Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

Aspen Skiing Company•Denver, CO

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing defines and advances enterprise strategy for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) materials and contracted services, including electrical, HVAC, plumbing, mechanical, facilities maintenance, and other technical trades. The role develops a multi-year category roadmap, aligns demand and service requirements across the business, and shapes the supplier ecosystem, commercial models, and governance to support financial performance, operational resilience, asset reliability, and scalable growth. It is accountable for value realization and measurable, Finance-validated year-over-year savings in a data-driven Source-to-Pay environment, including tools such as Coupa. The position reports to Interim Procurement Leadership. The role leads category strategy, sourcing and contracting, supplier and service-provider relationships, inventory and critical-parts planning, performance and risk frameworks, savings forecasting, and executive reporting. It partners with Operations, Finance, Procurement, and other functional teams to balance cost, service, safety, compliance, sustainability, and operational requirements, and to improve sourcing processes, governance, and tool adoption. This is a regular full-time position. The budgeted salary range is $97,800–$119,700; actual pay depends on budget and experience. Salaried roles are eligible for a bonus. Applications will be accepted until December 1, 2026.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree.
At least 5 years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain.
At least 2 years of experience in people leadership.
Experience leading complex sourcing initiatives and supplier negotiations.
Ability to develop enterprise MRO category strategies and multi-year value roadmaps across diverse operating environments.
Deep understanding of MRO materials and contracted-service markets, including technical trades, labor and service cost drivers, contractor models, asset criticality, inventory models, and service requirements.
Ability to connect MRO strategy to asset reliability, operational continuity, working capital, safety, regulatory compliance, and sustainability.
Advanced commercial, negotiation, contracting, and supplier/service-provider relationship-management capabilities.
Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders.
Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills in complex environments, and ability to align competing priorities.
Ability to translate strategy into execution and consistently deliver measurable, Finance-validated cost savings year over year.
Strong project management and prioritization capabilities.
Results-driven approach with direct accountability for savings targets and broader financial and operational performance.
Ability to use data to inform decisions and measure performance, and synthesize complex information into actionable insights.
Experience with procurement KPIs, savings tracking, and performance metrics.
Ability to drive adoption of standardized processes and governance, with attention to detail and process discipline.
Experience working within procurement or Source-to-Pay systems, such as Coupa.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Occasional ability to lift, push, or pull 25 lbs., individually or with assistance; this is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Own the enterprise MRO category strategy and annually refreshed three- to five-year roadmap, covering category vision, spend segmentation, value levers, capabilities, and implementation.
Establish a fact-based category baseline and segment MRO spend, demand, assets, service requirements, criticality, and supply markets to identify value opportunities.
Shape enterprise demand management, specification and scope standardization, supplier rationalization, and service-delivery models while protecting safety, quality, code compliance, and asset performance.
Define inventory and critical-parts strategy with Operations, Maintenance, Finance, and Inventory teams, including stocking principles, critical-spares segmentation, service levels, replenishment, and working-capital opportunities.
Build and manage a prioritized savings pipeline and annual plan, maintaining Finance-validated baselines, benefits, timing, owners, dependencies, and risk-adjusted forecasts.
Lead end-to-end sourcing for MRO service providers, including market assessment, requirements, prequalification, RFPs, evaluation, due diligence, stakeholder validation, negotiation, award recommendations, and implementation.
Develop commercial strategies and category-specific contracting frameworks that balance total cost, uptime, service levels, workforce capacity, safety, sustainability, regulatory requirements, and operational risk.
Use total cost of ownership, market intelligence, should-cost analysis, labor-rate benchmarking, and scenario analysis to guide sourcing and contracting decisions.
Lead development, negotiation, implementation, renewal, and termination of service agreements; govern contracts throughout their lifecycle, including rates, service levels, response times, warranties, insurance, licensing, safety, compliance, indemnification, change controls, audit rights, and exit provisions.
Design the MRO supplier and service-provider ecosystem, including segmentation, consolidation, geographic and trade coverage, capacity planning, self-perform versus outsource decisions, emergency response, and contingency sources.
Develop executive supplier and service-provider relationships and lead business reviews and joint value plans focused on innovation, reliability, productivity, sustainability, technology, workforce capability, safety, and continuous improvement.
Establish performance and risk frameworks and track service quality, response and resolution, supply continuity, compliance, contract value, operational risk, cost avoidance, working capital, and supplier performance.
Set annual savings targets with Procurement and Finance; govern savings definitions, baselines, validation, and realization; and own a monthly forecast reconciling actual, forecasted, and committed results and explaining variances and value at risk.
Prepare and present recurring executive savings dashboards and periodic performance reviews, covering targets, realized and forecast savings, run rate, pipeline coverage, confidence, initiative status, value at risk, root causes, corrective actions, owners, and leadership decisions needed.
Identify and address value leakage, maverick spend, savings shortfalls, and compliance gaps through documented recovery plans, and ensure adherence to contracts, preferred suppliers, and procurement policies.
Align Operations, Finance, and functional stakeholders; resolve competing cost, service, and operational priorities; and influence decisions with recommendations, tradeoffs, and data-driven insights.
Drive adoption of sourcing processes and tools such as Coupa, ensure sourcing activity has visibility and data integrity, partner with analytics and procurement operations to improve reporting, and support continuous improvement of sourcing processes and governance.
Perform other duties as assigned.