Senior Manager, Sourcing

About MOLOCO

Moloco’s goal is to make the digital economy more equitable and profitable by delivering advanced machine learning to companies of all sizes. With Moloco’s machine learning platform for growth and performance, every app publisher and online retailer can now unlock the value of their unique, first-party data for user acquisition, retention, and monetization campaigns. 

Founded in 2013, our advanced machine learning engine powers our product portfolio. Moloco Cloud DSP enables performance marketers to quickly scale user acquisition and achieve greater lifetime value through battle-tested prediction models. Moloco Retail Media Platform enables online retailers and marketplaces to establish their own performance ads business. 

Our technology is best in class; we received the SMARTIES X silver award for Machine Learning and AI, and Moloco was named the Cross-Industry Winner for Google Cloud Customer Awards. 

The company is in hyper-growth mode and we ranked #95 in the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2022. We ranked #91 among Deloitte’s 2021 Fast 500 and have been certified by 91% of the company via Great Places to Work. 

It’s a great time to join this innovative team. Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, London, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.moloco.com

The Impact You'll Be Contributing to Moloco:

It is an exciting time at Moloco!  As the company grows so does the Strategic Sourcing and Procurement organization.  We are looking to hire a Senior Manager Strategic Sourcing, reporting to the Senior Director Strategic Sourcing.  This role requires strong partnership with the business to strategically manage spend across multiple categories. The Senior Manager Strategic Sourcing will develop category-sourcing strategy and lead cross-functional teams to execute the sourcing and supplier management strategy for multiple categories.

This position requires seasoned experience with strategic sourcing methodologies related to indirect procurement categories by performing market and spend analysis and then working with the business to build a category roadmap, perform sourcing activities, leading contract negotiations and award to supplier, and then utilizing scorecards and quarterly business reviews to monitor supplier performance.

 

Here’s what you’ll be working on:

The right candidate must be able to create and review analysis reports, strongly represent the Strategic Sourcing department in company meetings, interact with other departments, effectively lead negotiations and work efficiently handling multiple responsibilities. 

In addition to traditional strategic sourcing responsibilities, the Senior Manager Strategic Sourcing will partner with the Senior Director to build the overall strategic sourcing and procurement organization with a focus on strategy development and efficient, scalable processes and operations.

• Ability to manage preferred supplier relationships, monitoring performance and analyzing category spend
• Ability to connect with business leaders in an effort to define and strategically leverage spending to include proactive focus on major spend initiatives.  
• Lead regular meetings with department leadership focusing on strategic spending and supplier strategies
• Manage and negotiate supplier contracts
• Masterfully lead sourcing initiatives including RFx, QBR, category strategy development and execution
• Develop and implement sourcing programs
• Ability to lead complex, highly visible projects
• Apply a growth mindset to continuously improve and look for opportunities to maximize value
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically
• Develop and execute category strategy
• Strong ability to influence business stakeholders and cross functional partners

 

Here is what you need to succeed:

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in procurement or sourcing related background.  

• 6+ years experien