Director, Strategic Sourcing - DocuSign : Job Details

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people's lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign's Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

As the Director, Strategic Sourcing, you are a highly accountable leader who is responsible for developing an extraordinary sourcing program, delivering procurement engagement with key business partners, recruiting and developing great talent, establishing category strategies, and driving spend management initiatives. You will lead a team of sourcing professionals who are passionate about innovating and driving value. You are a strategic problem solver with demonstrated sourcing program transformation, category management, and business relationship building expertise, and someone capable of operating with a high degree of autonomy. You enjoy communicating with impact to influence cross-functional leadership as well as team members.

This position is a people manager role reporting to the Sr. Director, Procurement & Sourcing.

Responsibility

* Build, coach, and encourage a team made up of high-performing sourcing professionals supporting all key Docusign supplier spend areas

* Shepherd development and execution of category management plans, sourcing events (e.g. RFPs, RFIs), supplier negotiations, sourcing playbooks, and sourcing intake and pipeline processes and tools

* Collaborate with Procure to Pay Operations and cross-functional partners to deliver a seamless, customer-centric suite of procurement services to Docusign

* Partner with senior business leaders to help navigate complex operations and spend initiatives with significant spend and risk, driving cross-functional cost containment efforts

* Spearhead the development and delivery of analytical reports on savings, metrics, and key performance indicators to monitor progress against objectives and key results

* Strategize and build frameworks and operating models to support efficient, scalable delivery of strategic procurement services to meet the needs of a fast-growing and dynamic technology company

* Develop and continuously improve supplier spend management policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with policies, procedures and control frameworks

* Work with partners to deliver on work-streams such as budget planning and category management activities

* Provide key leadership on supplier risk and performance issues

* Deliver on complex RFIs, RFPs, supplier negotiations, enterprise spend management initiatives, and contract review processes and procedures

Job Designation

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation)

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

* 12+ years of increasing strategic procurement/sourcing leadership experience, including expertise building and leading teams of sourcing professionals at mid-to-large companies

* 10+ years of deep-cycle strategic sourcing experience with technology, complex processional services, marketing, and other indirect spend categories, including negotiating large-scale enterprise technology agreements and managing sourcing engagement with technology senior leadership

* 7+ years of management experience

* Experience using procure-to-pay, sourcing, procurement workflow, market intelligence, spend analytics, and contract management software solutions

Preferred

* MBA, JD, or similar

* Procurement professional certification, such as CPSM, CIPS, CSP

* Experience with Oracle or similar P2P systems

* Experience implementing and using tools such as Scout/Workday

* Strategic Sourcing, Zip, Globality, or similar procurement intake, orchestration, and eSourcing tools

* Procurement leadership experience for software companies, with an understanding of how to navigate supplier/customer 360 degree relationship opportunities

* Passionate about achieving desired outcomes and delivering high-quality results for partners

* Experience using Tableau or other data visualization tools

* Ability to lead sophisticated initiatives and collaborate effectively with cross functional partners

* Enjoys the process of developing and continuously improving engagement and sourcing programs, engagement models, playbooks, sourcing intake/pipelines, and other sourcing procedures and tools

* Track-record of delivery on difficult, multi-dimensional sourcing initiatives for a broad range of spend categories

* Excellent communication and presentation skills

* Outstanding critical thinking, process improvement, and analytical skills with commitment to measuring and monitoring using critical metrics

* Consistently demonstrate an understanding of organizational priorities, attention to detail, and financial foresight

* Ability to quickly adjust to changing priorities and make decisions with limited information. Comfortable navigating ambiguity and championing change

Wage Transparency

Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:

California: $171,500.00 - $277,025.00base salary

Washington: $164,800.00 - $242,225.00 base salary

This role is also eligible for bonus, equity and benefits.

Global benefits provide options for the following:

* Paid Time Off: earned time off, as well as paid company holidays based on region

* Paid Parental Leave: take up to six months off with your child after birth, adoption or foster care placement

* Full Health Benefits Plans: options for 100% employer paid and minimum employee contribution health plans from day one of employment

* Retirement Plans: select retirement and pension programs with potential for employer contributions

* Learning and Development: options for coaching, online courses and education reimbursements

* Compassionate Care Leave: paid time off following the loss of a loved one and other life-changing events

Life at Docusign

Working here

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what's right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you'll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at [email protected].

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at [email protected] for assistance.

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States Not Eligible for Employment

This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can-do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.

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