Manager, Global Strategic Sourcing - Tech
DoorDash
About the Team
The Global Strategic Sourcing team at DoorDash is responsible for aligning effective sourcing and purchasing strategies with long-term business goals. This team conducts the business process to analyze, review, and implement third-party external spend, while ensuring sourcing resources are efficient and focused on important categories or larger company initiatives.
About the Role
The Manager, Global Strategic Sourcing & Category Management will be part of the Global Strategic Sourcing team. This is a new individual contributor role for our team. You will start as a specialist covering the SaaS category under Technology. You will collaborate with leaders and operators across the company to provide cost savings and positively impact free cash flow. Examples of subcategories supported include: SaaS, Hardware, Cloud Infrastructure etc.
You will report into the Senior Manager on our Global Strategic Sourcing team in our Finance organization. You will work hybrid, going onsite to a local DoorDash office in Mexico City.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Lead global sourcing (RFx) projects, negotiate deals (MSAs/SOWs), and manage a sizable spend across a broad range of subcategories.
- Influence, educate and manage internal partners on best practices for sourcing and contracting towards long-term solutions.
- Benchmark and facilitate best practices, analyze and monitor compliance; drive improvements through reporting and recommendations.
- Review and drive execution of contracts with a focus on commercial terms: pricing, payment terms, volume commitments, rebates, etc; liaise with the legal team in the execution of agreements.
We're excited about you because you have…
- 5+ years of experience in a strategic sourcing/category management role for indirect categories with some expertise in Technology
- Successfully developed relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers, preferably at a medium to large startup
- Operated quickly to improve value for priority spend sub categories
- Juggled simultaneous projects with competing timelines and stakeholders, with precision and accuracy
- Collaborated and knowledge shared with both immediate and broader teams
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About DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks.
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