Sr Sourcing Lead
At a glance
Senior Recruiting & Talent Acquisition role at Citizens Financial Group. Johnston · full-time · $123,000–$161,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build sourcing plans for the assigned category that reduce costs while improving quality and service
- Review category spending and decide which purchases need a procurement action plan
- Bring cross-functional teams through competitive bids and complex contract negotiations
- Use spend and market data to spot savings opportunities and recommend projects with business impact
- Advise business partners on specifications, demand, and sourcing choices for products and services
What you bring
- At least four years in progressively responsible category management, vendor management, and strategic sourcing work
- A track record leading complex negotiations and sourcing programs across an enterprise
- Strong commercial judgment, financial modeling ability, and skill turning analysis into practical recommendations
- Clear executive communication and experience building agreement across functions and stakeholders
Who this fits
This senior role suits someone comfortable advising business leaders and managing complex sourcing work for real estate, facilities, and retail network categories. The schedule is forty hours per week, Monday through Friday. Financial-services experience and facilities or construction sourcing are preferred, as are the listed certifications or an MBA.
From the employer
Citizens has recently transformed the sourcing experience to the business. In the role as a Senior Sourcing Lead, supporting the Real Estate, Facilities & Retail Network Category you will be armed with key spend data, forward looking market intelligence and a fully integrated source to pay process, enabling you to be a strong strategic partner with business line executives. This will help you drive shorter cycle times, increased market intelligence, higher level strategic discussions and increased savings opportunities.
The Senior Sourcing Lead will report to the Real Estate, Facilities & Retail Network Category Team Manager in Strategic Sourcing within Procurement and is responsible for driving cost savings initiatives for the assigned category and considering the total cost of ownership across the Bank.
The successful candidate will partner with business owners to identify market and economic trend opportunities and execute against them to continually improve the value derived from third party relationships. The primary focus is to align with the business lines in a way that generates a positive impact to them achieving their business goals, while optimizing value to the overall organization.
Primary responsibilities include
- Develop commodity strategies to achieve cost savings and improve quality and service levels by identifying opportunities and sourcing strategies for strategic/complex negotiations.
- Oversee all spend activity for assigned commodity and determine proper action plan for all purchases that meet Procurement involve threshold.
- Lead cross-functional teams to execute sourcing initiatives including the competitive bidding process and contract negotiations.
- Ability to negotiate, including contract red lining for all types of corporate transactions using an Agile contracting framework.
- Provide Category Procurement subject matter expertise for the associated business/function.
- Effectively work with functional and business groups as a trusted advisor to determine desired product/service specifications and projected demand when making recommended action plans.
- Maintain close relations with the industry supply base and industry experts with the objective to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
- Proactively identify improvement opportunities for assigned category areas and recommend key actions.
- Utilize analytical thinking and tools to identify new benefits generation; prioritize projects to ensure demonstrated impact to the business.
Qualifications, Education, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials
- Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of progressive experience in category management, vendor management and strategic sourcing.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex negotiations and enterprise-wide sourcing initiatives.
- Strong commercial acumen and financial modeling capability.
- Advanced analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Experience working cross-functionally and driving consensus across stakeholders.
- Structured, organized, and methodical planning skills.
- Executive-level communication and presentation skills.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in financial services or other regulated industries.
- Experience sourcing construction, renovation, upfit, facilities maintenance, and building-services categories in a multi-site corporate or retail environment.
- Demonstrated ability to structure program-level sourcing strategies, including regional supplier panels, bundled site events, rate cards, and scalable contracting models.
- Preferred experience with the New York/New Jersey construction and facilities supplier market; California market experience is a plus.
- Knowledge of third-party risk management frameworks and regulatory environments.
- Experience managing large, complex spend portfolios.
- MBA or professional certification (CPSM, CIPS, or similar).
Hours & Work Schedule
- Hours per Week: 40 hours per week.
- Work Schedule: Monday - Friday.
Pay Transparency
The salary range for this position is $123,000– $161,000 per year, plus an opportunity to earn additional incentive earnings. Actual pay is based on various factors including, but not limited to, the budget, work location, and relevant skills and experience. No other portions of the posting are changing, including benefits language or incentive guidance (e.g., Teller roles should continue to remove incentive language as noted).
We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens’ paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of every local and state jurisdiction in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits .