Indirect Strategic Sourcing Leader - Enterprise Procurement

Job Description

Trucordia is seeking an Indirect Strategic Sourcing Leader, Enterprise Procurement to support the building and scaling of a modern procurement organization that supports enterprise growth, operational excellence, supplier governance, and value creation. This role is responsible for leading sourcing initiatives, developing category strategies, building category playbooks, creating supplier strategies, managing commercial negotiations, and partnering with business stakeholders across the organization across indirect spend categories.  

The successful candidate will contribute to the continued development of Trucordia's procurement operating model by helping create scalable sourcing capabilities, category management disciplines, supplier governance practices, technology-enabled processes, and data-driven decision making. 

Duties and Responsibilities:  

Category Strategy & Ownership  

• Develop category strategies, supplier strategies, multi-year roadmaps, category playbooks, and governance approaches that support enterprise priorities and business growth. 
• Maintain supplier segmentation, renewal visibility, preferred supplier programs, and category governance approaches. 
• Monitor market trends, pricing movements, supplier innovation, risks, and industry developments. 
• Provide category intelligence, benchmarking insights, and strategic recommendations. 
• Translate enterprise business priorities into category-level sourcing and supplier strategies. 

Business Partnership 

• Build trusted relationships across Finance, Legal, IT, Cybersecurity, Facilities, HR, Marketing, Operations and other business functions. 
• Engage stakeholders early to influence sourcing decisions and commercial strategies. 

Supplier and Contract Management 

• Support supplier lifecycle management, performance management, renewal planning, and supplier optimization initiatives. 

Procurement Transformation 

• Support procurement policies, governance, operating model improvements, tools, templates, and sourcing frameworks. 

Technology, Analytics, and AI Enablement 

• Analyze spend, supplier, contract, and category data. 
• Develop executive-ready presentations, reporting, business cases, and recommendations. 
• Utilize Excel, Power BI, AI-enabled tools, and procurement technologies to improve business outcomes. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience, plus 5+ years in Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Category Management, Supplier Management, or Supply Chain. 
• Demonstrated success leading sourcing initiatives and commercial negotiations, with strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills. 
• Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, and the Microsoft Office Suite; Power BI; NetSuite or equivalent ERP; Zip or equivalent procurement workflow platform; and Jira or equivalent project management tool. 
• Comfortable independently analyzing data, building business cases and executive presentations, and translating analytical findings into actionable recommendations for senior leaders. 
• Thrives in fast-paced, high-growth, and evolving environments, with the flexibility and judgment to contribute beyond traditional functional boundaries. 

Nice to have: 

• Experience developing category strategies, playbooks, supplier segmentation models, and sourcing roadmaps. 
• Experience managing indirect spend in insurance, financial services, professional services, technology, or other complex enterprise environments. 
• Skilled in spend and supplier analysis, benchmarking, and business analytics, with a track record of turning findings into decision-support materials for leadership. 
• Experience supporting procurement transformation initiatives and multi-site, acquisition-driven, or high-growth organizations. 
• Familiarity with AI-enabled business tools and analytics platforms. 

Additional Information

Please see our company Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Life Insurance and AD&D
• FSA / HSA
• Accident
• Critical Illness
• Hospital Indemnity
• Supplemental Health Insurance
• EAP
• Pet Insurance
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Flexible PTO
• 401K

Trucordia Insurance Services, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, the “Company”)  is aware of scams involving false offers of employment with the Company. The false offers use fake websites, email addresses, group chats and text messages. The Company does not (a) interview prospective candidates via instant message or group chat; (b) request banking or credit card information during the interview process; or (c) require candidates to purchase products or services or process payments on its behalf as a condition of any employment offer.

Trucordia is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that every employee has the right to work in an environment that is free from all forms of discrimination. It is our policy that all decisions involving any aspect of the employment relationship such as hiring, compensation and training, promotions, transfers, discipline, and termination will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Such decisions will be made without regard to age, ancestry, color, race, national origin, disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, military service, veteran status, citizenship status, religion, creed, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, childbirth, marital status, or any other condition, characteristic or activity protected by law. Discrimination based on any of these factors is contrary to our operating philosophy.  Attention Recruitment Agencies: Trucordia does not accept unsolicited resumes from any agencies that have not signed a mutual service agreement. All unsolicited resumes will be considered property of Trucordia, and we will not be obligated to pay a referral fee. This includes resumes submitted directly to hiring managers without contacting Trucordia's Talent Acquisition Department.