Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing - Corporate Services & Marketing

You will be responsible for global sourcing of specified categories as well as strategic thought leadership in building the sourcing and procurement function in Elastic. You will thrive in navigating ambiguity, adapt quickly to a changing environment, taking a global view, being data driven and have a passion for optimizing process and structure. You balance critical, long-term thinking about how we scale the function with hands-on delivery to ensure what needs to happen today gets done. We’re looking for people with strong influencing skills who are effective collaborating with multiple teams and building positive relationships with partners.

As the Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager, you and your team will lead global sourcing activities associated with select corporate services and marketing spend categories, including supplier strategy development and coordination of activities to ensure that cost requirements are met. You will be expected to drive projects in all aspects of the sourcing process, from category assessment, cost savings opportunities, vendor due diligence, RFx, contract negotiations, and vendor management. Business services spend categories include but are not limited to Marketing, Events, Sponsorships, Travel, Professional Services, Financial and Legal Services, CAPEX, Benefits, and various Human Resource categories.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Building and improving relationships with key collaborators within the Marketing, HR, Workplaces, Finance, Legal and Sales department(s) to develop sourcing strategies to meet their requirements
• Collaborating with Finance and Planning counterparts to proactively supervise and evaluate strategic sourcing opportunities and help drive planning and budgeting processes
• Performing spend, market, and vendor analytical research, and presenting these findings to senior leaders to help drive decision making including maintenance of a preferred vendor database.
• Reviewing Master Service Agreements, Order Forms, and SOWs with your assigned Contract Manager to ensure Elastic receives phenomenal commercial value and optimizes its legal position within the applicable contract.
• Capturing product and service specifications from business owners for RFx activities and vendor business reviews
• Objectives may include savings, process effectiveness, supplier consolidation & management, risk reduction & management, improved visibility & control of expenditures
• Managing and developing vendor relationships; including as a source of innovation and growth
• Presenting with Business Partners, coworkers and management in a clear, concise and timely manner
• Coaching and mentoring your team to help you facilitate all the activities within your role

What You Bring Along:

• 8 to 12 years meaningful experience working in Sourcing
• Candidates with an MBA from a reputable school are preferred.
• Experience leading and coaching a team of at least 3-6 sourcing and contract management professionals located globally (i.e. India, US, Canada, Europe, etc.).
• Sophisticated contract management skills and the ability to understand and negotiate master service agreements, order forms, SOWs, and various other legal documentation.
• Strong communication, relationship building, influencing, persuasion, negotiation, presentation, conflict resolution and business analysis skills.
• This is a global position and will require some limited travel.
• Be a self-starter with a positive, can-do attitude. Must be willing to work on one’s own initiative and must be focused on achieving goals.

Additional Information:

We're looking to hire team members invested in realizing the goal of making real-time data exploration easy and available to anyone. As a distributed company, we believe that diversity drives our vibe! Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Equity
• Global minimum of 16 weeks of paid in full parental leave (moms & dads)
• Generous vacation time and one week of volunteer time off
• Your age is only a number. It doesn't matter if you're just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.