Senior Sourcing & Category Manager

Senior Sourcing & Category Manager

Location: Tulsa
-TUL, Dallas
-DAL, Houston
-HOUS, Kansas City
-KSCY, Oklahoma City
-OKC

Areas of Interest: Bank Operations

Pay Transparency Salary Range: Not Available

Final date to receive applications: 07/17/2026

Discretionary

For over a century, BOK Financial has grown alongside its clients, offering tailored services and strategies for business, consumer, and wealth clients. Our extensive range of services allows us to compete nationally while our local decision-making and community connections make us good neighbors. Our purposeful diversification ensures resilience and stability, highlighting our expertise and commitment to meeting all your financial needs.

The Senior Sourcing & Category Manager is responsible for developing and executing category strategies, leading strategic sourcing initiatives, and managing supplier relationships to deliver commercial value, risk mitigation, and operational efficiency. This role serves as a key interface between business stakeholders, Contracts, Legal, and Third-Party Risk Management, ensuring alignment to enterprise objectives and governance.

Our culture thrives on integrity, collaboration, and innovation. We put people first by investing in their potential and helping them build careers that matter. Our dedication to continuous learning keeps us at the forefront of industry trends, enabling us to deliver exceptional solutions for our clients. Join us to be part of an energetic, supportive, and visionary team where your skills are celebrated, and your career can thrive.

• Lead highly complex cross-functional efforts, shaping category strategy, conducting RFP’s/RFI’s, building senior leadership alignment and driving favorable outcomes.
• Employ strong knowledge of key hardware and software industry players, competitors, and market dynamics.
• Build relationships with strategic suppliers and industry players and proactively manage and measure supplier performance.
• Lead and support contract lifecycle work across strategic technology SaaS agreements.
• Develop commercial strategy for both new and existing vendors. Lead complex negotiations, including pricing models.

A bachelor’s degree is required, along with 8–12+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, or procurement (an advanced business or supply chain degree preferred), and demonstrated expertise in leading complex sourcing events and negotiations, strong commercial acumen—including pricing models, supplier economics, and contract structures—and experience managing strategic suppliers and enterprise-level stakeholder relationships.

• Experience using or enabling AI-driven procurement tools (e.g, sourcing optimization, intake automation)
• Familiarity with AI-assisted negotiation support tools, or copilots to improve speed and quality of outcomes
• Advanced negotiation skills (complex deal structuring, multi-variable pricing models)
• Strong understanding of supplier economics, cost drivers, and margin structures
• Ability to structure commercial terms (pricing, volume tiers, escalation caps, SLAs)
• Executive-level communication and presentation skills
• Ability to influence without authority across senior stakeholders
• Strong relationship management and conflict resolution capabilities
• Deep expertise in RFx processes and competitive sourcing
• Experience designing sourcing pipelines and governance models

The companies in BOK Financial Corporation Group are equal opportunity employers. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, genetic information or veteran status.