Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

Overview

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

Atlassian’s Procurement team is recognized as a competitive differentiator driving results and decisions as a tightly integrated trusted advisor. We drive impact through proactive, strategic business partnership with leaders across the company and are critical drivers of the next horizon for the company.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will report to the Head of Technology Sourcing and Category Management, and join Atlassian's global sourcing team consisting of a highly performing, collaborative group of professionals.

• Identify, obtain agreement, and lead transformational sourcing projects, following a standard strategic sourcing methodology that maximizes Atlassian's value

• Personally lead projects, serving as the primary liaison between Legal, Finance, engineering teams, TPMs and other partners in the end-to-end strategic sourcing process including category analysis, supplier selection, and contract negotiation

• Establish relationships across the teams to ensure active and early participation in supplier related matters

• Provide rigorous analysis of spend data and industry dynamics to Identify and launch sourcing projects

• Identify process improvements to increase efficiencies and maximize spend opportunity

• Contribute to implementation and change management of process improvement projects across Atlassian

• Mentor partners on procurement practices

• Lead the planning and launch of RFIs and RFPs

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing and category management. Possesses extensive knowledge in sourcing software, hardware, and services, specifically focused on managing indirect spending for organizations.

• Experience in sourcing, negotiating, and delivering complex contracts, with an emphasis on technology-related purchases (SaaS, IT, MarTech, FinTech, Benefit, People Tech, Sales Tech, Workplace, and corporate services), including experience working with and influencing IT and business leaders along with supplier executives.

• Along with capabilities with an ability to understand, translate, (and ) refine business cases for successful sourcing / vendor relationships

• Experienced negotiation skills in both financial and business matters, including commercial terms for strategic contracts

• Ability to present strong technical issues, ideas, and recommendations in verbal, written and presentation formats

• Teamwork oriented

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working globally, working with partners, team members, and suppliers

• Expertise across the full lifecycle of strategic sourcing and corporate procurement activities including sourcing strategies, RFP development & analysis, supplier selection, contract negotiations, contract preparation, and review and analysis.

• A clear ability to inspire change, handle conflict, bring together different points of view, make decisions, and achieve OKRs

• Knowledge of legal and technology related contract terms and conditions

• Knowledge of procurement policies and tools.

Qualifications

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $139,500 - $182,125

Zone B: $126,000 - $164,500

Zone C: $116,100 - $151,575

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your loca