Purchasing Lead – Strategic Sourcing (Marketing & IT Spend)

hiring a Purchasing Lead for a growing digital marketing company in the automotive retail space. You'll own end-to-end strategic sourcing for digital marketing, advertising, technology and general business spend, and present sourcing strategies to VPs and above.

What you'll do:

• Lead sourcing for indirect spend categories: advertising, media, digital, PR, market research, software, consulting and staff augmentation
• Run competitive bid events, recommend suppliers and make sourcing awards
• Negotiate contracts and purchase order terms with Legal to secure favorable terms
• Build total cost of ownership and financial analyses; document all cost savings and cost avoidance
• Lead supplier risk assessments (financial, legal, security and privacy) with the Security and Privacy teams, including onsite supplier reviews
• Set benchmarks, track market conditions and improve sourcing policies, procedures and training
• Review single-source requests and track invoices against approved POs
• Use contract management tools (Gatekeeper) and ERP (NetSuite), and use AI tools to work faster and more accurately

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field
• 5+ years of strategic sourcing for marketing and IT spend
• 5+ years of contract negotiation
• 4+ years in digital media, advertising and marketing
• 4+ years in IT: software, consulting or staff augmentation
• 4+ years building strategies and leading initiatives
• ERP and contract management system experience (Gatekeeper, NetSuite)
• Comfortable using AI tools, with a good sense of their limits
• Able to present to and build credibility with executives
• Strong Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Nice to have: MBA or finance degree; experience building a sourcing method from scratch.