# Manager, Sourcing

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: Raleigh, NC
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $104,000.00 - $187,200.00
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

WGU is seeking a strategic and collaborative Manager, Sourcing to help plan, direct, and coordinate the procurement of Academic software and services across the university.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead sourcing, tendering, due diligence, and contract negotiation activities for software, services, and other assigned categories.

- Review planning, forecasting, and trend analysis to anticipate business needs and support sourcing strategies.

- Oversee the development and review of specifications for software, services, and supplies prior to market engagement.

- Guide stakeholders and vendors through sourcing and competitive bidding processes, ensuring thorough evaluation of vendor capabilities, strengths, and gaps.

- Negotiate pricing, terms, and conditions to minimize risk and maximize value for the university.

- Monitor marketplace trends and pricing to ensure competitiveness across assigned categories.

- Manage and develop a team of sourcing specialists, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and cross-functional coordination.

- Support the purchasing process within the Procure-to-Pay lifecycle, including vendor registration, requisition management, and purchase order issuance.

- Drive effective utilization of procurement technologies, including Workday, ServiceNow Procurement and Event Management, and other sourcing tools.

- Contribute to procurement policies, procedures, training materials, instructions, and webinars that promote best practices across the organization.

- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, or a related field.

- 5 years of experience with procurement or purchasing.

- 1 year in a leadership role.

**Core Capabilities**

- Strong negotiation and organizational skills.

- Excellent decision-making and problem-solving abilities.

- Excellent skills in Microsoft Office Suite.

- Ability to learn new technologies and adapt to changing priorities.

- Ability to communicate effectively to improve teamwork, decision-making, and collaboration.

- Ability to work cooperatively across teams and organizational levels to achieve shared objectives.

- Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage risk, and make informed decisions with incomplete information.

- Ability to remain confident under pressure and effectively manage challenging situations.

- Strong outcomes-based orientation with a proven ability to set and achieve goals.

- Ability to foster a sense of belonging, build team morale, and lead cross-functional collaboration.

- Ability to take on new challenges, quickly learn unfamiliar tasks, and share knowledge with others.

**Benefits**

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual

- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual

- 11 paid holidays

- Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- purchasing
- negotiation
- Microsoft Office Suite
- leadership
- communication
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- competitive bidding
- higher education
- Workday
- ServiceNow

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