Description
Adobe is looking for a Strategic Sourcing Manager - Cloud Providers to lead sourcing projects and partner with internal teams and suppliers to optimize spend across Adobe's indirect categories.
The successful candidate will lead end-to-end commercial strategy for global cloud providers, including complex enterprise agreements, consumption optimization, and long-term capacity planning. They will partner with Engineering, Architecture, and Finance to translate cloud usage patterns into actionable sourcing strategies that reduce total cost of ownership while maintaining performance and resilience.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and executing negotiation strategies for multi-year cloud commitments, marketplace agreements, and emerging cloud-native services
- Utilizing governance mechanisms that improve visibility into cloud spend, usage forecasting, and risk management
- Monitoring market trends across hyperscalers and cloud ecosystem vendors to inform build vs. buy decisions and long-term platform strategy
- Overseeing the process of disseminating and following contract obligations, and instituting a complete strategy to approach renewal
- Developing, issuing, and coordinating RFx activity and leading commercial negotiations to find the best sourcing solution for Adobe
- Ensuring proper risk mitigation through liaising and contributing with Legal
- Reporting progress on a weekly basis, indicating work planning and work in progress
- Driving continuous improvement and organizational change initiatives
The ideal candidate will have:
- Minimum of a bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or similar
- 6-10 years' experience in Strategic Sourcing with an emphasis in cloud software or software as a service
- Deep market knowledge of software contracting trends, licensing models, and business models
- Experience leading teams, formal people leadership preferred
- Familiarity with fiscal planning cycles and ad hoc financial analysis
- Excellent emotional intelligence (EQ) & influence with various partners
- Mastery of MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Familiarity with BI reporting and spend analysis
Adobe offers a competitive salary range of $118,300 - $244,850 annually, depending on location and experience.