As a Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, you are an individual contributor who executes sourcing strategy and value delivery for a defined set of Intuit Services categories which may include: Management Consulting Services, Contingent Workforce and Outside Service Providers (OSP), Benefits and HR Services, Outside Services, and Events. This role carries deep category expertise, a total cost of ownership view, and accountability for measurable business outcomes. You partner with Directors and Managers across Intuit to turn spend, supplier, and contract data into cost optimization, operational improvement, and risk mitigation, and you ensure best value from third-party investments.
Candidates bring depth in one or more of these categories. Deep expertise across the full portfolio is not required. You develop and execute short-term sourcing strategies, contribute to long-term category strategy, run RFx processes end to end, and lead vendor negotiations. You apply AI-enabled tools and structured data to reduce touch time and raise the precision of category decisions.
Responsibilities
Leadership
• Execute strategic sourcing initiatives for assigned categories within the Services portfolio.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects that require strategy, planning, and execution of complex initiatives.
• Develop and implement sourcing strategies that support corporate earnings, growth strategy, and business transformation objectives for assigned categories.
• Apply a total cost of ownership mindset, including build, buy, and insource or outsource evaluations.
• Build relationships with and influence Director and VP stakeholders, with visibility to executive audiences.
• Collaborate with procurement teams to drive sourcing efficiency, automation, sourced supplier utilization, risk mitigation, and contract compliance, including category engagement guidelines and worker classification standards.
• Partner with International teams to implement global suppliers and establish local engagement models.
• Bring industry innovation to the team, including advances in technology and AI, process methodology, and supplier alliances.
• Practice a high degree of professional integrity and ethical responsibility in all business activities.
Opportunity Assessment
• Conduct opportunity assessments, including TCO analysis, that combine spend, supplier, category, and contract insight with a clear view of current state.
• Recommend strategic opportunities to Strategic Sourcing leadership, weighing short-term and long-term industry considerations.
• Present data-backed recommendations and options that earn sponsorship from senior stakeholders.
Strategic Sourcing Process Execution and Project Management
• Provide category expertise, identify sources of supply, assess supplier capabilities, and relate offerings to stakeholder needs.
• Apply the structured sourcing process in formal and informal negotiations to resolve conflicts and build consensus.
• Drive project activity across cross-functional teams through clear expectations, decisions, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Define the data needed to meet objectives (spend, contracts, supplier information, stakeholder insights, current state process and tools) and plan its collection.
• Use analysis to solve business problems and surface insights that are not immediately obvious.
• Gather, analyze, and document requirements through interviews, workshops, surveys, document analysis, and workflow analysis.
• Lead RFI, RFQ, and RFP processes from creation through issuance, scorecard-based evaluation, and vendor selection.
• Build consensus on complex, high-impact business decisions.
• Produce documentation to applicable standards so that realized value (savings, avoidance, efficiency) is ready for executive-level presentation.
• Deliver category transformation, innovation, insourcing or outsourcing outcomes, and TCO savings and efficiencies.
Qualifications
Basic qualifications:
• 7+ years of strategic sourcing experience, with a focus on one or more Services categories: Management Consulting, Contingent Workforce and OSP, Benefits and HR Services, Outside Services, or Events.
• Experience with ERP and Source-to-Pay tools.
• Experience developing and presenting business cases.
• Written and verbal communication of quantitative and qualitative information with Directors and VPs.
• Bachelor's degree in Business or other quantitative discipline.
• Experience in contract development, administration, and management.
• Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects with several stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience negotiating with and managing global vendors.
• Experience in value chain optimization and assessments.
• Experience in transformational projects that require change management.
• Solid financial and quantitative modeling.
• Attention to detail and ability to analyze complex data.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
• Availability to support and interact with multiple international business units.
Desired skills:
• Track record of cost reduction and productivity improvement, with the ability to influence change while building strong relationships with internal clients and external vendors.
• Internal or external business consulting experience.
• Depth in more than one of the portfolio categories listed above.
• Experience applying AI and automation to sourcing workflows, data quality, or contracting.
• Knowledge of the global supply base.
• Strong analytical skills; MS Excel proficiency; financial modeling preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication; MS PowerPoint and MS Word proficiency.
• Ability to work independently and to lead and participate in cross-functional teams.
• Awareness of vendor management best practices (strategic alliances, supplier certification).
• Excellent documentation and requirements analysis.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits ). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
The expected base pay range for this position is:
San Diego $120,000 - $162,500
Mountain View, CA $129,000- $174,000
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