OverviewThe Senior Sourcing Manager, Services will be in charge of leading global sourcing activities and projects across a group of categories worth $200M+. The Professional Services scope includes, but is not limited to, Temporary Labor and Contingent Workforce, Management Consulting, Workplace Services, and HR and Benefits.This role will be a leader and contact point for the company. They will build and manage relationships with important suppliers and Intuit business owners. It will require identifying global strategic sourcing initiatives, driving cost savings, impacting efficiencies, and supporting growth strategies within the respective departments supported.This role also requires creating and implementing sourcing strategies. It also requires the ability to find, analyze, and measure opportunities, as well as managing RFIs and RFPs, and handling vendor negotiations.What you'll bringBasic qualifications:
Relevant industry experience
5-10 years of strategic sourcing or consulting experience (e.g., RFI/RFQ/RFP, reverse auctions, interests-based direct negotiations)
Experience with ERP and Source-to-Pay tools
Experience leading a team (team of direct reports or cross functional teams)
Experience developing and/or presenting business cases to executive leadership
Expertise with written and verbal communication of quantitative and qualitative information with executives
Bachelor’s degree in Business or other quantitative discipline or equivalent work experience
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 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 30% 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 and interest in key sourcing areas such as:
Management Consulting
HR Benefits
Facility Services, Construction & Maintenance
Contingent workforce
Professional Services
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
Direct, define, and implement sourcing strategies and initiatives to drive the delivery of corporate earnings, growth strategy, and business transformation objectives for responsible categories
Partner with the business to assist management in the development of tower strategy and operational roadmap
Provide leadership, mentorship to non-direct reports including strategic sourcing analysts, specialists, procurement managers and specialists
Develops plans to achieve team’s strategic priorities, goals and objectives planning projects accordingly
Proactively builds relationships with and influences stakeholders
Collaborate with procurement team where applicable to ensure sourced supplier is setup for ongoing procurement
Partner with International team with to implement global suppliers, category strategies to ensure local support
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 leap frog ahead resulting in advancements in company priorities, process methodologies, etc.
Opportunity Assessment
Conduct opportunity assessment with the right balance of strategic insights (spend, supplier, category, contract) and current state illustration 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 and present insights to senior leaders on opportunities, including alternative strategies assessments.
Conduct opportunity assessment with or without support of Strategic Sourcing Analyst
Strategic Sourcing Process Execution and Project Management
Provide category expertise and leverage that understanding to determine potential sources of supply, determine capabilities of suppliers’ product and service offerings, and relate offerings to stakeholder needs
Determine the right sourcing process considering bidding approach, formal and informal negotiations, and structure 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. 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
Direct the negotiation of highly complex, enterprise-wide, strategic supplier partners
Manage issues & risks and communicate to management. Consult with senior management and project management experts as needed. Facilitate communication between project team and stakeholders
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
Continuous Improvement and Supplier Management
Lead vendor management program execution for portfolio
Develop analytics and insights that drive supplier segmentation planning, key priorities and activities within spend categories
Lead measurement, management and improvement supplier performance against negotiated SLAs and quality metrics as needed
Develop SRM plans with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation
Lead activities such as supplier discussions, QBRs, scorecards and other supplier performance activities in alignment with supplier segmentation strategy
Report on key performance indicators and analytics that improve supplier performance management, compliance, cycle time and process savings
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.
