Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager – Deal Desk / Operations

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The scope of the Senior Strategic Sourcing Operations Manager is responsible for developing and executing sourcing overarching scalable sourcing strategies across the company's operational needs. The role demands a combination of analytical skills, strategic thinking, and leadership qualities to optimize the sourcing processes, reduce costs, and increase procurement & sourcing engagement across the company. 

This role requires in-person attendance at least 3-4 days per week in our Dublin, CA office.

AS A SENIOR STRATEGIC SOURCING MANAGER IN OPERATIONS, YOU WILL :

• Achieve a deep understanding of how each of member of the Strategic Sourcing team currently tailors their activities and processes to produce sourcing value for the businesses they support.
• Find opportunities for standardizing current processes and tools to optimize value derived by the team’s activities.
• Develop and improve templates/processes (RFX, contracts, forms, flowcharts, metrics, strategic sourcing plans and knowledge management) resulting in a standard source to pay process.
• Lead all aspects of and scale procurement/sourcing deals process for optimal deal velocity; accessing risk, structure, and value
• Facilitate RFx events and other procurement regular activities (e.g. weekly purchasing reviews) together with the Sourcing Managers.
• Achieve alignment from Strategic Sourcing and Procurement team members on proposed improvements.
• Lead communications within the Strategic Sourcing/Procurement team and to other business partners.
• Improve utilization of Strategic Sourcing tools, primarily Workday Strategic Sourcing, Fair Markit, Zip and other relevant platforms
• Perform to high ethical standards, with strong quality of work mindset and customer focused service delivery model.
  
  
  

OUR IDEAL SENIOR STRATEGIC SOURCING MANAGER WILL HAVE :

• A Bachelors' degree and 8+ years of related sourcing experience in a high growth, dynamic environment
• First-class professional and interpersonal communication skills for collaboration with diverse internal and external resources and groups
• Excellent organization and time management skills to oversee simultaneously occurring projects, tasks, and deadlines
• Expert knowledge of office productivity, word-processing and various other computer-based or online website proposal software
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of RFP process and standard business practices and procedures
• Possess both strategic and tactical sourcing experience
• Ability to articulate category strategies
• Solid judgment and ability to make good decisions
• Comfortable negotiating and networking
• Ability to gather and analyze data and to work with figures
• Ability to work independently
• Can-do mentality
• Expertise in procurement and analytics tools to automate processes and generate significant insights from data
• Ability to deliver substantial and measurable benefits from standardization of a procurement related process
• Experience increasing collaboration among team members together with improving process definition and standardization
  
  
  

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $128,000 - $178,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.
  
  
  

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

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