Sr. Sourcing Specialist II, Marketing Tech and Mobile Software

Key Responsibilities

• Own category strategy and contract negotiations across several categories of spend: Software and SaaS for Marketing Tech and Product.
• Design data-driven sourcing strategies that effectively address stakeholder objectives while balancing cost, speed, quality, and innovation.
• Lead supplier evaluations, negotiations, and contract management (end to end) to ensure best-in-class procurement practices.
• Negotiate complex, global agreements focused on total value, negotiated savings (budgetary and avoidance), and market-reasonable terms.
• Use analytics and automation to enhance visibility and decision speed.
• Prepare RFQs, RFPs, bid documents, analyze and evaluate proposals, and administer the evaluation process.
• Serve as a trusted commercial advisor to senior leaders across Technology, Product, and Marketing (MarTech).
• Align sourcing strategies to enterprise goals for growth and margin.
• Troubleshoot and resolve process issues impacting internal stakeholders.
• Define and implement process improvements that increase employee experiences, reduce cycle time and deliver efficiency gains and outsized impact, while ensuring compliance with policies and mitigating supplier risk.
• Manage and optimize strategic supplier relationships to drive innovation and accountability.
• Stay abreast of category developments and provide thought leadership from a procurement/sourcing perspective with business partners to develop new and creative strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 6+ years of progressive strategic sourcing or commercial leadership experience leading Software and SaaS for Marketing Tech and Product spend categories.
• Strong negotiation experience (Master Agreements, Statements of Work, Change Orders, etc.) and demonstrated ability to work with suppliers.
• Demonstrated success in large-scale enterprise initiatives and expertise in strategic sourcing at a global scale and within a fast-paced, dynamic organization.
• Outstanding ability to collaborate with business partners and teams in defining and implementing category strategies at scale.
• Strong financial acumen and complex negotiation experience.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder influencing skills.