Director, Strategic Sourcing

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

As the Director, Strategic Sourcing, you are a highly accountable leader who is responsible for developing an extraordinary sourcing program, delivering procurement engagement with key business partners, recruiting and developing great talent, establishing category strategies, and driving spend management initiatives. You will lead a team of sourcing professionals who are passionate about innovating and driving value. You are a strategic problem solver with demonstrated sourcing program transformation, category management, and business relationship building expertise, and someone capable of operating with a high degree of autonomy. You enjoy communicating with impact to influence cross-functional leadership as well as team members.

 

This position is a people manager role reporting to the Sr. Director, Procurement & Sourcing.

 

Responsibility

• Build, coach, and encourage a team made up of high-performing sourcing professionals supporting all key Docusign supplier spend areas
• Shepherd development and execution of category management plans, sourcing events (e.g. RFPs, RFIs), supplier negotiations, sourcing playbooks, and sourcing intake and pipeline processes and tools
• Collaborate with Procure to Pay Operations and cross-functional partners to deliver a seamless, customer-centric suite of procurement services to Docusign
• Partner with senior business leaders to help navigate complex operations and spend initiatives with significant spend and risk, driving cross-functional cost containment efforts
• Spearhead the development and delivery of analytical reports on savings, metrics, and key performance indicators to monitor progress against objectives and key results
• Strategize and build frameworks and operating models to support efficient, scalable delivery of strategic procurement services to meet the needs of a fast-growing and dynamic technology company
• Develop and continuously improve supplier spend management policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with policies, procedures and control frameworks
• Work with partners to deliver on work-streams such as budget planning and category management activities
• Provide key leadership on supplier risk and performance issues
• Deliver on complex RFIs, RFPs, supplier negotiations, enterprise spend management initiatives, and contract review processes and procedures

Job Designation

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation)

 

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

• 12+ years of increasing strategic procurement/sourcing leadership experience, including expertise building and leading teams of sourcing professionals at mid-to-large companies
• 10+ years of deep-cycle strategic sourcing experience with technology, complex processional services, marketing, and other indirect spend categories, including negotiating large-scale enterprise technology agreements and managing sourcing engagement with technology senior leadership
• 7+ years of management experience
• Experience using procure-to-pay, sourcing, procurement workflow, market intelligence, spend analytics, and contract management software solutions

Preferred

• MBA, JD, or similar
• Procurement professional certification, such as CPSM, CIPS, CSP
• Experience with Oracle or similar P2P systems
• Experience implementing and using tools such as Scout/Workday
• Strategic Sourcing, Zip, Globality, or similar procurement intake, orchestration, and eSourcing tools
• Procurement leadership experience for software compan