Principal, Strategic Sourcing Manager – Services

As a Principal Strategic Sourcing Manager, you are a critical individual contributor responsible for driving the sourcing strategy and value chain optimization for Intuit's Services categories (e.g., Professional Services, Management Consulting, HR Consulting, Benefits, Workplace, Facilities, Events, etc.). This role requires deep expertise in the services landscape, understanding its impact on business outcomes and total cost of ownership, with a focus on driving business transformation.

You will collaborate with senior leaders across Intuit to identify opportunities for operational improvements, cost optimization, and risk mitigation, ensuring best value from third‑party investments.

This role demands a strategic thinker, a strong connector, and a highly analytical individual capable of synthesizing insights between third parties, Intuit’s value chain, and their impact on growth and innovation to drive Intuit's objectives forward. You will develop and execute long and short‑term sourcing strategies, with an equal emphasis on identifying, analyzing, and quantifying opportunities, as well as managing RFx processes and leading challenging vendor negotiations.

Leadership

• Take ownership and responsibility for proactively leading and managing strategic sourcing initiatives within Professional Services categories.
• Lead a portfolio including multiple projects that require strategy, planning, and execution of transformational, complex, and innovative initiatives.
• Direct, define, and implement sourcing strategies to drive corporate earnings, growth strategy, and business transformation objectives for the category portfolio.
• Drive a total cost of ownership mindset, including strategically evaluating build/buy/acquire decisions.
• Connect product strategies with company input goals.
• Contribute suggestions to assist management in the development of organizational strategy, structure, and operational roadmap.
• Proactively build relationships with and influence executive stakeholders (Director/VP and above).
• Collaborate with procurement teams to ensure sourcing efficiency, automation, sourced supplier utilization, risk mitigation, and contract compliance.
• Partner with International teams to implement global suppliers and establish local engagement models.
• Demonstrate and practice a high degree of professional integrity and ethical responsibility in all business activities.
• Keep abreast of industry innovation and bring ideas that will help the company re‑imagine and leapfrog ahead, resulting in advancements in technology and AI, process methodologies, or establishing supplier alliances.

Opportunity Assessment

• Own and drive opportunity assessments, including total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, with the right balance of strategic insights (spend, supplier, category, contract) and representation of current state to drive senior stakeholder engagement.
• Evaluate and recommend strategic opportunities/initiatives to Strategic Sourcing leadership utilizing current and emerging business models, assessing short-term and long-term industry and strategic considerations.
• Develop an effective approach to present and obtain sponsorship from senior leadership on opportunities.

Strategic Sourcing Process Execution and Project Management

• Provide category expertise and identify potential sources of supply, determine capabilities of suppliers’ product and service offerings, and relate offerings to stakeholder needs.
• Demonstrate the ability to put a structured sourcing process into action in formal and informal negotiations, and leverage the process to resolve conflicts and build consensus.
• Drive project activity across large cross‑functional team through communication of expectations, decisions, changes, enforcement of deadlines, and creation and evaluation of deliverables.
• Define data needed to meet objectives and develop an effective plan for gathering it (including spend, contracts, supplier information, stakeholder insights, current state process & tools).
• Utilize analysis to solve business problems and draw conclusions and insights that are not immediately obvious.
• Gather, analyze, and document requirements using…