Intuit · 2 hours ago
Principal, Strategic Sourcing Manager – Services
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
10+ years expIntuit is a leading financial software company seeking a Principal Strategic Sourcing Manager to drive sourcing strategy and value chain optimization for their Services categories. The role involves collaborating with senior leaders to identify operational improvements, cost optimization, and risk mitigation, while managing strategic sourcing initiatives and vendor negotiations.
AccountingFinancial ServicesFinTechPaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Take ownership and responsibility for proactively leading and managing strategic sourcing initiatives within Professional Services categories
Lead a portfolio including multiple projects that require strategy, planning, and execution of transformational, complex, and innovative initiatives
Direct, define, and implement sourcing strategies to drive corporate earnings, growth strategy, and business transformation objectives for the category portfolio
Drive a total cost of ownership mindset, including strategically evaluating build/buy/acquire decisions
Connect product strategies with company input goals
Contribute suggestions to assist management in the development of organizational strategy, structure, and operational roadmap
Proactively build relationships with and influence executive stakeholders (Director/VP and above)
Collaborate with procurement teams to ensure sourcing efficiency, automation, sourced supplier utilization, risk mitigation, and contract compliance
Partner with International teams to implement global suppliers and establish local engagement models
Demonstrate and practice a high degree of professional integrity and ethical responsibility in all business activities
Keep abreast of industry innovation and bring ideas that will help the company re-imagine and leapfrog ahead, resulting in advancements in technology and AI, process methodologies, or establishing supplier alliances
Own and drive opportunity assessments, including total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, with the right balance of strategic insights (spend, supplier, category, contract) and representation of current state 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
Provide category expertise and identify potential sources of supply, determine capabilities of suppliers’ product and service offerings, and relate offerings to stakeholder needs
Demonstrate the ability to put a structured sourcing process into action in formal and informal negotiations, and leverage the process to resolve conflicts and build consensus
Drive project activity across large cross-functional team through communication of expectations, decisions, changes, enforcement of deadlines, and creation and evaluation of deliverables
Define data needed to meet objectives and develop an effective plan for gathering it (including spend, contracts, supplier information, stakeholder insights, current state process & tools)
Utilize analysis to solve business problems and draw conclusions and insights that are not immediately obvious
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
Drive consensus across critical business decisions that are complex and high impact to the organization
Create supporting documentation to applicable standards such that the value generated can be included in executive-level presentations
Deliver value and projects that drives transformation of a category, innovation, insourcing/outsourcing, TCO Savings and Efficiencies
Partner with stakeholders to review ongoing vendor segmentation and identify vendors to be included in the VMO program within vendor portfolio
Performs assigned vendor management activities (business reviews, scorecard reviews, discussions) in alignment with the VMO approach, framework, SRM team roles and responsibilities for each vendor
Manages supplier performance monitoring and measurement and works with the vendor owners on any key escalations or remediation
Identify SRM opportunities with key vendors and focus areas that drive continuous improvement across KPIs and pushes innovation
This role is an individual contributor
Qualification
Required
Relevant industry experience
10+ years of strategic sourcing experience, with a strong focus on Professional Services categories
Experience with ERP and Source-to-Pay tools
Experience developing and/or presenting business cases
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 in managing global vendor relationships
Experience in value chain optimization and assessments
Experience in managing transformational projects that require a high-level of change management
Solid financial and/or quantitative modeling
Attention to detail and ability to analyze complex data
Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
Availability to directly support and interact with multiple international business units
Preferred
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
Knowledge of global supply base
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 regarding vendor management (e.g., strategic alliances, supplier certification, etc.)
Excellent documentation and requirements analysis
Benefits
Cash bonus
Equity rewards
Benefits
Company
Intuit
Intuit provides financial software solutions to empower individuals and businesses.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.52BKey Investors
JP Morgan Chase
2025-01-31Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
2023-09-12Post Ipo Debt· $4B
2011-01-19Post Ipo Equity· $6.7M
Leadership Team
Sasan Goodarzi
Chief Executive Officer
Alex Balazs
Chief Technology Officer
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