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LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

This role can be based out of our New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, or Mountain View office locations. At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

We are looking for a Director, Strategic Sourcing Operations to join our team to lead Sourcing Operations which supports and analyzes the end-to-end Source to Pay process, enhances and implements technology solutions; business, functional design & implementation.  In this role, you will lead the following functions:  systems & tools, business intelligence, and project management office for Strategic Sourcing.  Your team will partner on the most important strategic and operational initiatives to drive continued innovation and operational efficiency.

Core Responsibilities

• Partner with Strategic Sourcing leadership to drive global analysis and operating strategies for Strategic Sourcing organization and across the Source to Pay function.

• Effectively lead and develop a team of Strategic Sourcing team members.

• Drive high priority initiatives including (but not limited to) strategic planning, category optimization, supplier optimization, process optimization and data-driven insights.

• Partners with Product Engineering to enhance and modify Strategic Sourcing and Source to Pay systems to ensure a seamless end user experience for the business.

• Project manage strategic sourcing programs/initiatives globally as required to evolve and transform LinkedIn’s Source to Pay process.

• Liaise with Strategic Sourcing to ensure systems & tools, and business intelligence meets the needs of the teams.

• Lead the business intelligence and reporting function to ensure quality data for reporting and decision making across the organization that can be shared with LinkedIn Executives for improved purchasing, productivity and forecasting.

• Systems & Tools team manages Sourcing’s technology roadmap and strategy ensuring efficiencies and cross-functional collaboration and alignment.

• Plan and execute all initiatives and programs for maximum impact by minimal disruption to your key stakeholders in the Strategic Sourcing Team.

• Communicate insights to Senior Management.

• Work with fascinating data and be at the forefront of thought leadership.

• Manage and optimize Strategic Sourcing systems across the organization to increase efficiencies. Identify and manage the enablement and/or implementation of other applications.

• Develop new methods of improving efficiency in the sourcing process. Provide day to day system support to the Sourcing team and business owners. Capture and report on compliance and metrics for our policies and procedures. 

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

• 10+ years of professional experience in sourcing/procurement operations, technology systems or similar functional experience.

• 5+ years of people leadership experience.

• Experience with source to pay technology, processes and workflow development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business administration, Supply Chain Management or a related field

• Experience driving operational initiatives within a global sourcing organization

• Ability to demonstrate efficient ways to analyze data, drive insights and data driven decision making

• Report development, metrics and illustrative dashboards

• Ability to develop and manage technology roadmaps for large organizations

• Proficient at managing multiple simultaneous, high impact workstreams

• Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills

• Experience in the tech industry preferred

• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment

• Ability to take ownership, work with tight timelines, quickly adapt to shifting priorities and demands, analytical and problem-solving capabilities, influencing across the enterprise while delivering with a customer first focus

• Communicates in a clear, concise, and timely manner and operates effectively as a team player.  

• Progressive yet practical approach to Strategic Sourcing, focused on unlocking value and improving service

• Personable and credible - ability to build productive working relationships across global teams; internal cross-functional teams and external suppliers

• Lead discussions with varying levels of leadership and embrace difficult conversations with ease!

• Ability to influence, empower and align people across a broad variety of job functions

• Project management, data analytics and reporting expertise

Suggested Skills

• Strategic Sourcing

• Leadership

• Cross Functional Collaboration

• Stakeholder Management

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $149,000 - $242,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

Equal Opportunity Statement

LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: EEO Statement_2020 - Signed.pdf (https://microsoft.sharepoint.com/:b:/t/LinkedInGCI/EeE8sk7CTIdFmEp9ONzFOTEBM62TPrWLMHs4J1C_QxVTbg?e=xcELJV) .

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If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.

Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you

• Having interviews in an accessible location

• Being accompanied by a service dog

• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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