Senior Manager - Strategic Sourcing - MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Operations)

Western Digital • Fremont, CA

2d • $139,500 - $186,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager of Strategic Sourcing for Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) leads the MRO sourcing function and its team of sourcing professionals. The role develops and executes the MRO sourcing vision, strategy, and plans, aligning with stakeholders to support innovation, agility, and supply reliability. It leads competitive sourcing, supplier selection, commercial negotiations, category management, supplier performance, and contract lifecycle improvements.

The position collaborates with Operations, Legal, business stakeholders, suppliers, and sourcing leadership to assess business needs, optimize value, analyze spend and proposals, benchmark costs, manage supplier relationships, and ensure negotiated pricing and deliverables are reflected in contracts. The role is based at the Fremont Office, with a secondary work location listed at the San Jose Great Oaks Headquarters.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 10 or more years of experience in indirect strategic sourcing with a multinational organization, emphasizing MRO.
• Extensive experience leading sourcing initiatives, including rapid sourcing, targeted negotiations, complex category strategies, supplier relationship management, and outsourcing.
• Contract negotiation, vendor management, and influencing skills.
• Experience and expertise with sourcing and contracting ERP tools such as SAP and/or Oracle.
• Self-motivated, flexible, and creative leadership, with the ability to prioritize and multitask in a fast-paced, demanding environment.
• Skilled negotiator with experience developing and executing complex negotiation strategies.
• Strong leadership presence and the ability to earn respect through sound technical analysis, business judgment, and clear decision-making.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to lead, influence, resolve conflict, and drive decisions among people from varied cultures and disciplines.
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or JD.

Responsibilities

• Hire, train, develop, and lead a team of MRO sourcing professionals.
• Develop and support the vision, strategy, and execution plan for the MRO Sourcing function, aligning with stakeholders on innovation, agility, and supply reliability.
• Conduct RFPs and lead cross-functional teams through preferred-supplier selection using effective scoring criteria and company policies.
• Collaborate with Operations and Legal stakeholders to assess, understand, and prioritize business needs and optimize value from the supply base.
• Analyze MRO services spend, contracts, and proposals, and present recommendations to sourcing and MRO leadership.
• Lead negotiations for commercial procurement agreements, including Master Agreements, Statements of Work, and Change Orders, balancing business deliverables, legal interests, and pricing.
• Analyze total costs; support ROI analysis, price and rate benchmarking; and negotiate favorable terms that leverage purchasing power.
• Research market intelligence to understand cost drivers and market trends.
• Develop, refine, and implement category strategies and tactics to procure technology products and services at the highest value to the company.
• Build and maintain cross-functional stakeholder relationships, serving as the procurement organization’s subject matter expert.
• Monitor internal and external trends, translate business intelligence into actionable opportunities, and develop pipeline projects that contribute to the company’s bottom line.
• Manage supplier relationships with a focus on supply, contracts, and cost.
• Lead quarterly supplier performance business reviews with strategic partners.
• Mediate supplier issues and resolve supplier contract disputes as needed.
• Develop supplier rationalization entitlements for each category.
• Evaluate processes and recommend improvements to standardize contract lifecycle and sourcing processes and systems.
• Ensure negotiated pricing and deliverables are included in contracts, and coordinate comparison of proposals and final contract terms.
• Act as a liaison between Legal and the business.

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Accident insurance
• Disability insurance
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Supplemental life and AD&D
• Legal plan
• Pet insurance
• Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit benefits
• Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• WD Savings 401(k) Plan
• Potential eligibility for incentive bonuses under the Short Term Incentive Plan or Sales Incentive Plan
• Potential eligibility for an annual Long-Term Incentive program, consisting of restricted stock units or cash equivalents
• Potential restricted stock unit awards for eligible new hires

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior