the ability to strategically evaluate build/buy/acquire decisions
Connect dots between product strategies and company input goals
Contribute suggestions to assist management in the development of organizational strategy, structure and operational roadmap
Provide leadership, mentorship, and management of team
Sets strategic priorities and develops goals and objectives for team planning resources accordingly
Proactively builds relationships with and influences executive stakeholders
Collaborate with procurement teams where applicable to ensure procurement efficiency and automation, sourced supplier utilization, risk mitigation and contract compliance
Partner with International teams to implement global suppliers, establish local engagement model to expand GBS global presence
Engages with several stakeholders at all levels, primarily Director/VP and above
Demonstrate and practice a high degree of professional integrity and ethical responsibility in all business activities
Keep abreast of industry innovation and bring ideas that will help the company re-imagine and leapfrog ahead resulting in advancements in technologies, process methodologies or establishing supplier alliances
Opportunity Assessment
Own and drive opportunity assessments, including total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, with the right balance of strategic insights (spend, supplier, category, contract) and representation of current state to drive senior stakeholder engagement
Evaluate and recommend strategic opportunities/initiatives to Strategic Sourcing leadership utilizing current and emerging business models, assessing short-term and long-term industry and strategic considerations
Develop an effective approach to present and obtain sponsorship from senior leadership on opportunities
Strategic Sourcing Process Execution and Project Management
Provide category expertise and identify potential sources of supply, determine capabilities of suppliers’ product and service offerings, and relate offerings to stakeholder needs
Demonstrate the ability to put a structured sourcing process into action in formal and informal negotiations, and leverage the process to resolve conflicts and build consensus
Drive project activity across large cross-functional team through communication of expectations, decisions, changes, enforcement of deadlines, and creation and evaluation of deliverables
Define data needed to meet objectives and develop an effective plan for gathering it (including spend, contracts, supplier information, stakeholder insights, current state process & tools)
Utilize analysis to solve business problems and draw conclusions and insights that are not immediately obvious
Gather, analyze, and document requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis
Lead and Manage RFI/RFQ/RFPs from start to finish, which includes creation, issuance, and facilitation of the entire process, through vendor evaluations (using scorecards) and vendor selection
Drive consensus across critical business decisions that are complex and high impact to the organization
Create supporting documentation to applicable standards such that the value generated can be included in executive-level presentations
Deliver value and projects that drives transformation of a category, innovation, insourcing/outsourcing, TCO Savings and Efficiencies
Continuous Improvement and Supplier Management
Partner with stakeholders to review ongoing vendor segmentation and identify vendors to be included in the VMO program within vendor portfolio
Performs assigned vendor management activities (business reviews, scorecard reviews, discussions) in alignment with the VMO approach, framework, SRM team roles and responsibilities for each vendor
Manages supplier performance monitoring and measurement and works with the vendor owners on any key escalations or remediation
Identify SRM opportunities with key vendors and focus areas that drive continuous improvement across KPIs and pushes innovation
People Management
Manages a team of 3 or more which may be geographically dispersed individuals
EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Intuit will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with requirements of local law.
