Senior Manager, Corporate Services Sourcing - DoorDash

About the Team

The DoorDash Global Sourcing team operates across three brands, DoorDash, Deliveroo, and Wolt, and more than 40 markets, as part of the broader Global Procurement, Sourcing, Travel and Supply Chain organization. Its mandate is to build a world class global sourcing capability that captures enterprise synergies through aligned category strategies and delivers measurable value creation beyond savings, including business enablement, risk reduction, and stronger commercial outcomes.

Global Sourcing is organized around three category towers: Technology, Corporate Services, and Marketing. The team focuses on increasing category maturity through disciplined strategy, governance, and supplier management, while harnessing suppliers as a source of innovation, resilience, and competitive advantage. The team is in the middle of a multiyear transformation of its operating model, tooling, and ways of working, and enabling AI in day to day sourcing. A role on this team is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate robust strategic sourcing skills in a dynamic environment, expand both business and procurement acumen, and make an impact in a growing team within a rapidly growing business.

About the Role

Head Corporate Services Sourcing for the DoorDash brand, developing and executing category strategies, establishing preferred suppliers, delivering savings and commercial value to the business, with the overall intent of enabling the business while optimizing across quality, cost, effective risk taking, and speed to execution. You will own a broad and diverse portfolio of indirect subcategories across Corporate Services, representing a sizable and growing spend, and serve as the escalation point on Corporate Services procurement matters for your stakeholders. 

You will lead a team of four, including three direct reports, and will report into the Director, Head of Global Strategic Sourcing on the Global Sourcing team within our Global Procurement organization. The DoorDash brand you support spans the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand markets, and you will work closely with the Corporate Services Sourcing teams for the Deliveroo and Wolt brands to build synergies globally. This role is remote.

The categories in scope across the Corporate Services portfolio include but are not limited to:

• Professional Services (consulting and advisory); Security Services; Facilities Management, Property, and Workplace Services; BPO and Customer Support; Photoshoot production; People/HR and Benefits; MSP and Recruitment; Contingent Workforce; Background checks
• Deliver global synergies by leading specific subcategories globally

Teams and functions you will partner with

As the DoorDash Corporate Services Sourcing Partner, you will partner with a broad set of functions and business lines across the enterprise, including:

• Corporate and G&A functions: Finance and Strategy, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Internal Audit, Legal, People, Security, IT, Real Estate, Analytics, Comms and Policy
• Business and growth lines: Marketing, New Verticals, Merchant, Trust & Support, Money and Payments, Product, Engineering
• Emerging lines of business such as Parcels

You are excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Lead a high performing Corporate Services Sourcing team focused on delivering value to the business
• Own the end to end sourcing lifecycle across a sizable, diverse Corporate Services spend, from data gathering and RFx build through proposal evaluation, supplier negotiations (MSAs/SOWs), award, and contracting
• Build and own multiyear category strategies that raise category maturity and deliver value beyond savings
• Own end to end category management, from category strategy and planning through supplier relationship management and value delivery
• Evaluate suppliers using total cost of ownership (TCO) modeling and drive cost reduction beyond unit price through value engineering, demand optimization, and specification optimization
• Build and manage best in class supplier ecosystems by category and region, monitoring spend, supplier performance, and savings targets at the category and subcategory level, and staying current on market trends and supplier capabilities
• Have a highly visible and collaborative role interfacing with operators and leadership across the business
• Serve as a trusted business partner and the escalation point on complex or high stakes Corporate Services procurement matters
• Partner closely with the Corporate Services Sourcing teams for the Deliveroo and Wolt brands to build global synergies, align on category strategies, and capture enterprise scale across brands
• Bring a customer centric, solution oriented approach to resolving issues and unblocking the business