Sourcing Manager

Job description

About Team

• Our Team, Global Procurement, focuses on providing industry leading Procurement Operations and Strategic Sourcing on a global scale at Rubrik. We are looking to add a Strategic Sourcing manager to support our Engineering, Information Security and IT teams. You'll develop strategies and leverage market intelligence to negotiate software, hosting, hardware, and services agreements for these functions. You'll have experience in best-practice procurement methods, and work to build strong partnerships with internal customers, influence and align roadmaps, and cultivate vendor partnerships. You will report into the Head of Strategic Sourcing and will be accountable for annual savings targets.
• You will work closely with a variety of cross-functional teams including IT, R&D, Engineering, Legal, Finance, Accounting, among others. You are someone who is a self-starter and comfortable working with limited direction while taking full ownership of your domain. You are an effective and passionate problem-solver, who recommends pragmatic alternatives and is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

What You'll Be Doing

• Project manage complex deals and drive the collaboration of all parties in negotiating strategies and executing favorable terms and conditions
• Develop & drive key category strategy and optimization opportunities across Rubrik's Engineering, InfoSec and IT functions
• Prepare RFQs, RFPs, bid documents, analyze and evaluate proposals, and administer the evaluation process
• Provide thought leadership from a procurement/sourcing perspective and work with business partners to develop new and creative strategies
• Manage the commercial aspects of contracts and license agreements to ensure that obligations are met and the process for tracking renewals or replacement of existing agreements is managed and scalable
• Build strategic relationships with external suppliers and internal business partners to drive results and influence business decisions
• Contribute input toward the creation and implementation of programs to assess and promote supplier performance, development and management (e.g., establishing quarterly and annual goals, conducting quarterly business reviews, formal scorecard measures)
• Establish & report out on KPIs that support the procurement team's goals and objectives

Experience You'lI Need

• Excellent negotiation skills and broad procurement category management experience (including Software, Hardware, SaaS, Cloud & Professional Services)
• 7+ years experience in Indirect Sourcing, with strong track record in Technology Sourcing in a highly dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Excellent customer service skills and ability to partner with key stakeholders and build relationships across multi-functional teams
• Experience with supplier report cards and supplier management
• Strong financial and analytical skills, supporting identification of cost savings opportunities and recommendations
• Self-starting, entrepreneurial, scrappy, resourceful, problem-solver with a strong work ethic and integrity
• Working knowledge of Coupa preferred
• Experience in contract negotiation from a legal perspective (i.e. J.D.) a plus!

Working Hours

• Pacific Standard Time, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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