Sourcing Consultant

About the role

Lead Sourcing Consultant supporting Marketing and Public Affairs technology sourcing initiatives. Hybrid role based in Charlotte, NC (28262). Duration: 6 months with potential for extension. Start date: ASAP.

Responsibilities

• Lead Sourcing Strategy & Category Management
  • Lead end-to-end sourcing activities for complex, high-risk, and strategic Marketing and Public Affairs engagements across MarTech, AdTech, digital media, creative services, communications, research, events, sponsorships, and technology-enabled services.
  • Evaluate MarTech ecosystems, including enterprise marketing clouds, customer data platforms (CDPs), customer engagement and journey orchestration, marketing analytics, digital asset management, personalization, and generative AI marketing tools.
  • Lead MarTech stack assessment and rationalization to identify overlapping capabilities, underutilized licenses, consolidation opportunities, and cost savings.
  • Review expiring agreements and lead renewals or competitive sourcing events, identifying opportunities for supplier consolidation, service improvements, cost reduction, and value creation.
• Contract Negotiation & Commercial Management
  • Lead supplier negotiations, including sourcing and negotiation strategies, vendor communications, proposal evaluations, and award recommendations.
  • Negotiate SaaS and consumption-based commercial models, including usage-based, monthly-active-user, message-volume, and credit-based pricing, as well as true-ups, renewal caps, service credits, and professional services terms.
  • Negotiate technology and AI-related provisions covering AI usage rights, company/customer data use and model training, transparency, explainability, and responsible AI requirements.
  • Negotiate commercial, legal, operational, governance, and risk terms, including data processing agreements, data residency, subprocessors, security requirements, exit provisions, and data portability.
• Stakeholder & Supplier Management
  • Partner with business stakeholders, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Technology, Finance, and other cross-functional teams to deliver sourcing initiatives.
  • Manage supplier relationships and ensure compliance with sourcing policies, procedures, and requirements.
  • Analyze moderately complex sourcing challenges and develop recommendations based on financial, operational, contractual, and risk considerations.
  • Contribute to large-scale sourcing planning and strategic initiatives while tracking deliverables, negotiations, contract milestones, and supplier performance.

Qualifications

Required:

• 4+ years of Sourcing experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work or consulting experience, training, military experience, or education.
• Experience managing sourcing initiatives, supplier negotiations, and contract lifecycle activities.
• Experience developing and executing sourcing or category strategies.
• Strong understanding of sourcing processes, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Experience working with technology suppliers, SaaS providers, or technology-enabled services.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred:

• Experience with Marketing Technology (MarTech) or Advertising Technology (AdTech) sourcing.
• Experience sourcing enterprise marketing platforms, CDPs, customer engagement, marketing analytics, digital asset management, or personalization technologies.
• Experience negotiating SaaS, consumption-based, or usage-based pricing models and complex commercial terms.
• Experience with AI/generative AI technology contracts, including data-use and model-training provisions.
• Knowledge of data privacy, data residency, information security, subprocessors, and data processing agreements.

Skills

• Analytical
• Negotiation
• Communication
• Stakeholder management

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Paid parking/public transportation
• Paid time off
• Paid sick and safe time