Associate Director, Strategic Sourcing
Wolters Kluwer
Associate Director, Strategic Sourcing
Wolters Kluwer seeks an Associate Director, Strategic Sourcing to lead global sourcing operations and transformation. The role involves overseeing a team of sourcing managers, driving strategic initiatives, and managing complex sourcing projects in software and technology categories. Requires significant strategic sourcing experience and strong stakeholder management skills.
Associate Director, Strategic Sourcing
Wolters Kluwer seeks an Associate Director, Strategic Sourcing to lead global sourcing operations and transformation. The role involves overseeing a team of sourcing managers, driving strategic initiatives, and managing complex sourcing projects in software and technology categories. Requires significant strategic sourcing experience and strong stakeholder management skills.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee successful delivery of a large portfolio of sourcing projects.
- Support, coach, and guide a team of Sourcing Managers and sourcing professionals.
- Act as key escalation point for sourcing, supplier, stakeholder, and delivery challenges.
- Manage workload prioritization, capacity planning, and operational performance.
- Build strong partnerships with stakeholders across Legal, IT, Security, Risk Management, Operations, and senior leadership.
- Lead sourcing transformation and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Drive adoption of sourcing tools, procurement technology, and AI-enabled capabilities.
- Personally manage several strategic sourcing projects, particularly within software and technology categories.
- Lead commercial negotiations and supplier discussions for complex and high-value agreements.
- Develop insights, reporting, and recommendations supporting strategic decision-making.