The scope of Strategic Sourcing Manager is to provide value (e.g. hitting annual savings targets, reducing contractual risk, and meet stakeholder requirements) while building strong relationships with their internal business units and drive enterprise-wide sourcing, category management, and contract negotiation. This role will be an individual contributor on the Professional Services Sourcing Team managing their work stream and supplier contracts from project development to contract signature. Individuals successful in this role will be able to navigate sourcing processes with a sense of urgency, curate new strategies for vendor engagement, renewal processing, and stakeholder enablement, as well as achieve department and company-wide KPIs.What you get to do in this role:Drive best value supplier selection to achieve year over year savings on over $600M spendPractice tenured experience in category management and sourcing in areas: HR, Finance, Tax, Contingent Workforce, Sales, GTM, Benefits, Workplace Services, Facilities, Real Estate, SecurityEnsure sourcing serves as a critical enabler and value add to the business, while also governing spend and reducing contractual risk for our business stakeholders in operationsManage, advise, and engage in the sourcing and contracting processes including evaluating, negotiating, and entering into contracts and renewing relationships with suppliers of goods and services. Identify, evaluate and implement sourcing industry trends to advance company strategic sourcing excellenceStrengthen partnerships with business functions across the company to provide valuable consultation. Ensure key business partners understand the strategic and tactical direction for sourcing efforts allowing for integration with company and department strategiesDevelop a strong strategic advisor/partner relationship with the legal function to ensure best in class contracting practices are in place globally
