Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager - Technology (SaaS and IT Services)

Working at Atlassian
Atlassian can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassian have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Atlassian's Finance team is recognized as a competitive differentiator driving results and decisions as a tightly integrated trusted advisor. We drive impact through proactive, strategic business partnership with leaders across the company and are critical drivers of the next horizon for the company.
Atlassian Technology Sourcing team is growing and as a Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager you will be supporting our CTO leadership teams and ExecOps by establishing strategic relationships that can maximize the value between Atlassian and our providers while delivering best-in-class procurement services. Are you interested in contributing significantly to the overall success of the company, helping build out a globally scalable procurement group, establishing sourcing strategies, and leading change? If so, we're just getting started.
Responsibilities
In this role, you'll get to:

• Identify, obtain agreement, and lead transformational sourcing projects, following a standard strategic sourcing methodology that maximizes Atlassian's value
• Personally lead projects, serving as the primary liaison between Legal, Finance, department teams, project managers and other partners in the end-to-end strategic sourcing process including category analysis, supplier selection, and contract negotiation
• Establish relationships across the teams to ensure active and early participation in supplier related matters
• Provide rigorous analysis of spend data and industry dynamics to Identify and launch sourcing projects
• Identify process improvements to increase efficiencies and maximize spend opportunity
• Contribute to implementation and change management of process improvement projects across Atlassian
• Mentor partners on procurement practices
• Lead the planning and launch of RFIs and RFPs

Minimum Qualifications
On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• Bachelor's degree with 8-12 years of strategic sourcing experience, with broad knowledge of sourcing software, hardware, and services, running COGs and indirect spend in a fast paced environment.
• Experience in sourcing, negotiating, and delivery of complex contracts, with an emphasis in technology related purchases (SaaS, IT Operations, HR, Marketing, Facilities and Finance) and consulting services including experience working with and influencing IT and business leaders along with supplier executives
• Along with capabilities with an ability to understand, translate, (and ) refine business cases for successful sourcing / vendor relationships
• Experienced negotiation skills in both financial and business matters, including commercial terms for strategic contracts
• Ability to present technical issues, ideas, and recommendations in verbal, written and presentation formats
• Teamwork oriented
• Experience working globally, working with partners, team members, and suppliers
• Expertise across the full lifecycle of strategic sourcing and corporate procurement activities including sourcing strategies, RFP development & analysis, supplier selection, contract negotiations, contract preparation, and review and analysis.
• A clear ability to inspire change, handle conflict, bring together different points of view, make decisions, and achieve OKRs
• Knowledge of legal and technology related contract terms and conditions
• Knowledge of procurement policies and tools.

Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .