Director, Strategic Sourcing

Company: DocuSign, Inc.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 8, 2024

Job Description:

Company OverviewDocusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people's lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign's Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).What you'll doAs the Director, Strategic Sourcing, you are a highly accountable leader who is responsible for developing an extraordinary sourcing program, delivering procurement engagement with key business partners, recruiting and developing great talent, establishing category strategies, and driving spend management initiatives. You will lead a team of sourcing professionals who are passionate about innovating and driving value. You are a strategic problem solver with demonstrated sourcing program transformation, category management, and business relationship building expertise, and someone capable of operating with a high degree of autonomy. You enjoy communicating with impact to influence cross-functional leadership as well as team members.This position is a people manager role reporting to the Sr. Director, Procurement & Sourcing.Responsibilities

• Build, coach, and encourage a team made up of high-performing sourcing professionals supporting all key Docusign supplier spend areas
• Shepherd development and execution of category management plans, sourcing events (e.g. RFPs, RFIs), supplier negotiations, sourcing playbooks, and sourcing intake and pipeline processes and tools
• Collaborate with Procure to Pay Operations and cross-functional partners to deliver a seamless, customer-centric suite of procurement services to Docusign
• Partner with senior business leaders to help navigate complex operations and spend initiatives with significant spend and risk, driving cross-functional cost containment efforts
• Spearhead the development and delivery of analytical reports on savings, metrics, and key performance indicators to monitor progress against objectives and key results
• Strategize and build frameworks and operating models to support efficient, scalable delivery of strategic procurement services to meet the needs of a fast-growing and dynamic technology company
• Develop and continuously improve supplier spend management policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with policies, procedures and control frameworks
• Work with partners to deliver on work-streams such as budget planning and category management activities
• Provide key leadership on supplier risk and performance issues
• Deliver on complex RFIs, RFPs, supplier negotiations, enterprise spend management initiatives, and contract review processes and proceduresWhat you bringBasic
  • 12+ years of increasing strategic procurement/sourcing leadership experience, including expertise building and leading teams of sourcing professionals at mid-to-large companies
  • 10+ years of deep-cycle strategic sourcing experience with technology, complex professional services, marketing, and other indirect spend categories, including negotiating large-scale enterprise technology agreements and managing sourcing engagement with technology senior leadership
  • 7+ years of management experience
  • Experience using procure-to-pay, sourcing, procurement workflow, market intelligence, spend analytics, and contract management software solutionsPreferred
    • MBA, JD, or similar
    • Procurement professional certification, such as CPSM, CIPS, CSP
    • Experience with Oracle or similar P2P systems
    • Experience implementing and using tools such as Scout/Workday
    • Strategic Sourcing, Zip, Globality, or similar procurement intake, orchestration, and eSourcing tools
    • Procurement leadership experience for software companies, with an understanding of how to navigate supplier/customer 360 degree relationship opportunities
    • Passionate about achieving desired outcomes and delivering high-quality results for partners
    • Experience using Tableau or other data visualization tools
    • Ability to lead sophisticated initiatives and collaborate effectively with cross functional partners
    • Enjoys the process of developing and continuously improving engagement and sourcing programs, engagement models, playbooks, sourcing intake/pipelines, and other sourcing procedures and tools
    • Track-record of delivery on difficult, multi-dimensional sourcing initiatives for a broad range of spend categories
    • Excellent communication and presentation skills
    • Outstanding critical thinking, process improvement, and analytical skills with commitment to measuring and monitoring using critical metrics
    • Consistently demonstrate an understanding of organizational priorities, attention to detail, and financial foresight
    • Ability to quickly adjust to changing priorities and make decisions with limited information. Comfortable navigating ambiguity and championing changeWage TransparencyPay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:California: $171,500.00 - $277,025.00 base salaryWashington: $164,800.00 - $242,225.00 base salaryThis role is also eligible for bonus, equity and .States Not Eligible for EmploymentThis position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.Equal Opportunity EmployerIt's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can-do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.#LI-Hybrid
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