Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

Who We Are:

We’re on a mission at Cohesity to drive operating efficiency through both procurement automation and strategic supplier management. With an expanding supply base across global categories of spend, we are focused on optimizing Cohesity’s investment and advancing strategic partnerships with preferred suppliers. 

How You’ll Spend Your Time Here:

This sourcing professional will collaborate with a variety of business unit stakeholders to identify opportunity, develop strategy and execute on core initiatives for categories of spend within our Corporate Service pillar, to include HR, Contingent Workforce, Legal and Finance. It will be important for the individual in this role to create balance between managing daily sourcing activity and delivering on higher priority initiatives. This role will have additional accountability to support post-acquisition integration. 

Core responsibilities will include the following:

Sourcing Acumen:

• Drive development and execution of high impact strategic sourcing projects and initiatives ensuring alignment with the overall priorities and objectives of Cohesity.
• Gather and use data analytics, industry benchmarking and strategic sourcing methodologies to identify sourcing opportunities, develop and execute on sourcing strategies.
• Develop and present annual category sourcing plans complete with savings target, benchmarking, evaluation metrics; and deliver on the same annually.
• Develop and maintain a preferred supply base for assigned categories of spend globally.
• Lead negotiations with suppliers on a variety of contracts, working across functions to ensure maximum value and minimum risk to Cohesity.
• Manage strategic supplier relationships with cross functional/cross business impact covering multiple geographies.
• Contract negotiation - negotiate contractual terms for Cohesity’s commercial benefit while mitigating legal and contractual risk for the company 
• Actively monitor and evaluate savings targets with a focus on contributing to and delivering on category goals quarterly/annually. 

Business Acumen

• Maintain Cohesity training requirements; actively seek opportunity to know more.
• Ensure knowledge of and compliance with Cohesity Sourcing, Procurement and Lega Policies
• Deliver results with a high degree of ethics; ensure work supports Cohesity’s RADIO values.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal communication skills; have a keen ability to navigate and accommodate a variety of personalities to develop effective working partnerships
• Cultivate communication and collaboration within and across organizational boundaries
• Support the Team. If your mindset is, what is good for the team is good for me . . you’ll fit it well at Cohesity.

Stakeholder Focus

• Using spend analytics, develop a stakeholder road map; and engagement plan for assigned categories of spend.
• Serve as a trusted business advisor to business partners, providing premier technical consulting from a sourcing and external benchmark/industry perspective.
• Educate stakeholders on sourcing discipline and demonstrate the value return.
• Identify and develop collaborative partnerships with legal, accounting & finance stakeholders
• Collaborate cross functionally to support the development and implementation of sourcing & procurement processes, driving operational efficiency for Cohesity.
• Develop effective business relationships and advance sourcing’s ability to influence strategic supplier selection and management forward.

We’d love to talk with you if you have many of the following:

• 8+ years relevant strategic sourcing experience in the categories referenced above.
• Experience sourcing in the software and marketing category is preferred.
• Effective time and work-load management; ability to manage daily projects while prioritizing higher return initiatives.
• Demonstrated track record of identifying, developing and executing high impact sourcing strategies 
• Ability to communicate, influence and establish collaborations at all levels in an organization.
• Strong business insight, including good strategy, financial and operational skills.
• Solid project management skills to drive and close multiple complex, high risk projects across business functions and geographies.
• Excellent negotiations skills with the ability to negotiate large volume, high risk deals independently.
• Strong supplier management skills / SRM experience.

We’re a small team with a lot to accomplish. If you thrive in a team environment, have a can-do attitude and are motivated by transformation, we’re looking for you!