Strategic Sourcing Partner - Technology

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise : people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve.

We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we're committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

Global Financial & Accounting Services (GFAS) is a team within the Finance organization at the foundation and an important part of the operations function. GFAS employs approximately 200 full-time employees (FTEs). The GFAS team is significant (45+ FTEs) and continues to scale up to support the increasing breadth and complexity of global operations for the foundation and its affiliated entities.

As a new integral function of GFAS, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) is building a team that partners with the business to procure competitive vendors, drive negotiations, and align internal contracting requirements. SS&P is both a practice and function. As a practice, SS&P evaluates and selects vendors based on qualitative and measurable success metrics, rather than the simple cost of the product or service. SS&P connects spend analysis, data-driven vendor selection with diversity in mind, and ongoing engagement with vendors to increase purchasing power to deliver value and mitigate risk. As a function, SS&P partners with Contract Services, Finance, Information Security, HR, Legal, Accounting and others to ensure our vendor procurement process is transparent, balances risk and gives time back to business partners to focus on their impactful work in the foundation.

Your Role

Reporting to the Head of Strategic Sourcing of SS&P, the Sourcing Partner – Technology will join a team whose primary responsibilities include strategic sourcing, category and vendor management, ensuring adherence to applicable procurement and foundation policies and processes and general contracting duties.

The ideal candidate partners closely with the Head of Strategic Sourcing to lead complex sourcing initiatives through collaboration with business partners, including Legal. This role manages all aspects of the IT source to contracting process, negotiating rate cards, running RFPs when required, facilitating the vendor selection process and supporting SS&P with the build out of new processes, workflows, and various applications (or tools, templates) used to support the source to pay process.

The ideal candidate has strategic sourcing experience, excellent interpersonal skills, and directly worked with Software, Hardware, and IT Professional Services. They are a self-starter who works independently, communicates effectively, influences others without formal authority, and delivers high-quality work individually and through others. The SS&P team is looking for someone who can get going quickly to manage multiple responsibilities while producing high-quality work.

What You'll Do

Lead the strategic sourcing execution (i.e. RFx, vendor management, stakeholder management) across foundation technology needs

Support the maturity of category sourcing strategy for software, hardware, and IT professional services

Represent SS&P for foundation needs of SW / HW / SaaS / IaaS / PaaS, IT Professional Services

Help set goals and carry out plans aligned with overall SS&P vision

Partner with business owners and collaborators on RFPs, new contracts, and renewals

Collaborate with partners to develop requirements, project plans and implementation plans

Establish and track key performance indicators and present progress to senior management

Lead and facilitate performance conversations with vendors as needed

Educate partners on overall Source to Contract process and value proposition of Sourcing team

Develop adoption strategies for preferred vendor programs

Focus on strategic work while still driving outcomes through a buy-desk and outsource service provider for lower risk, lower complexity items and ensuring approach and outputs are aligned with overall strategy

Role will focus on North America but will also support initiatives globally

Execute on strategic plans to advance short- and long-term SS&P goals

Orchestrate the change management process with internal partners and external vendors

Build partnerships with attorneys and form relationships in a complex environment

Leverage data (ie. Spend, contract, market research) to build consensus or influence key customers

Support contract review by facilitating discussions with vendors and partners (i.e. GCS, Legal, InfoSec)

Manage IT punchout catalog to ensure it improves quick purchase authority along with competitive pricing

Work with team members and finance partners to build upstream pipeline of work and build plans to prioritize, introduce competition where appropriate, and limit last minute urgent requests as much as possible

Your Experience

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and minimum 7+ years of combined IT procurement experience (Sourcing & Procurement experience) with strong negotiating, contracting and category management expertise

Solid understanding of systems like Coupa, D&B (Dun & Bradstreet), Docusign, Concur, Dynamics, etc.

Demonstrable experience managing 'Fast Buy' channels and preferred vendor programs and vendor punchouts, for expediting purchasing for low-risk commodities and vendors

Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment while managing various priorities to meet multiple deadlines

Must exhibit strong service excellence, detail orientation, and excel in problem solving

Tech savvy and has a strong interest and proven success in working with technology (including new software tools, Chat GPT, Co-Pilot, systems implementations)

Experience discovering new vendors and negotiating contracts with established or new vendors across Info Security, SAAS (Software as a Service), and IT professional services.

Demonstrated success in working collaboratively across multiple businesses, functions or work groups

Demonstrated SME (Subject Matter Expert) in IT procurement with experience working with IT, Legal, and Finance to execute & negotiate vendor contracts

Analytical and data focused approach that is able to provide actionable insights gleaned from data

Comfortable using AI tools (ie. ChatGPT, Co-Pilot)

Collaboration mentality; helps reinforce a "we" not a "me" culture

Advanced degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field such as Business, Technology, Economics or Supply Chain preferred but not required

Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

Salary

The salary range for this role is $127,400 to $191,200 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role these locations is $138,900 to $208,300 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate's job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Candidate Accommodations

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status and prior protected activity.

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