Overview
Strategic Sourcing Lead (Professional Services) to own and execute the Professional Services category strategy and sourcing roadmap.
What you'll do
- Own and continuously evolve the Professional Services category strategy and execution roadmap.
- Lead complex sourcing workstreams end to end across strategic advisory relationships and services engagements.
- Run complex negotiations and design commercial structures for services contracting.
- Build scalable category mechanisms such as intake/tiering, preferred-partner models, and approval pathways.
- Strengthen the supplier ecosystem via competitive sourcing, consolidation, governance, and value realization.
- Produce executive-ready reporting on pipeline health, savings, cycle time, supplier performance, and risk.
- Use AI to redesign sourcing workflows while maintaining human judgment and controls.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or category management.
- Significant depth in Professional Services sourcing and category strategy ownership.
- Experience owning professional services sourcing end to end, including contracting and long-term supplier strategy.
- Ability to lead complex, high-stakes services negotiations balancing cost, speed, flexibility, quality, and risk.
- Understanding of commercial/operating dynamics of consulting, advisory, managed services, and project-based work.
- Experience using AI to redesign sourcing workflows and improve speed, insight, decision quality, or stakeholder experience.
- Financial and analytical fluency to turn imperfect data into measurable business outcomes.
Details
- Based in San Francisco, CA.
- Hybrid work model: three days in the office per week.
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