Direct sourcing, Program Lead (Contingent Workforce)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

As a Direct Sourcing Program Lead, you are responsible and accountable for the performance and strategy of our first generation global direct sourcing program for contractors. Your focus will be to support the adoption of direct sourcing by our managers and leaders. This position will report to the Global Contingent Workforce Program Manager and is a great opportunity for a talented individual who has the desire to associate with a fast-growing company in a truly international environment. 

The ideal candidate will possess a strong operations mindset, loves improving processes, and proactively go the extra mile to support and provide direction to our contractor hiring managers and program stakeholders. This person is flexible, has a high level of integrity, with a focus on the end-to-end process, and strong follow-through. In addition, this position requires a detail-oriented person who thrives in a fast-paced, team-oriented, collaborative environment, and executes with excellence.

Your Impact

Specific duties include:

• Develop talent sourcing strategies and processes in collaboration with internal and external partners and stakeholders
• Source, screen and interview contractor candidates
• Develop program strategy roadmaps focused on global expansion, efficiency and continuous improvement
• Build, hire and manage a contractor team of Direct Sourcing recruiters and sourcers (i.e. curators)
• Implement new direct sourcing platform (DSP) and program across the company 
• Oversee integrations between internal and external IT teams
• Prepare and execute change management plans across our MSP, staffing partners, VMS and Palo Alto Networks teams
• Develop and track program and vendors’ SLA/KPIs 
• Manage DSP and staffing agency performance 
• Guide and support hiring managers on their contractor needs 
• Present program health and statistics to program stakeholders and internal leadership
• Support team ad-hoc projects assigned by reporting manager and non-entity global expansion workforce processes 

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of full lifecycle contractor sourcing and recruiting in enterprise or agency environment
• 3+ years of experience in executing people team projects or programs
• 2+ years of experience leading teams
• Experience in implementing sourcing strategies
• Experience with cultural and/or organizational change management and transformation
• Strong ability to influence and build trusted relationships with Palo Alto Leaders and Managers
• Experience with SLA/KPI development
• Proven track record of demonstrating strong domain expertise and good judgment applied to multiple work streams and processes
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Our People team works throughout the organization to enable ... you guessed it: people. We’re one team, driven to one mission statement. Each piece matters, and within the People team, you are focused on enabling our teams to resolve the world’s most challenging cybersecurity threats. 

You will be part of a growing, passionat