# Manager of Strategic Sourcing

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Foster City, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129,200.00 to $206,700.00 USD per year
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Manager of Strategic Sourcing leads by example, and through partnership, to drive competitive advantage and value for Visa Inc. As a Sourcing Manager, you are accountable for developing negotiation strategies to deliver sustainable results across certain Marketing Categories by identifying new opportunities for value and process improvement.

Responsibilities:

- Engages and establishes business partnerships with cross functional leadership across Visa to collaborate, influence, and drive sourcing strategies

- Manages complex sourcing strategies, scope requirements, Business Partnerships, and navigates complexity within a large global matrixed organization

- Leads the supplier selection and negotiation process. Acts as primary liaison to Legal to negotiate contractual terms in partnership with business owners.

- Collaborates with legal and other company departments and functional stakeholders to analyze risks and develop language to minimize exposure

- Leads highly complex sourcing events (E-Auctions, RFx, etc) and provide final analysis on value achieved to finance business partners

- Creates a shared vision by embedding and integrating the role of strategic sourcing into various parts of the business

- Provides high level guidance on the overall continuous strategic sourcing process from needs identification, through supplier performance management across multiple media agencies

- Performs and organizes market analysis, benchmark analysis, and financial analysis that is illustrated in a storytelling format to drive insights and decision making

- Is a champion for change that can act decisively to drive decisions, while demonstrating agility to support the evolution of business needs

- Communicates effectively and frequently, listens carefully, and actively seeks and values the perspectives of others

- Develops and manages category wide SRM plans with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation

- Supports the implementation of Global Sourcing policies and procedures.

This role is a hybrid position to be located in our Foster City, CA office location. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications:

- 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

## Skills

### Required
- strategic sourcing
- negotiation
- contract management
- market analysis
- financial analysis

### Nice to have
- marketing categories
- agency and production marketplace
- marketing math/measurement
- contract and agreement negotiation
- category strategies

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