Senior Sourcing Specialist

Overview

Own end-to-end strategic sourcing and negotiations for complex, high-value engagements across technology, outsourcing, professional services and corporate functions, based in India and partnering daily with U.S. stakeholders. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports.

What you'll do

• Lead complex sourcing events and negotiations end to end, including RFI, RFP and RFQ design, bid analysis and award recommendation, often for multi-million-dollar engagements.
• Draft and negotiate Statements of Work (SOWs), amendments and commercial terms, partnering with Legal on risk positions.
• Build and execute category strategies and own savings targets across rate reduction, cost avoidance and payment terms.
• Analyze spend, total cost of ownership and market benchmarks to identify and size savings opportunities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders in the U.S. and India, presenting sourcing strategies, business cases and savings outcomes to senior leadership.
• Lead supplier business reviews and manage supplier performance, risk and compliance.
• Strengthen governance across intake, renewal planning, pipeline reporting and procurement policy, using Zip, Workday or similar platforms.
• Prepare reporting dashboards and executive summaries on spend, savings and pipeline for procurement leadership.
• Mentor junior team members and help standardize sourcing playbooks, templates and best practices.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in strategic sourcing or procurement, with proven ownership of complex negotiations.
• Deep experience running RFx events and negotiating contracts for technology, outsourcing and professional services.
• Hands-on experience with sourcing and procurement systems such as Zip, Workday, Ariba, Coupa, or similar tools.
• Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure, process and governance in a global, cross-time-zone model.
• Strong executive communication and influence, with the ability to partner with U.S.-based senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field.

Nice to have

• Tableau or Power BI experience.
• MBA, or CPSM, CIPS or PMP certification.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India (Zillow India office).
• Office position: regularly works at the Zillow India office for approximately 80 to 100 percent of their time each month; must live within a reasonable commuting distance of the office.
• Works with U.S. stakeholders across time zones.