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Strategic Sourcing Lead
Indiana (Remote)
The Strategic Sourcing Lead will provide experienced sourcing and category support across Corporate Services and other indirect spend areas, with the ability to support Professional Services and additional categories as business needs evolve. This role will independently manage sourcing initiatives, supplier negotiations, spend and market analyses, and cross-functional procurement projects. The position is designed to provide flexible capacity and requires an individual who can quickly move into different spend areas, establish structure, engage stakeholders, and drive work through completion. The ideal candidate brings broad indirect procurement experience, strong commercial judgment, and the ability to operate successfully across multiple categories rather than specializing exclusively in a single area.
Job Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Hunter International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity and affirmative action regulations.
Indiana (Remote)
The Strategic Sourcing Lead will provide experienced sourcing and category support across Corporate Services and other indirect spend areas, with the ability to support Professional Services and additional categories as business needs evolve. This role will independently manage sourcing initiatives, supplier negotiations, spend and market analyses, and cross-functional procurement projects. The position is designed to provide flexible capacity and requires an individual who can quickly move into different spend areas, establish structure, engage stakeholders, and drive work through completion. The ideal candidate brings broad indirect procurement experience, strong commercial judgment, and the ability to operate successfully across multiple categories rather than specializing exclusively in a single area.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead sourcing initiatives across Corporate Services and other indirect spend categories.
- Develop sourcing strategies, conduct market assessments, manage RFIs and RFPs, evaluate supplier proposals, and lead negotiations.
- Translate business requirements into practical sourcing and supplier strategies.
- Support category planning, supplier optimization, demand management, and strategic procurement initiatives.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects across different categories and business stakeholders.
- Analyze spend, pricing, supplier proposals, market dynamics, and total cost of ownership.
- Identify savings, cost avoidance, demand-management, and other value opportunities.
- Develop commercial scenarios, supplier comparisons, and fact-based recommendations.
- Structure and negotiate agreements that improve value, accountability, performance, and commercial flexibility.
- Support development of business cases and executive decision materials where required.
- Build effective partnerships with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams, including Finance, Legal, Risk, Technology, and other functions.
- Lead supplier discussions and negotiations with limited day-to-day oversight.
- Communicate procurement recommendations in a clear and practical manner.
- Navigate competing priorities and develop solutions that balance business requirements, value, and risk.
- Provide sourcing and commercial capacity against the team’s highest-priority needs.
- Flex across Corporate Services, Professional Services, and other indirect spend categories as workload and priorities evolve.
- Take ownership of in-flight initiatives and drive them forward with limited ramp-up time.
- Support supplier management, category initiatives, negotiations, analysis, and other priority projects as needed.
Qualifications:
- Four or more years of strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, or related experience.
- Broad indirect procurement experience, preferably spanning multiple categories.
- Demonstrated experience independently leading sourcing initiatives and supplier negotiations.
- Experience evaluating spend, pricing, supplier proposals, and total cost of ownership.
- Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to learn unfamiliar categories and operate effectively with limited direction.
- Experience across multiple indirect areas, such as facilities and workplace services, marketing and communications, financial services, HR and workforce-related services, learning and development, Professional Services, or business and administrative services.
- Category planning, supplier optimization, and demand-management experience.
- Spend analysis, total cost of ownership, and business-case development.
- Experience working with senior business and cross-functional stakeholders.
Hunter International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity and affirmative action regulations.
