Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

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26WD97463

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26WD97463, Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

Position Overview

The Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, Technology Sourcing is a highly experienced individual contributor responsible for providing deep category expertise, consultative leadership, and strategic sourcing execution across Autodesks global Technology portfolio, with primary focus areas of Software, Infrastructure and Technology Professional Services.

Reporting to the Director, Technology Sourcing, this role operates as a senior category owner, accountable for strategy development, sourcing execution, and supplier governance across multiple services domains.

The Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager serves as a trusted advisor to senior business, Finance, and Legal leaders, translating functional strategies into scalable, commercially sound sourcing solutions that balance speed, flexibility, service quality, and cost effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior Procurement subject matter expert across Technology Sourcing , including Software, Infrastructure and Technology Professional Services

• Own category strategy development across their assigned category

• Develop multi-year category strategies aligned to business objectives, functional roadmaps, and enterprise financial goals

• Maintain strong understanding of service delivery models, supplier operating structures, and commercial benchmarks

• Monitor external market trends across the technology category to inform sourcing strategy

• Lead complex sourcing initiatives and negotiations across Technology suppliers

• Design and implement innovative commercial models, including: Commit to consume SaaS models, Retainer and managed service structures, Rate cards and blended pricing, Performance- or outcome-based pricing models, Demand aggregation and volume-leverage strategies

• Execute global RFPs and supplier evaluations focused on total value, risk, and scalability

• Drive supplier consolidation and preferred supplier frameworks

• Partner with Legal and Finance to structure master agreements and statements of work

• Act as a trusted sourcing advisor to senior leaders across both product and technology divisions, and other corporate functions

• Support proactive engagement and early demand visibility across initiatives and programs

• Translate functional strategies into sourcing priorities and execution roadmaps

• Influence stakeholders to adopt recommended sourcing approaches and governance standards

• Balance functional flexibility with financial discipline and enterprise controls

• Partner closely with Finance, FP&A, Legal, ESG, and Procurement Operations

• Support enterprise cost optimization and spend management initiatives across the technology categories.

• Align sourcing activity to quarterly and annual planning cycles

• Lead resolution of complex sourcing challenges requiring cross-functional coordination

• Manage strategic relationships with key technology suppliers

• In collaboration with Technology Vendor Management, establish and track performance metrics focused on cost efficiency, service quality, and value delivery

• Support supplier governance reviews and continuous improvement initiatives

• Support responsible sourcing, ESG, and sustainability expectations across the supplier ecosystem

• Contribute to development of Technology sourcing playbooks, standards, and best practices

• Support adoption of intake, sourcing, and contract enablement tools

• Drive increased spend under active management across Technology categories

• Share market intelligence and best practices across the Procurement organization

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or commercial leadership

• Demonstrated expertise sourcing complex services categories within a Procurement organization

• Proven experience leading global sourcing initiatives and high-value negotiations

• Strong financial acumen and commercial structuring capability

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority

• Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience sourcing complex Technology Solutions across SaaS, Infrastructure & Professional Services

• Familiarity with services-based operating and delivery models

• Experience with performance- or outcome-based commercial structures

• MBA or advanced degree

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26WD97463, Responsable principal de l'approvisionnement strategique

Apercu du Poste

Le responsable senior de l'approvisionnement strategique, Approvisionnement technologique, est un collaborateur hautement experimente charge de la responsabilite d'apporter une expertise approfondie dans son domaine, d'assurer un leadership consultatif et de mettre en uvre des strategies d'approvisionnement pour l'ensemble du portefeuille technologique mondial d'Autodesk, en se concentrant principalement sur les logiciels, les infrastructures et les services professionnels technologiques.

Sous la responsabilite du directeur de l'approvisionnement technologique, ce poste agit en tant que responsable senior de categorie, charge de l'elaboration de la strategie, de la mise en uvre de l'approvisionnement et de la gouvernance des fournisseurs dans plusieurs domaines de services.

Le responsable senior de lapprovisionnement strategique agit en tant que conseiller de confiance aupres des dirigeants des divisions commerciales, financieres et juridiques, en traduisant les strategies fonctionnelles en solutions dapprovisionnement evolutives et commercialement viables qui concilient rapidite, flexibilite, qualite de service et rentabilite.

