Manager of Global Sourcing, Professional Services Category

News Corp

News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay-tv distribution in Australia.

Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/Disabled/Vets

In the News Corp Global Sourcing Organization, our aim is to unlock value for News Corp to reinvest in what matters most. We do this by bringing speed, efficiency, and security to buying at News Corp and with all business units within. We partner deeply across News Corp's business units to deliver solutions fit for purpose.

As a centralized organization operating in a high complexity environment, we bring one voice to stakeholders, suppliers and vendors to ensure the best outcomes.

Our organization fosters a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement while providing opportunities for ongoing career growth and development. As a Category Support team member, you will partner closely with the Category Leader and key stakeholders to help shape and implement sourcing strategies related to the category services.

This team is responsible for developing and driving holistic category strategies, managing stakeholder relationships, and bringing excellence to News Corp-wide sourcing, supplier, and supplier management. You will collaborate across teams to develop new procurement approaches and solve complex business problems.

In this role, you will promote and support strategic sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units to attract and enable new initiatives to launch and scale rapidly. You understand the importance of creating competitive environments, and have a strong bias for decision‑making rooted in data and analytics. You routinely influence the category management leader on innovative sourcing strategies that create sustainable, long‑term partnerships.

You are a highly effective and influential communicator able to encourage change and can articulate the value proposition of partnering with our sourcing group.

• Play a supportive role in the development and implementation of multi‑year global category plans and/or strategies that drive supplier consolidation and leverage spend across the organization while increasing spend under contract.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders, team members, and leaders respective to category
• Follow structured project management methods and principles to execute complex, long‑term category management and strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Support populating and continuous tracking of Category Performance framework and defining metrics related to it.
• Help prepare materials with the Category Leader for structured negotiations following the Global Sourcing and Procurement Category Management and Strategic Sourcing methodologies.
• Support the Category Leader in starting/running program level initiatives that can create benefits such as improving an existing process, execute actions to increase diversity, etc.
• Support populating category cards detailing overall category strategies, preferred suppliers, and business unit requirements for execution; ensure category health is tracking per strategy/goals/plan.
• Support the development of "should cost" and "total cost of ownership models" for the category; support the strategies & targets set by the Category Management Leader and the Head of Indirect Sourcing.
• When appropriate, build strong partnerships with key budget owners, functional stakeholders, and strategic suppliers.
• Be part of multiple cross‑functional teams to ensure…