Senior Sourcing Manager-Software Technology

OverviewThe Senior Sourcing Manager will be an integral part of Intuit’s Technology Sourcing Team and will be responsible for driving technology-related sourcing activities across multiple spend categories in an independent contributor role. Areas of sourcing responsibilities will include enterprise-wide software and implementation services. This role will serve as a strategic leader and contact point responsible for building, and managing relationships with key suppliers and internal Intuit business owners. Specifically, this role directly supports Intuit’s Information Technology including large, complex software purchases supporting Intuit employees. This role also requires the development and execution of sourcing strategies, with an equal emphasis placed on strategy and execution including the ability to identify, analyze, and quantify opportunities as well as the ability to manage RFI and RFPs and handle vendor negotiations. Projects will include a mix of both cost savings opportunities and risk mitigation. What you'll bring

• Relevant industry or category experience
• 5-10 years of strategic sourcing or consulting experience (e.g., developing category strategies, running RFI/RFQ/RFP, reverse auctions, interests-based direct negotiations)
• Experience with ERP and Source-to-Pay tools
• Experience in team environments and negotiating with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience developing and/or presenting business cases, category strategy
• Comfort with written and verbal communication of quantitative and qualitative information with executives
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or other quantitative discipline
• Experience in contract development, administration, and/or management
• Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment with several stakeholders
• Experience in negotiating deals with global vendors
• Experience managing global vendor relationships
• Experience in managing transformational projects that require high-level of change management
• Solid financial and/or quantitative modeling
• Attention to detail and ability to analyze complex data
• Availability to directly support and interact with multiple international business units

Desired skills:

• A proven track record of cost reduction and productivity improvements; ability to influence and drive change while building solid relationships with your internal clients and external vendors
• Internal or external business consulting experience highly desired
• Solid understanding of software license agreement legal terms and conditions
• Strong analytical skills; MS Excel proficient; financial modeling preferred
• Strong written and communication skills; MS PowerPoint, MS Word proficient
• Ability to work independently as well as lead and participate in cross functional teams
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment
• Awareness of best practices in vendor management (e.g., strategic alliances, supplier certification, etc.)
• Excellent documentation and requirements analysis

Eligibility requirements:

• Interested candidates must submit a resume/CV online to be considered
• Must be willing to submit to a background investigation

How you will lead

Leadership

• Take ownership and responsibility for proactively leading and managing strategic sourcing initiatives
• Direct, define, and implement sourcing strategies and initiatives to drive the delivery of growth strategy, and business transformation objectives for technology spend categories
• Contribute suggestions and assist management in development of category and business strategies
• Lead and drive complex supplier and contract negotiations
• Proactively build relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrate and practice a high degree of professional integrity and ethical responsibility in all sourcing activities
• Keep abreast of industry innovation and bring ideas that will help the company re-imagine and leap frog ahead resulting in advancements in technologies, process methodologies, etc.

Opportunity Assessment

• Conduct opportunity assessment with the right balance of strategic insights (spend, supplier, category, contract) and current state illustration to drive senior stakeholder engagement
• Evaluate and recommend strategic opportunities/initiatives to Strategic Sourcing leadership utilizing current and emerging business models, assessing short-term and long-term industry and strategic considerations
• Develop an effective approach to present and obtain sponsorship from senior leadership on opportunities, including alternative strategies assessments.
• Conduct opportunity assessment with or without support of Strategic Sourcing Analyst

Strategic Sourcing Process Execution and Project Management

• Provide category expertise and leverage that understanding to determine potential sources of supply, determine capabilities of suppliers’ product and service offerings, and relate offerings to stakeholder needs
• Determine the right sourcing process considering bidding approach, formal and informal negotiations, and structure process to resolve conflicts and build consensus
• Drive project activities across large cross-functional team through communication of expectations, decisions, changes, enforcement of deadlines, and creation and evaluation of deliverables
• Gather, analyze, and document requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis
• Lead and Manage RFI/RFQ/RFPs from start to finish, which includes creation, issuance, and facilitation of the entire process, through vendor evaluations (using scorecards) and vendor selection
• Direct the negotiation of highly complex, enterprise-wide, strategic supplier partners. Drive best value for the organization based on specific project requirements and marketplace conditions.
• Drive consensus across critical business decisions that are complex and high impact to the organization
• Lead projects that drive price reduction, optimized demand, vendor consolidation and process improvement

Continuous Improvement and Supplier Management

• Partner with stakeholders to review ongoing vendor segmentation and identify strategic vendors to be included in vendor management programs
• Perform assigned vendor management activities (business reviews, scorecard reviews, discussions) in alignment with client teams
• Manages supplier performance monitoring and measurement and work with vendor owners on key escalations or remediations
• Identify improvement opportunities with key vendors and focus areas that drive continuous improvement across KPIs and pushes innovation
• Maximize realized value from vendor partnerships by driving third parties to innovate and automate solutions

People Management

• No direct reports