Responsabilites

• Agir en tant quexpert senior en approvisionnement pour lensemble de lapprovisionnement technologique, y compris les logiciels, linfrastructure et les services professionnels technologiques

• Assurer lelaboration de la strategie de categorie pour la categorie qui lui est attribuee

• Elaborer des strategies de categorie pluriannuelles alignees sur les objectifs commerciaux, les feuilles de route fonctionnelles et les objectifs financiers de lentreprise

• Maintenir une solide comprehension des modeles de prestation de services, des structures operationnelles des fournisseurs et des references commerciales

• Suivre les tendances du marche externe dans la categorie technologique afin declairer la strategie dapprovisionnement

• Diriger des initiatives dapprovisionnement complexes et mener des negociations avec les fournisseurs de technologies

• Concevoir et mettre en uvre des modeles commerciaux innovants, notamment: des modeles dengagement de consommation de SaaS, des structures de services geres et de forfait, des grilles tarifaires et des tarifications mixtes, des modeles de tarification bases sur la performance ou les resultats, ainsi que des strategies dagregation de la demande et doptimisation des volumes

• Mener des appels doffres mondiaux et des evaluations de fournisseurs axes sur la valeur totale, le risque et levolutivite

• Conduire la consolidation des fournisseurs et la mise en place de cadres de fournisseurs privilegies

• Collaborer avec les services juridiques et financiers pour structurer les contrats-cadres et les cahiers des charges

• Agir en tant que conseiller de confiance en matiere dapprovisionnement aupres des cadres superieurs des divisions Produits et Technologie, ainsi que dautres fonctions de lentreprise

• Soutenir un engagement proactif et une visibilite precoce de la demande a travers les initiatives et les programmes

• Traduire les strategies fonctionnelles en priorites dapprovisionnement et en feuilles de route dexecution

• Influencer les parties prenantes pour quelles adoptent les approches dapprovisionnement et les normes de gouvernance recommandees

• Assurer lequilibre entre la flexibilite fonctionnelle, la discipline financiere et les controles dentreprise

• Travailler en etroite collaboration avec les services Finance, FP&A, Juridique, ESG et Operations dapprovisionnement

• Soutenir les initiatives doptimisation des couts et de gestion des depenses de lentreprise dans toutes les categories technologiques.

• Aligner les activites dapprovisionnement sur les cycles de planification trimestriels et annuels

• Diriger la resolution de defis dapprovisionnement complexes necessitant une coordination interfonctionnelle

• Gerer les relations strategiques avec les principaux fournisseurs technologiques

• En collaboration avec la gestion des fournisseurs technologiques, etablir et suivre des indicateurs de performance axes sur la rentabilite, la qualite de service et la creation de valeur

• Soutenir les examens de gouvernance des fournisseurs et les initiatives damelioration continue

• Soutenir les attentes en matiere dapprovisionnement responsable, dESG et de developpement durable au sein de lecosysteme des fournisseurs

• Contribuer a lelaboration de guides, de normes et de bonnes pratiques en matiere dapprovisionnement technologique

• Soutenir ladoption doutils de gestion des demandes, dapprovisionnement et de mise en uvre des contrats

• Favoriser laugmentation des depenses sous gestion active dans toutes les categories technologiques

• Partager les informations sur le marche et les bonnes pratiques au sein de lorganisation des achats

Qualifications Minimales

• Plus de 10 ans dexperience dans lapprovisionnement strategique, les achats ou la direction commerciale

• Expertise averee dans lapprovisionnement de categories de services complexes au sein dune organisation dachats

• Experience confirmee dans la direction dinitiatives dapprovisionnement mondiales et de negociations a forte valeur ajoutee

• Solide sens des affaires et capacite a structurer des operations commerciales

• Capacite a influencer les parties prenantes de haut niveau sans autorite directe

• Licence en commerce, finance, chaine dapprovisionnement, marketing ou dans un domaine connexe

Qualifications Souhaitees

• Experience dans lapprovisionnement de solutions technologiques complexes dans les domaines du SaaS, de linfrastructure et des services professionnels

• Connaissance des modeles dexploitation et de prestation de services

• Experience des structures commerciales basees sur la performance ou les resultats

• MBA ou diplome de troisieme cycle

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