Director of Global Strategic Sourcing - Marketing & Corporate Services

Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

We are looking for a dynamic Strategic Sourcing Director to bring deep category, strategic sourcing and industry expertise to lead cross functional teams and initiatives. This person will work closely with business leaders to implement spend management strategies that deliver big savings, streamline operations and improve internal customer satisfaction.

Reporting to the Head of Global Strategic Sourcing, this person will lead teams of category managers covering over $2B in annual spend across Marketing and Corporate Services categories. The category scope includes Media, Agency, Events, Content Production, Facilities, Real Estate, Construction, Professional Services, Contingent Labor and Benefits.

What you'll Do

• Develop internal customer relationships to better understand their priorities and requirements.

• Engage with internal clients and be responsible for the development of category strategies and plans that align with their needs while delivering savings to the organization.

• Lead cross-functional sourcing teams and initiatives from strategy development through sourcing, contracting and implementation.

• Develop organizational and team member capabilities, particularly in category management and strategic sourcing processes.

• Define and implement process improvements that increase customer happiness, reduce cycle time and deliver efficiency gains while ensuring compliance with policies and mitigating supplier risk.

What you need to succeed

• Demonstrated expertise in strategic sourcing for Marketing and Services categories at a global scale and within a fast paced, and dynamic organization is required.

• Demonstrated knowledge of Corporate Services categories at a global and local level is also preferred.

• Proven track record in developing collaborative, highly effective, strategic and tactical relationships with diverse customer groups across all levels.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and relationship building skills.

• A demonstrated track record of facilitating and influencing decision-making that aligns the interests of diverse teams.

• Outstanding ability to collaborate with business partners and teams in defining and implementing category strategies at scale.

• Solid leadership skills and demonstrated ability to recruit, mentor, develop and retain outstanding strategic sourcing teams.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.  Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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