Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing- Corporate Services
About The Position
LogicSource is seeking a full-time Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Corporate Services to join its Center of Excellence team. The position leads and manages complex strategic sourcing engagements across Corporate Services categories, ensuring business continuity, cost savings, and strong supplier performance. The role works directly with client stakeholders and reports to the Director, Strategic Sourcing - Corporate Services. The Senior Manager develops and executes sourcing strategies, leads end-to-end RFPs and complex negotiations, evaluates proposals using total cost of ownership (TCO) modeling, and identifies cost-reduction opportunities through value engineering and demand optimization. The role also conducts research and analytics, manages supplier ecosystems and performance, monitors category spend and savings targets, and builds relationships with stakeholders at all organizational levels, including C-suite partners. Travel is less than 15%.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- At least seven years of experience in indirect procurement and strategic sourcing, with deep expertise in Corporate Services.
- 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 that reduce total cost without sacrificing quality.
- Strong knowledge of supplier ecosystems serving Corporate Services categories.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel for analysis and PowerPoint for presentations.
- Detail-oriented, with the ability to deliver on client expectations, influence others, and 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.
- Flexible and adaptable in a changing environment.
- Ability to travel less than 15%.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies across Corporate Services categories, including Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Professional Services, and Travel.
- Engage client stakeholders to identify category priorities and challenges and develop sourcing strategies to 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 customers.
- Research suppliers and monitor changing market trends and supplier capabilities.
- Facilitate communication between client business units and suppliers to support effective category execution and delivery.
- Build and manage 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.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families.
- Employer-funded HSA.
- 401(k) match.
- Healthcare and Dependent Care FSAs.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- AD&D and life insurance.
- Fertility assistance.
- Supplemental benefits for accidents, hospitalization, and critical care.
- Maternity/paternity, FMLA, and military leave support.
- 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
Senior
