Principal Strategic Sourcing Manager, Services

Principal Strategic Sourcing Manager

As a Principal Strategic Sourcing Manager, you are a critical individual contributor responsible for driving the sourcing strategy and value chain optimization for Intuit's Services categories (e.g., Professional Services, Management Consulting, HR Consulting, Benefits, Workplace, Facilities, Events, etc.). This role requires deep expertise in the services landscape, understanding its impact on business outcomes and total cost of ownership, with a focus on driving business transformation. You will collaborate with senior leaders across Intuit to identify opportunities for operational improvements, cost optimization, and risk mitigation, ensuring best value from third-party investments.

This role demands a strategic thinker, a strong connector, and a highly analytical individual capable of synthesizing insights between third parties, Intuits value chain, and their impact on growth and innovation to drive Intuit's objectives forward. You will develop and execute long and short-term sourcing strategies, with an equal emphasis on identifying, analyzing, and quantifying opportunities, as well as managing RFx processes and leading challenging vendor negotiations.

Responsibilities

Leadership

• 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.

Opportunity Assessment

Strategic Sourcing Process Execution and Project Management

Continuous Improvement and Supplier Management

People Management

Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

Qualifications

Desired skills :

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs. Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is :

Bay Area California, CA : $183,000 - $248,000

Southern California, CA : $160,000 - $216,500