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Strategic Sourcing Manager

Strategic Sourcing Manager

Abnormal • San Francisco, California, USA
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

About the Role

Abnormal AI is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to join our growing Procurement team. Youll play a pivotal role in building our sourcing functionforge close relationships with stakeholders facilitating vendor engagements and driving smarter proactive purchasing decisions across the business. Youll be deeply embedded in strategic initiatives across teams such as IT R&D & G&A and will help shape the future of sourcing at Abnormal.

This is a highly visible cross-functional role with the opportunity to influence how we scale our vendor strategy deploy modern tools like Coupa Omnea and Sigma and evolve the procurement experience for a fast-growing SaaS business.

What you will do

  • Serve as a strategic business partner to teams such as IT R&D and G&A leading early-stage sourcing conversations aligning procurement strategy to business goals and driving stakeholder engagement from intake to contract execution.
  • Lead and manage end-to-end sourcing initiatives including market analysis vendor evaluation RFPs contract negotiation pricing optimization and renewal planningensuring value speed and compliance in every transaction.
  • Use data-driven insights to shape sourcing strategyleverage BI tools like Sigma to build dashboards track key metrics (e.g. spend under management savings supplier SLAs) and identify opportunities for consolidation savings or improved forecasting.
  • Act as a sourcing generalist flexibly supporting cross-functional needs across multiple spend categories while delivering both tactical execution and strategic influence.
  • Champion procurement systems and toolsact as a functional expert in Coupa (contracts POs) and Omnea (intake management) ensuring adoption efficiency and continuous optimization of workflows.
  • Build and refine scalable sourcing processes bringing best practices from SaaS and high-growth environments to improve intake supplier onboarding stakeholder engagement and contract lifecycle management.
  • Partner with Legal Security IT and Finance to drive risk-aware compliant and seamless vendor engagements; proactively flag bottlenecks and suggest cross-functional process improvements.
  • Establish proactive vendor and renewal management rhythmstrack renewals 90 days in advance engage stakeholders early and recommend negotiation strategies or transitions based on performance and business alignment.
  • Educate and enable employees across the organization on procurement tools sourcing best practices and policieshelping scale a procurement culture that values efficiency accountability and strategic value creation.
  • Bring a builders mentality and continuous improvement mindset always looking for ways to modernize automate and elevate the sourcing experience for the business.

Requirements:

  • 8 years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing or procurement within a high-growth SaaS technology or digital-first environment with a strong track record of influencing vendor strategies across multiple categories.
  • Demonstrated category management experience across IT R&D and G&A including managing complex renewals vendor transitions and business case development.
  • Proven ability to operate as a trusted strategic advisor to business stakeholders with excellent communication and relationship-building skills across cross-functional teams (Legal IT Security Finance).
  • Experience with data-driven sourcing and cost optimization strategies; comfortable using BI tools (e.g. Sigma Looker Tableau) to extract insights drive visibility and influence decision-making.
  • Skilled at leading contract negotiations supplier due diligence and ensuring alignment with legal and compliance standards.
  • Strong process orientation with a builders mindsetable to establish scalable workflows in areas like intake sourcing pipeline visibility and procurement operations.
  • Passion for innovation and continuous improvement; enthusiastic about deploying AI-enabled tools and automation (e.g. Omnea Coupa Glean Sigma) to elevate the procurement experience.
  • Highly organized with the ability to manage competing priorities meet deadlines and operate effectively in a fast-paced evolving environment.
  • Bachelors degree in Business Supply Chain Management Finance Accounting or a related analytical discipline.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Advanced degree (MBA MS in Supply Chain or related field) is a plus.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise procurement tools and ERP platforms particularly Coupa (contracts POs and invoicing) and NetSuite.
  • Experience in working with procurement intake and contract lifecycle management tools such as Omnea Spotdraft Ironclad.
  • Ability to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics across distributed teams influencing decisions at both strategic and operational levels.
  • Familiarity with vendor risk assessment tools (e.g. Drata Descartes) contract compliance monitoring and security requirements in SaaS vendor onboarding.
  • Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets for financial modeling and cost analysis; comfort working with procurement KPIs like spend under management savings realized and cycle time.
  • Strong change management orientationcapable of training and enabling employees on new tools policies and procurement best practices.
  • Demonstrated success building sourcing playbooks intake-to-pay frameworks or vendor management programs from the ground up.

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