Senior Sourcing Manager (IT Procurement)

SUMMARY/JOB PURPOSE:

The Senior Manager will be a Category Manager within the Strategic Sourcing and Procurement (SS&P) department.  This individual will support the Category Lead and be a point of contact from the team for the categories they are assigned and will be responsible for operations of their category and vendor pool.  If applicable, this role may also include the administrative/HR management for direct reports (Sourcing Managers, Associate Manager, and Sourcing Associates).   

SS&P Category Management and Sourcing team is responsible to manage strategic approach to procurement and ensure informed sourcing decisions to overall optimize spend, maximize relationships, minimize risk & enable business objectives.   

SS&P department manages outsourcing leveraging a category-based approach.  Categories are established based on consolidation of like-services and areas of spend spanning Exelixis enterprise from: Discovery, Development, General and Administrative, Information Technology, Commercial, etc.  For each category, there will be Category Manager(s) assigned which reports to the Category Lead.   

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Support and provide thought leadership to category strategy development, optimization and management working with SS&P leadership and the business units.  
• Understand business priorities and challenges by building trusted and collaborative stakeholder relationships, thus, ensuring successful sourcing strategies.  Identify and recommend sourcing opportunities across the business. 
• Support or may lead vendor evaluation activities (RFIs and RFPs) and selection process including facilitation of vendor capability presentations, software demonstrations, bid defense meetings and vendor award notifications.  Contribute to process development and optimization.  
• Support or may lead vendor contracting process in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders, including negotiation of scope of work, budgets, and payment schedules and out of scope management; PO initiation, revision (increases, decreases), and close-out; contract and budget lifecycle. 
• Negotiate contracts involving larger dollar amounts.  
• Identify, negotiate, and develop more complex and sophisticated pricing and contracting options, including annual pricing and rate cards.   
• Collaborate with Strategic Supplier Relationship team(s) or business as appropriate to effectively manage the cost, schedule and performance aspects of major contracts and subcontracts. 
• Support, or may act as SS&P lead on meetings with stakeholders and suppliers, especially in Supplier Relationship Management activities such as regularly scheduled Business Reviews. 

• Contribute to build, maintain, and grow business relationships with current and prospective vendors through honesty, integrity, and trust. 
• If applicable to category, may represent SS&P at Exelixis Project Team m