Strategic Sourcing Leader, Professional Services

The role

You will lead and develop the Professional Services sourcing team and set direction across its portfolio. You will translate business priorities into category strategies and manage a broad portfolio of strategic advisory relationships and enterprise programmes.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the team by setting objectives and providing feedback
• Set the Professional Services portfolio strategy and roadmap
• Manage the team's pipeline and capacity across negotiations and supplier governance
• Personally lead selected critical negotiations and set commercial quality standards
• Build intake, tiering, and preferred-partner models with Procurement Operations
• Strengthen supplier relationships through performance reviews and improvement plans
• Partner with Finance and Accounting on spend visibility and forecasting
• Partner with Legal, People and Extended Workforce to select service models
• Establish a view of portfolio and team performance
• Build trusted senior stakeholder relationships and resolve trade-offs

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive strategic sourcing, procurement or category management experience
• 5+ years of people leadership experience
• Experience leading complex services negotiations
• Understanding of consulting, advisory, managed services and project-based commercial models
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Strong financial and analytical judgement
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and rapid change
• Practical experience using AI to redesign sourcing work

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Strategic Sourcing & Procurement team helps OpenAI scale responsibly and at speed.