Strategic Sourcing Manager

The Strategic Sourcing Manager - Vegetation Management role is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies that align with the goals of the Vegetation Management portfolio across all business lines and broader enterprise objectives. This position leads strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier governance to drive performance, cost savings, sustainability, and supplier diversity. The role works closely with internal stakeholders to ensure sourcing activities meet operational needs and capital projects while identifying opportunities for process improvements, standardization, and increased value. This is a highly collaborative role that plays a key part in strengthening sourcing outcomes and enhancing the client experience within the portfolio.

Role Scope:

- This is a people leadership role, managing a team of 4–5 individuals focused on category management.

- The role emphasizes enterprise procurement of construction services (not materials) supporting largescale capital programs ($3B–$4B).

- Ideal backgrounds include strategic sourcing experience in one or more of the following areas:

*Capital projects

*Facilities

*Real estate

*Construction procurement

Responsibilities

• Establish a high-performance team to develop strategic portfolio and category plans to generate cost savings, deliver service excellence, optimizes diversity spending and total cost of ownership for key lines of business.
• Ensures the overall governance of the contract approval process from contract creation through contract award.
• Oversees contract spend across multiple spend categories
• Develops short and long term strategies for all spend categories within portfolio
• Leads complex cross-functional teams in the execution of strategic sourcing initiatives
• Manages spend analysis, needs assessment, benchmarking and business case development
• Leads development and execution of negotiation strategies
• Monitors and maximizes customer satisfaction using standardized client service level agreements
• Manages continuous improvement-based relationships that deliver mutually beneficial results for client and its suppliers
• Establishes service level agreements to hold suppliers accountable for performance
• Approves purchase orders and contracts from $500,000 to $10 million
• Directly supervises Sourcing Supervisors, Category Leaders and Sourcing Specialists.
• Develop work processes and procedures aligning to organizational requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree or equivalent experience required
• 8 years of total sourcing or related industry experience; some positions may require technical/category experience

Desired Qualifications

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree
• Strategic Sourcing experience, Project Management experience, Utility industry experience
• 10 years of total sourcing experience or related industry experience
• 5 years of supervisor experience
• SAP/SRM proficiency
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Ability to identify and resolve problems and implementation barriers
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills