Sourcing Specialist, Consultant

Your Role

The Global Business Services team is responsible for the execution of the sourcing process for goods and services, including supporting the business by making effective sourcing decisions and establishing supplier contracts. The Sourcing Specialist Consultant will report to the Director, Sourcing for the IT Stellarus team. In this role you will provide sourcing strategy, advice and objectives to support the operational business initiatives.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a college degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 7 years of prior relevant experience in strategic sourcing/contracting
• Requires a minimum of 5 years negotiating technology agreements (SaaS, data services, managed services/outsourcing, healthcare services) with direct ownership of deals in the multi-million-dollar range
• Requires excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Requires deep knowledge of Sourcing/Supplier Relationship Management area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience
• Requires one to be viewed as a specialist within Sourcing/Supplier Relationship Management discipline

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

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Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Act as a trusted advisor and provide sourcing strategy advice and consultation to best achieve the business strategy and objectives for transactional and operational initiatives.
• Provide guidance to Business partners and seek alignment to influence spend and cost savings through supplier rationalization and driving economies of scale.
• Analyze the supply market to identify best sources for acquisition of goods and services.
• Manage supplier selection and qualification through a competitive bid process for goods and/or services.
• Promote small, disadvantaged, and minority-owned businesses through a supplier diversity program.
• Facilitate supplier risk management, due diligence and on boarding activities.
• Lead end to end contracting for complex technology and product deals (often $5M-$100M+), including MSAs/CSAs, Order Forms, SOWs, Amendments, Change Orders, and negotiation playbooks; drive best value outcomes across price, risk, service levels, and innovation.
• Own negotiation strategy: develop BATNAs, should cost/TCO models, and multi round RFx/auction strategies; run competitive events and down selects with clear decision frameworks.
• Structure commercial models that balance agility and control (e.g., output /outcome based pricing, ramp/elastic capacity, milestone & acceptance, indexed rate cards, usage tiers, EDPs, reservations/commit models for cloud).
• Partner with Legal, Privacy, Security, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and IT to close issues quickly (IP/data rights, privacy & data protection, security schedules, regulatory addenda, BAAs/DPAs, service levels/credits, termination/transition assistance, subcontracting, open source/SBOM, audit/controls).
• Guide stakeholders through intake to signature: ensure complete business requirements, strong SOWs, and adherence to required preapprovals and documentation.
• Reduce cycle time and risk by applying standard templates, clause libraries, and redline best practices; escalate and resolve blockers rapidly.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Act as a trusted advisor and provide sourcing strategy advice and consultation to best achieve the business strategy and objectives for transactional and operational initiatives.
• Provide guidance to Business partners and seek alignment to influence spend and cost savings through supplier rationalization and driving economies of scale.
• Analyze the supply market to identify best sources for acquisition of goods and services.
• Manage supplier selection and qualification through a competitive bid process for goods and/or services.
• Promote small, disadvantaged, and minority-owned businesses through a supplier diversity program.
• Facilitate supplier risk management, due diligence and on boarding activities.
• Lead end to end contracting for complex technology and product deals (often $5M-$100M+), including MSAs/CSAs, Order Forms, SOWs, Amendments, Change Orders, and negotiation playbooks; drive best value outcomes across price, risk, service levels, and innovation.
• Own negotiation strategy: develop BATNAs, should cost/TCO models, and multi round RFx/auction strategies; run competitive events and down selects with clear decision frameworks.
• Structure commercial models that balance agility and control (e.g., output /outcome based pricing, ramp/elastic capacity, milestone & acceptance, indexed rate cards, usage tiers, EDPs, reservations/commit models for cloud).
• Partner with Legal, Privacy, Security, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and IT to close issues quickly (IP/data rights, privacy & data protection, security schedules, regulatory addenda, BAAs/DPAs, service levels/credits, termination/transition assistance, subcontracting, open source/SBOM, audit/controls).
• Guide stakeholders through intake to signature: ensure complete business requirements, strong SOWs, and adherence to required preapprovals and documentation.
• Reduce cycle time and risk by applying standard templates, clause libraries, and redline best practices; escalate and resolve blockers rapidly.