Strategic Sourcing Specialist

The Strategic Sourcing Specialist plays a key role in driving value across a diverse global procurement portfolio by supporting and executing sourcing and contracting activities in close collaboration with cross‑functional and regional stakeholders.

This role contributes to measurable business impact through structured sourcing approaches, including competitive tendering, supplier consolidation, preferred supplier frameworks, tail spend optimization, and effective commercial negotiations.

With a primary focus on services‑based and indirect spend, the Strategic Sourcing Specialist supports strategic RFPs and broader spend optimization initiatives. The position also helps advance procurement maturity by leveraging e‑sourcing tools, strengthening contract management practices, and applying data‑driven insights, automation, and AI‑enabled solutions to enhance efficiency and decision‑making.

• Support and execute sourcing initiatives across a broad global spend portfolio, including strategic RFPs and tail spend optimization.
• Work with global stakeholders across regions and functions to understand business needs, sourcing priorities, and value opportunities.
• Focus mainly on services based and indirect spend categories, including professional services, outsourcing, external workforce, consulting, technology services, and other business services.
• Identify and deliver value creation opportunities, including cost savings, cost avoidance, supplier consolidation, commercial improvements, and increased spend under management.
• Analyze tail spend and fragmented supplier usage to identify consolidation, preferred supplier, and process improvement opportunities.
• Support the development and adoption of preferred supplier strategies to reduce fragmentation, improve leverage, and increase compliance.
• Apply structured sourcing methodologies, including RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, e sourcing events, and competitive negotiations.
• Support stakeholders in defining requirements, evaluation criteria, sourcing strategies, and supplier selection approaches.
• Conduct supplier market analysis and assess supplier proposals, pricing structures, commercial models, risks, and value opportunities.
• Support supplier negotiations and contribute to supplier evaluation and award recommendations with business stakeholders.
• Challenge demand, incumbent renewals, and single source requests where needed to improve competitiveness and value.
• Support sourcing related contract follow up to ensure negotiated commercial terms are properly reflected and aligned with business expectations.
• Use procurement tools effectively, including Coupa, contract repositories, spend analytics, dashboards, AI, and automation tools.
• Track and report sourcing savings, project progress, and procurement performance in alignment with Finance and business targets.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of sourcing practices, templates, governance, processes, and ways of working.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement across global functions and regions.
• Commercial mindset with focus on value creation and financial impact.
• Structured and analytical approach to sourcing, supplier evaluation, and decision making.
• Ability to operate independently while escalating risks, trade offs, and decision points when needed.
• Good negotiation skills with ability to challenge demand constructively.
• Comfortable working across multiple categories without requiring deep category specialization.
• Technology savvy mindset with interest in e sourcing, analytics, automation, AI, and digital procurement tools.
• Results driven, culturally aware, and accountable for delivery across a global stakeholder environment.

• Bachelor or Master degree in Procurement, Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Economics, or related field.
• Good understanding of sourcing methodologies, competitive tendering, supplier selection, negotiation, and procurement best practices.
• Knowledge of e sourcing tools, procurement systems, and contract management principles.
• Strong analytical capability to assess spend data, supplier proposals, market trends, and sourcing scenarios.
• Ability to quantify savings, cost…