OVERVIEW

The Group Manager of Strategic Sourcing is a leadership role responsible for overseeing a team of Strategic Sourcing and Category Managers and driving the sourcing and value chain optimization strategies for all marketing-related spend categories. This role collaborates with senior leaders across Intuit’s Marketing and Communications ecosystem responsible for managing ~$2B+ in annual spend across media, digital, social, creative, production, print, sponsorships, pr and partners. The Group Manager will bring together multiple teams across Intuit to identify opportunities to drive operational improvements, cost optimization, risk mitigation, and ensure best value from 3rd parties and investments. This role demands a strong understanding of both the marketing landscape, impact on business outcomes and total cost of ownership, with a focus on driving business transformation across marketing teams. The Group Manager of Strategic Sourcing is pivotal to the success of the company’s growth, operational excellence and acceleration. This role demands a strategic thinker, business partner, strong connector with strong analytical skills, capable of connecting the dots between 3rd parties, Intuit’s value chain and impact on growth & innovation that will drive Intuit’s marketing objectives forward.
This role requires leading a small team including contingent workers to develop and execute long and short-term sourcing strategies, execute operations with an equal emphasis placed on the ability to identify, analyze, and quantify opportunities as well as the ability to manage RFI, RFPs and handle challenging vendor negotiations.
This role requires leading a small team to develop and execute long and short-term sourcing strategies, with an equal emphasis placed on the ability to identify, analyze, and quantify opportunities as well as the ability to manage RFI, RFPs and handle challenging vendor negotiations.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Relevant industry experience
• 10+ years of marketing-related strategic sourcing experience
• Experience with Media, Data and AI
• Experience with ERP and Source-to-Pay tools
• Experience developing and/or presenting business cases
• Comfort with written and verbal communication of quantitative and qualitative information with executives
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or other quantitative discipline
• Experience in contract development, administration, and/or management
• Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment with several stakeholders
• Experience in negotiating deals with global vendors
• Experience in managing global vendor relationships
• Experience in value chain optimization and assessments
• Experience in managing transformational projects that require high-level of change management
• Solid financial and/or quantitative modeling
• Attention to detail and ability to analyze complex data
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
• Availability to directly support and interact with multiple international business unitsDESIRED SKILLS:
• A proven track record of cost reduction and productivity improvements; ability to influence and drive change while building solid relationships with your internal clients and external vendors
• Internal or external business consulting experience highly desired
• Knowledge of global supply base
• Strong analytical skills; MS Excel proficient; financial modeling preferred
• Strong written and communication skills; MS PowerPoint, MS Word proficient
• Ability to work independently as well as lead and participate in cross functional teams
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment
• Awareness of best practices regarding vendor management (e.g., strategic alliances, supplier certification, etc.)
• Excellent documentation and requirements analysisELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
• Interested candidates must submit a resume/CV online to be considered
• Must be willing to submit to a background investigation

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