Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

We are on a journey to elevate the processes for strategic sourcing and supplier management across the entire organization with innovation, speed, and collaboration. We are seeking a seasoned Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager to join our Technology Sourcing Team. You will lead strategic sourcing initiatives across IT and Enterprise technology categories, including software/SaaS, hardware, data center, cloud services, consulting, and telecom. This role is critical in driving supplier strategy, optimizing cost structures, managing supplier risk, and ensuring alignment with corporate technology and operational goals. You will partner closely with Engineering, IT, legal, finance, and business stakeholders to ensure efficient and value-driven procurement practices.

This role will be hybrid, based out of one of the following metro areas: San Francisco, San Ramon, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, or Ottawa, and requires two days/week onsite.  

Your Impact

Category Strategy & Execution

• Develop and implement sourcing strategies for technology spend categories
• Analyze market trends and benchmark pricing to inform negotiation strategies
• Align procurement strategies with broader IT and business objectives

Supplier & Contract Management

• Lead end-to-end RFX processes, negotiations, and vendor selections
• Manage key supplier relationships and performance, ensuring SLAs and KPIs are met
• Negotiate redline, and manage complex contracts, including SaaS, licensing, cloud, data center, managed services, telecom and global logistics agreements

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Act as a strategic advisor to internal partners on procurement best practices and sourcing options
• Partner with legal and other stakeholders to review and execute technology contracts
• Drive cross-functional alignment with Engineering, IT, finance, and security on sourcing initiatives
• Use your leadership and stakeholder management skills to elevate priorities and influence cross-functional and internal team members

Risk & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with company policies, legal requirements, and security standards
• Mitigate vendor risk through robust due diligence and performance monitoring
• Understand how to assess, navigate and adjust to dynamic market conditions

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities for cost savings, innovation, process optimization, and value delivery
• Leverage your strong analytical and problem-solving skills to support sourcing decisions and interpret complex data
• Be an innovator, Idea maker, and change agent for process improvement
• Play a key role in the scoping and implementation of new sourcing tools and technologies

Your Qualifications

You’re someone we want to talk to if the role description and responsibilities above seem exciting to you, you meet most of the qualifications below, and this is not your first rodeo, or your second. We encourage you to apply.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in indirect sourcing, procurement, or category management, with a focus on the technology category
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategic sourcing and category management strategies in technology categories, specifically in software and SaaS, telecommunications, and infrastructure hardware
• Proven negotiation skills and a track record of achieving significant cost savings and supplier value without compromising on quality or service
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage and interpret complex data
• Deep knowledge of category products and concepts to conduct technical discussions with stakeholders and translate requirements in documentation
• Experience in supplier contracting with a solid understanding of standard commercial terms and conditions to mitigate risks and create clear service level agreements
• Leadership and stakeholder management skills with the ability to elevate ambitions and influence cross-functional and internal team members
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to represent Anaplan effectively by interfacing with and influencing experienced business leaders
• Demonstrated experience successfully partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
• Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices
• Self-disciplined, self-starter, diligent, proactive, and detail-oriented
• Thrives in an environment with a rapid pace of change, complexity, and working across matrixed functions, within a fast-paced technology or financial services environment
• Strategic mindset with the ability to make sound business decisions based on data and analytics
• Solid understanding and experience with ERP, contract orchestration, and CLM tools and systems

 This individual contributor role reports to the Director of Strategic Sourcing for the technology category.