Strategic Sourcing Manager, Technology

About Us:

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

About The Role:

As a Procurement team, we aim to greatly enhance Notion’s long term profitability and sustainable growth. We do this by reinforcing and supporting our company strategic goals and values by securing the best possible value for our stakeholders in a transparent way. We also collaborate and partner together to empower all Notinos to purchase what they need so they can do their best work. As an early member of the team, you will own and manage our Engineering sourcing categories. This includes building and scaling Notion’s key Procurement systems and processes and have real ownership and impact in a fast pace and dynamic environment. This role requires someone who is data driven, strategic and has the ability to execute well in a high pace and entrepreneurial environment.

What You'll Achieve:

• Build strong partnerships with key Engineering, Product and Design stakeholders to understand, identify, and address their needs effectively.

• Manage global spending for key Engineering-related categories. Strong experience with PaaS/IaaS/SaaS solutions focusing on spend optimization, supplier performance, risk reduction, and adherence to processes.

• Collaborate to conduct RFx, lead contract negotiation with suppliers and agencies; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify important benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements.

• Oversee supplier selection, performance management, and supply base optimization to ensure top-quality service, cost-effectiveness, and high standards.

• Guide business stakeholders through source-to-pay processes, procedures, and policies.

• Continuously evaluate procurement processes to identify inefficiencies and recommend and implement improvements to drive scalability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

• Work cross-functionally with teams such as Legal, InfoSec, Privacy, Finance, IT, and Compliance to ensure vendors (both new and existing) meet all relevant requirements.

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

• 5+ years of industry experience in Sourcing Management or Supply Chain Management

• 2+ years of experience in Technology Strategic Sourcing, with a focus on infrastructure-related categories, PaaS, IaaS and SaaS (or similar relevant areas).

• Experience working in a high pace and high transactions environment

• Familiar with best in class Source-to-Contract and Procure-to-Pay practices

• Experience in working with and improving supplier performance and/or supply chain processes

• Superior interpersonal and communication skills, with experience influencing, negotiating, building consensus and making key strategic decisions in a fast-paced, often ambiguous, entrepreneurial and cross-functional environment

Nice to Haves:

• Experience working with Legal and have a strong understanding of key negotiated terms

• Experience using Procurement and Sourcing Tools such as ZIP, SCOUT, COUPA, Oracle, etc.

• You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $180,000 per year.

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