Sr. Manager, Strategic Sourcing - Remote

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Job Title

Sr. Manager, Strategic Sourcing - Remote

Requisition Number

R7677 Sr. Manager, Strategic Sourcing - Remote (Open)

Location

California - Home Teleworkers

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Job Information

CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG), a AAA insurer, is one of the leading personal lines property and casualty insurance groups in the United States. Here, every employee shapes our mission. We build innovative, human-centered solutions that help AAA members prevent, prepare for, and recover from life's uncertainties. You will join a collaborative, inclusive culture where your strengths have room to grow and your ideas can drive real impact. Step into a role where you can contribute to our shared success through meaningful work.

We are actively hiring for a Sr. Manager, Strategic Sourcing - Remote!

Your Role:

This role leads and develops a team of seven sourcing professionals while driving category strategies across the full vendor lifecycle in partnership with senior leadership. The scope spans multiple indirect procurement areas, including IT, Claims, Facilities, Professional Services, Marketing, and HR.

You’ll be responsible for building strong stakeholder relationships, ensuring high-quality and timely sourcing support, and actively promoting the value of Procurement across the business. The role also oversees intake, triage, savings, sourcing pipeline, and diversity and sustainability initiatives, while enabling effective collaboration across the enterprise.

Your Work:

• Spend Analysis & Contracts:
• Develops or oversees the development of short, medium and long term Category Spend Strategies focused on not just savings but vendor service optimization, knowledge transfer, brand alignment and various other soft Sourcing objectives.
• Acts as a mentor and leader for contract construction, negotiations, and policy interpretations for subordinates, clients, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Enables and develops expert level negotiation strategies for assigned contracts and categories.
• Leadership:
• Acts as a consultant and mentor for negotiating large, complex, and/or highly visible contracts and facilitates communication and process development between businesses, Legal and Sourcing.
• Establishes and drives client and supplier expectations for seeking win-win negotiations outcomes
• Hires, motivates and retains top talent
• Directs and assures the success of the goals and work of various levels of Sourcing specialists.
• Consults with clients at all levels to identify needs and requirements for changes to supply chain, suppliers, and enterprise supplier relationships;
• Develops and educates client on early engagement and benefit of category spend planning.
• Ensures that continuous improvements cause contract cycle times to improve and/or that the quality of delivered contracts improves over time;
• Seeks opportunities to enhance and/or expand the effectiveness of contracts and/or or the improvement of suppliers supporting the enterprise
• Advocates and champions for and of Sourcing both internally and externally.
• Sourcing Process:
• Works with clients, stakeholders, and suppliers to create documents that adhere to approved sourcing processes and other requirements;
• Conducts research and technical readings to elevate and improve the sourcing process; expert in collaborating and seeking best value solutions from suppliers;
• Determines best financial options as balanced against other demands
• Partners with stakeholders to ensure the needs of the business are sufficiently addressed and articulated; responsible for client satisfaction for deli