Strategic Sourcing Manager

You will be the “control tower”, take on a hands-on approach while building and running a large team of buyers and contract negotiators handling high volume, low risk sourcing. You will own playbooks, training, workflows, and SLA performance. Your work enables fast commercial execution so Strategic Sourcing and Legal stay focused on complex deals.

We need someone who has led large buyer teams in technology companies and who is extremely organized, efficient, and able to partner calmly with demanding internal customers.

In this role, you will

• Lead and manage a team of buyers and negotiators focused on quick turn, low risk commercial negotiations
• Serve as the command center for sourcing intake, triage, and prioritization
• Coach buyers and contractors on commercial structures, negotiation frameworks, and best practices
• Own resource allocation & pipeline health across sourcing workstreams
• Ensure full due diligence routing when needed including Legal, Security, Finance, Privacy, and Risk
• Build and enforce negotiation playbooks and commercial guardrails that allow standard deals to move quickly without Legal involvement
• Own intake triage and routing models, ensuring clean escalation paths for complex agreements
• Maintain dashboards & reporting for volume, throughput, quality, and cycle time
• Lead weekly stand-ups, syncs, and stakeholder communications
• Manage and optimize the contingent workforce model including contractor leads and bench coverage to scale efficiently
• Recruit, hire, train, and performance manage contingent staff with a focus on productivity, consistency, and SLA attainment
• Build and maintain dashboards and performance metrics such as cycle time, SLA attainment, resource utilization, and quality
• Maintain extreme organization in workflow sequencing, documentation, and stakeholder communication
• Lead continuous process improvement and automation work to reduce friction and increase throughput
• Partner closely with Strategic Sourcing Leads and cross functional teams to ensure diligence quality, alignment, and compliance
• Partner closely with Legal & Finance on deal velocity and compliance
• Handle select quick-turn negotiations and approvals as needed
• Provide excellent customer service to stakeholders including managing escalations and helping unblock urgent requests
• Conduct quality reviews on executed contracts and reinforce adherence to standards
• Provide routine operational reviews with insights, risks, and action plans

You might thrive in this role if you

Pay Rate : $90-$110 / hour DOE

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. You must be in the office at least 3 days per week.