Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

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The Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, Corporate Services is a highly experienced individual contributor responsible for providing deep category expertise, consultative leadership, and strategic sourcing execution across Autodesk’s global Corporate Services portfolio, with primary focus areas including Marketing Services, Event Services, and HR Services.

Reporting to the Director, Corporate Services and Responsible Sourcing, this role operates as a senior category owner, accountable for strategy development, sourcing execution, and supplier governance across multiple services domains.

The Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager serves as a trusted advisor to senior business, Finance, and Legal leaders, translating functional strategies into scalable, commercially sound sourcing solutions that balance speed, flexibility, service quality, and cost effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Services Category Leadership

• Serve as a senior Procurement subject matter expert across Corporate Services sourcing, including Marketing, Events, Professional Services, and HR Services
• Own category strategy development across service areas such as:
  • Creative, digital, media, and agency services
  • Events, experiential marketing, sponsorships, and production
  • Professional Services including contingent workers, business advisory consulting and specialized consulting services.
  • HR services including talent, learning, consulting, and workforce programs
• Develop multi-year category strategies aligned to business objectives, functional roadmaps, and enterprise financial goals
• Maintain strong understanding of service delivery models, supplier operating structures, and commercial benchmarks
• Monitor external market trends across marketing, HR, and professional services to inform sourcing strategy

Strategic Sourcing & Commercial Excellence

• Lead complex sourcing initiatives and negotiations across Corporate Services suppliers
• Design and implement innovative commercial models, including:
  • Retainer and managed service structures
  • Rate cards and blended pricing
  • Performance- or outcome-based pricing models
  • Demand aggregation and volume-leverage strategies
• Execute global RFPs and supplier evaluations focused on total value, risk, and scalability
• Drive supplier consolidation and preferred supplier frameworks
• Partner with Legal and Finance to structure master agreements and statements of work

Consultative Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as a trusted sourcing advisor to senior leaders across Marketing, HR, Finance, and other corporate functions
• Support proactive engagement and early demand visibility across initiatives and programs
• Translate functional strategies into sourcing priorities and execution roadmaps
• Influence stakeholders to adopt recommended sourcing approaches and governance standards
• Balance functional flexibility with financial discipline and enterprise controls

Cross-Functional Integration

• Partner closely with Finance, FP&A, Legal, ESG, and Procurement Operations
• Support enterprise cost optimization and spend management initiatives across Corporate Services
• Align sourcing activity to quarterly and annual planning cycles
• Lead resolution of complex sourcing challenges requiring cross-functional coordination

Supplier Strategy & Governance

• Manage strategic relationships with key Corporate Services suppliers
• Establish and track performance metrics focused on cost efficiency, service quality, and value delivery
• Lead supplier governance reviews and continuous improvement initiatives
• Support responsible sourcing, ESG, and sustainability expectations across the supplier ecosystem

Transformation & Maturity Enablement

• Contribute to development of Corporate Services sourcing playbooks, standards, and best practices
• Support adoption of intake, sourcing, and contract enablement tools
• Drive increased spend under active management across Corporate Services categories
• Share market intelligence and best practices across the Procurement organization

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or commercial leadership
• Demonstrated expertise sourcing complex services categories within a Procurement organization
• Proven experience leading global sourcing initiatives and high-value negotiations
• Strong financial acumen and commercial structuring capability
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience sourcing Marketing, HR, or other corporate services
• Background in consulting, agency management, or professional services sourcing
• Familiarity with services-based operating and delivery models
• Experience with performance- or outcome-based commercial structures
• MBA or advanced degree

About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $89,000 and $159,720. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Diversity & Belonging

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