Sr Sourcing Manager

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Чем предстоит заниматься

• is key to helping us build on it.
• 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.
• Strategic Business Partnership
• 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
• Category Strategy & Opportunity Identification
• 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
• Strategic Sourcing & Negotiation
• Lead RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs for complex spend categories

Требования

• to the Table:
• + years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement transformation, supplier management, or supply-chain-heavy commercial roles, including complex indirect and operational spend categories
• Proven success leading negotiations, evaluating supplier proposals, and delivering measurable cost savings and business value
• Strong ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders with sound contract, commercial, and b