Manager, Strategic Sourcing - Business Intelligence

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and every day millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the world’s workforce in ways no other company can. We’re much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology.

Searching for your dream job? At LinkedIn, we strive to help our employees find passion and purpose. Join us in changing the way the world works.

We are looking for a Manager, Strategic Sourcing Business Intelligence to join our team in driving strategy for our data roadmap for dashboards, analytics, and reporting for our organization.  In this role, you will identify key insights through our data to create operational efficiencies. You will partner with our technical teams to ensure data integrity across systems.   

Responsibilities:

• Assess and/or guide the assessment of large datasets to discover meaningful patterns, trends and relationships
• Develop advanced analytics and / or cognitive approaches to generate insights and improve performance
• Run the day-to-day operational activities of the Business Intelligence team and ensure team goals are achieved
• Own your projects by crafting project plans, tracking progress, and communicating project updates to stakeholders and senior leadership
• Build, develop and maintain data models, automated reports, and dashboards that align to strategic performance metrics
• Connect with technical teams to identify data tables and schemas needed for analysis. Strong understanding of ERPs and planning databases will be needed to determine how to prep and blend data from different systems
• Identify and solve process gaps that contribute to poor data quality or long lead times to update our systems
• Drives future strategic direction of reporting and analysis.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience 
• 5+ years of experience in operations, sourcing systems or similar functional experience
• 1+ years of leadership experience 

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA degree
• Experience in analyzing procurement data and driving insights and data-driven decision making
• Experience in building and maintaining CRM systems for a global organization
• Proficient at managing multiple simultaneous, high-impact workstreams
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to communicate with senior management
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, startup environment

Suggested Skills: 

• Strategy
• Project Management 
• Data Analysis and Insights
• Proficiency in SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Databricks or equivalent is preferred

The pay range for this role is $107,000 to $175,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity Statement 

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disa