1743 - Director, Strategic Sourcing- Corporate Services
About The Position
LogicSource is hiring a full-time Director, Strategic Sourcing – Corporate Services to work on its Center of Excellence team. The Director will lead and manage complex strategic sourcing engagements across corporate services categories, ensuring business continuity, cost savings, delivery, and strong supplier performance. The position engages with client stakeholders and leads sourcing work across categories including Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Professional Services, and Travel. The role owns sourcing strategies and end-to-end RFP events, supplier evaluation and negotiation, savings analysis, supplier ecosystems, and category performance. It also requires maintaining strong relationships across organizations, including C-suite partnerships, and providing high-quality service to internal and external clients. The position requires approximately 15% travel and is based in a flexible, hybrid work environment, with offices in Westport, Connecticut, and Charleston, South Carolina.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 10–15 years of experience in indirect procurement and strategic sourcing, with deep expertise in HR and Benefits.
- Proven experience developing sourcing strategies and leading large-scale sourcing events.
- Strong supplier negotiation background.
- Experience interfacing with clients and/or stakeholders at all organizational levels, especially in a services industry such as professional consulting, BPO, managed services, or outsourcing.
- Expertise in TCO modeling and data-driven decision-making.
- Experience driving change management and building cross-functional consensus.
- Experience identifying and implementing value engineering and specification optimization recommendations to reduce total cost without sacrificing quality.
- Strong knowledge of supplier ecosystems serving Marketing categories.
- Proficiency in MS Office, including Excel for analysis and PowerPoint for presentations.
- Detail-oriented, with the ability to deliver on client expectations, influence others, or escalate as needed.
- Ability to interpret complex data and translate insights into business recommendations.
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to build relationships and gain credibility beyond the defined scope of work.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and commitment to client service.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities with strong attention to detail.
- Flexibility and adaptability in a changing environment.
- Ability to travel approximately 15%.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of sourcing strategies that deliver measurable results for clients across corporate services categories, including Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Professional Services, and Travel.
- Work directly with client stakeholders to identify category priorities and challenges and develop sourcing strategies that address them.
- Own the end-to-end RFP process, including data gathering, RFP development and execution, proposal evaluation, supplier negotiations, presentation of results, and support for client award decisions and supplier/client contracting.
- Lead supplier proposal evaluations using total cost of ownership (TCO) modeling.
- Develop and implement cost-reduction strategies beyond unit-price negotiations, including value engineering and demand optimization.
- Lead research and analytics to validate savings projections and support supplier negotiations.
- Provide high-quality customer service to internal and external clients.
- Research suppliers and changing market trends and capabilities.
- Facilitate communication between client business units and suppliers to support effective category execution and delivery.
- Build and manage best-in-class supplier ecosystems by category and region.
- Review major contracts and serve as a subject matter expert in complex negotiations.
- Monitor and analyze spend, supplier performance, and savings targets at category and subcategory levels.
- Build and maintain relationships at all organizational levels, including C-suite partnerships.
- Perform other duties as necessary and assigned; duties may be modified to meet changing business needs.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families.
- Employer-funded HRA.
- 401(k) match.
- Healthcare and Dependent Care FSAs.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- AD&D and life insurance.
- Fertility assistance.
- Supplemental benefits for expenses related to accidents, hospitalization, or critical care.
- Support for maternity/paternity, FMLA, and military leave.
- Behavioral health services through the medical support insurance plan and mental health support tools.
- Flexible, hybrid work environment.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
