Strategic Sourcing Partner - Technology

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The vision of Global Financial & Accounting Services (GFAS) is to provide innovative and scalable global business solutions in accounting, tax, payroll, treasury, sourcing, procurement and financial operations while safeguarding the reputation of the foundation and our related entities, with the highest standards of integrity and operational excellence.

GFAS is a team within the Finance organization at the foundation and an important part of the operations function. Operations supports and enables the six program divisions to make investments and to run effectively and efficiently. As a function, Finance employs approximately 200 full-time employees (FTEs). The GFAS team is significant (45+ FTEs) and continues to scale up to support the increasing breadth and complexity of global operations for the foundation and its affiliated entities.

As a new integral function of GFAS, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) is building a team that partners with the business to procure competitive vendors, drive negotiations, and align internal contracting requirements. SS&P is both a practice and function.

As a practice, SS&P is the evaluation and selection of vendors based on qualitative and measurable success metrics, rather than the simple cost of the product or service. SS&P connects spend analysis, data-driven vendor selection with diversity in mind, and ongoing engagement with vendors to increase purchasing power to deliver value and mitigate risk.

As a function, SS&P is a new business-enabling team who partners with Contract Services, Finance, Information Security, HR, Legal, Accounting and others to ensure our vendor procurement process is transparent, balances risk and gives time back to business partners to focus on their impactful work in the foundation.

Your Role

Reporting to the Head of Strategic Sourcing of SS&P, the Strategic Sourcing Partner - Technology will join a team whose primary responsibilities include strategic sourcing, category and vendor management, ensuring adherence to applicable procurement and foundation policies and processes and general contracting duties.

The ideal candidate. You will partner closely with the Head of Strategic Sourcing to lead complex sourcing initiatives through collaboration with business partners, including Legal. This role manages all aspects of the IT source to contracting process, negotiating rate cards, running RFPs (Request for Proposal) when required, facilitating the vendor selection process & supporting SS&P with the build out of new processes, workflows, and various applications (or tools, templates) used to support the source to pay process.

The ideal candidate has strategic sourcing experience, excellent interpersonal skills, and will have directly worked with Software, Hardware, and IT Professional Services. They are also a self-starter who works independently, communicates effectively, and has the ability to influence others without needing formal authority. They are passionate about delivering high-quality work individually and through others. The SS&P team is looking for someone who can get going quickly to manage multiple responsibilities while producing high-quality work.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the strategic sourcing execution (i.e. RFx, vendor management, stakeholders management etc.) across foundation technology needs
• Support the maturity of category sourcing strategy for software, hardware, and IT professional services
• Represent SS&P for foundation needs of SW/HW/SaaS/IaaS/PaaS, IT Professional Services
• Help set goals and carry out plans aligned with overall SS&P vision
• Partner with business owners and collaborators on RFPs, new contracts, and renewals
• Collaborate with partners to develop requirements, project plans and implementation plans
• Establish and track key performance indicators and present progress to senior manag