Sr Sourcing Manager

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The Sr. Sourcing Manager serves as a strategic business partner to leaders across the organization, helping identify and execute opportunities to reduce cost, improve supplier performance, mitigate risk, and enhance operational efficiency.

This role goes beyond tactical purchasing and supplier management. The ideal candidate proactively identifies high-value sourcing opportunities, challenges existing assumptions, leads complex negotiations, and helps internal stakeholders make better business decisions while building demand for Procurement by consistently delivering business value. Success in this role requires strong commercial judgment, exceptional stakeholder management, analytical rigor, the ability to balance strategic thinking with practical execution and becoming a trusted advisor to functional leaders.

• Build trusted relationships with leaders across Operations, Marketing, IT, HR, Finance, and Shared Services
• Understand business priorities and proactively identify sourcing opportunities aligned with company goals
• Serve as a thought partner, not merely a purchasing function
• Challenge specifications, demand assumptions, and supplier selection decisions when appropriate

• Develop category strategies for key indirect and operational spend areas
• Analyze spend, supplier fragmentation, and market trends to identify savings opportunities
• Build and maintain a prioritized sourcing pipeline based on enterprise value
• Focus resources on initiatives with meaningful financial or operational impact

• Lead RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs for complex spend categories
• Develop negotiation strategies grounded in market intelligence and cost drivers
• Negotiate pricing, service levels, contract terms, and performance commitments
• Drive measurable savings and value creation
• Develop supplier performance scorecards and governance processes
• Monitor supplier performance, risk, and compliance
• Partner with suppliers to drive continuous improvement and innovation
• Manage renewals and strategic supplier relationships

• Lead cross-functional sourcing projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Influence decisions without direct authority
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly to leaders and build alignment
• Drive execution through ambiguity and change

• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement transformation, supplier…