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Intuit · 10 hours ago

Senior Sourcing Manager – Technology, Services, and Partnerships

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. The Senior Sourcing Manager will drive global sourcing activities across multiple categories within Intuit’s value chain, focusing on building and managing relationships with key suppliers and internal stakeholders while executing sourcing strategies.

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Responsibilities

Take ownership and responsibility for proactively leading and managing strategic sourcing initiatives
Direct, define, and implement sourcing strategies and initiatives to drive the delivery of growth strategy, and business transformation objectives for responsible categories
Contribute suggestions and assist management in development of category strategy, including operational roadmaps
Develop plans to achieve team’s strategic priorities, goals and objectives planning projects accordingly
Proactively build relationships with and influences internal and external stakeholders
Partner with Global Souring team to implement global suppliers, category strategies to ensure local support
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 leap frog ahead resulting in advancements in technologies, process methodologies or establishing supplier alliances
Conduct opportunity assessment with the right balance of strategic insights (spend, supplier, category, contract) and current state illustration to drive senior stakeholder engagement
Evaluate and recommend strategic opportunities/initiatives to Strategic Sourcing leadership utilizing current and emerging business models, assessing short-term and long-term industry and strategic considerations
Develop an effective approach to present and obtain sponsorship from senior leadership on opportunities, including alternative strategies assessments
Conduct opportunity assessment with or without support of Strategic Sourcing Analyst
Provide category expertise and leverage that understanding to determine potential sources of supply, determine capabilities of suppliers’ product and service offerings, and relate offerings to stakeholder needs
Determine the right sourcing process considering bidding approach, formal and informal negotiations, and structure process to resolve conflicts and build consensus
Drive project activity across large cross-functional team through communication of expectations, decisions, changes, enforcement of deadlines, and creation and evaluation of deliverables
Define data needed to meet objectives and develop an effective plan for gathering it (including spend, contracts, supplier information, stakeholder insights, current state process & tools)
Utilize analysis to solve business problems. Draw conclusions and insights that are not immediately obvious
Gather, analyze, and document requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis
Lead and Manage RFI/RFQ/RFPs from start to finish, which includes creation, issuance, and facilitation of the entire process, through vendor evaluations (using scorecards) and vendor selection
Direct the negotiation of highly complex, enterprise-wide, strategic supplier partners. Drive best value for the organization based specific project requirements and marketplace conditions
Manage issues & risks and communicate to management. Consult with senior management and project management experts as needed. Facilitate communication between project team and stakeholders
Drive consensus across critical business decisions that are complex and high impact to the organization
Create supporting documentation to applicable standards such that the value generated can be included in executive-level presentations
Lead projects that drive price reduction, optimized demand, vendor consolidation and process improvement
Partner with stakeholders to review ongoing vendor segmentation and identify strategic vendors to be included in vendor management programs
Perform assigned vendor management activities (business reviews, scorecard reviews, discussions) in alignment with client teams
Manages supplier performance monitoring and measurement and work with vendor owners on key escalations or remediations
Identify improvement opportunities with key vendors and focus areas that drive continuous improvement across KPIs and pushes innovation
Evaluate vendors for preferred supplier programs by category and drive adoption with stakeholders
Maximize realized value from vendor partnerships by driving third parties to innovate and automate solutions

Qualification

Strategic sourcing experienceVendor negotiationCategory strategy developmentERPSource-to-Pay toolsFinancial modelingData analysisProject managementWritten communicationTeam collaborationAttention to detail

Required

Relevant industry or category experience
5-10 years of strategic sourcing or consulting experience (e.g., developing category strategies, running RFI/RFQ/RFP, reverse auctions, interests-based direct negotiations)
Experience with ERP and Source-to-Pay tools
Experience in team environments and negotiating with internal and external stakeholders
Experience developing and/or presenting business cases, category strategy
Comfort with written and verbal communication of quantitative and qualitative information with executives
Bachelor's degree in Business or other quantitative discipline
Experience in contract development, administration, and/or management
Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment with several stakeholders
Experience in negotiating deals with global vendors
Experience managing global vendor relationships
Experience in managing transformational projects that require high-level of change management
Solid financial and/or quantitative modeling
Attention to detail and ability to analyze complex data
Availability to directly support and interact with multiple international business units

Preferred

A proven track record of cost reduction and productivity improvements; ability to influence and drive change while building solid relationships with your internal clients and external vendors
Internal or external business consulting experience highly desired
Solid understanding of OSP, MSP, Temp Labor, Contract Worker categories
Strong analytical skills; MS Excel proficient; financial modeling preferred
Strong written and communication skills; MS PowerPoint, MS Word proficient
Ability to work independently as well as lead and participate in cross functional teams
Ability to collaborate in a team environment
Awareness of best practices in vendor management (e.g., strategic alliances, supplier certification, etc.)
Excellent documentation and requirements analysis

Benefits

Cash bonus
Equity rewards
Benefits

Company

Intuit provides financial software solutions to empower individuals and businesses.

H1B Sponsorship

Intuit has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (693)
2024 (550)
2023 (586)
2022 (842)
2021 (773)
2020 (514)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$8.52B
Key Investors
JP Morgan Chase
2025-01-31Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
2023-09-12Post Ipo Debt· $4B
2011-01-19Post Ipo Equity· $6.7M

Leadership Team

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Sasan Goodarzi
Chief Executive Officer
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Alex Balazs
Chief Technology Officer
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