Strategic Sourcing Leader, Professional Services
Core
Lead the Professional Services sourcing team to define category strategies, manage supplier relationships, and oversee commercial agreements for consulting, advisory, and managed services.
Role type
Senior People Manager, Strategic Sourcing Leader
Builds
Strategic advisory relationships, enterprise programmes, and high-volume statements of work for Professional Services
Domain
Technology / Professional Services Procurement
Required skills
Strategic sourcing, category management, people leadership, complex negotiation, supplier relationship management, financial analysis, stakeholder management, AI tool adoption, risk management
Preferred skills
Experience with Big Four firms, managing multidisciplinary service providers, using AI to redesign workflows, leading through ambiguity
Technologies
AI tools for supplier research, proposal analysis, and negotiation preparation
Responsibilities
Lead and develop the sourcing team, set portfolio strategy and roadmap, manage pipeline and capacity, lead critical negotiations, build intake and tiering models, strengthen supplier accountability, partner with Finance/Legal/People, establish performance views, build stakeholder relationships, adopt AI tools (via careerplan.io/jobs/5b334d54-fc7f-4de7-a37f-5c759c79beb6-strategic-sourcing-leader-professional-services-at-openai)
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people management
