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About the Role

Join Central 1 as a Senior Sourcing Manager to shape strategic supplier relationships and investments. You will lead enterprise-wide sourcing initiatives, complex negotiations, and partner with senior leaders to drive business outcomes, strengthen supplier performance, governance, and risk management, and influence procurement strategy.

Responsibilities

Develop and lead enterprise sourcing strategies for critical supplier categories.
Influence business investment decisions through market intelligence and commercial recommendations.
Act as the procurement lead for high-profile initiatives and strategic projects.
Provide subject matter expertise and strategic guidance to senior leaders on supplier markets and sourcing approaches.
Identify opportunities to improve enterprise-wide supplier leverage and reduce spend fragmentation.
Support annual procurement planning and development of the enterprise sourcing pipeline.
Serve as Procurement Relationship Executive for assigned strategic suppliers.
Lead executive governance discussions and business reviews with strategic supplier leadership teams.
Drive supplier performance, innovation initiatives, continuous improvement programs, and value realization activities.
Coordinate executive escalation and remediation activities for critical supplier issues.
Evaluate and challenge supplier strategies, pricing models, commercial structures, and operational performance.
Lead negotiations for complex technology, professional services, software, cloud, payment, and operational services agreements.
Drive favorable commercial terms, pricing structures, service commitments, and contractual protections.
Collaborate with Legal and Risk teams to address contractual, regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity, and operational risk requirements.
Manage renewals and renegotiations to maximize enterprise value while minimizing risk.
Support third-party risk management activities for critical suppliers.
Ensure sourcing activities comply with procurement policies, regulatory expectations, and internal governance frameworks.
Assess financial, operational, cybersecurity, concentration, and resiliency risks during sourcing and contract renewal activities.
Support ongoing supplier governance and remediation activities for high-risk suppliers.
Develop strong relationships with senior business leaders and executives.
Act as a trusted advisor on procurement strategy, sourcing approaches, market intelligence, and supplier capabilities.
Influence business decisions through data-driven analysis and market insights.
Facilitate alignment among multiple stakeholder groups with competing priorities.
Mentor, coach, and provide functional leadership to Sourcing Managers and other procurement team members.
Lead complex negotiations and sourcing activities involving multiple resources and stakeholders.
Share best practices and establish sourcing standards across the Procurement function.
Support development of procurement capabilities, tools, templates, governance processes, and training programs.
Act as deputy to the Director of Procurement when required.
Contribute to procurement transformation initiatives and process improvements.
Work with the team to develop sourcing policies, governance standards, templates, and best practices.
Mentor junior sourcing professionals and support knowledge sharing across the Procurement team.
Track and report sourcing outcomes, savings, risk reduction, and supplier performance metrics.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, vendor management, or commercial management.
Experience leading large, enterprise-level sourcing initiatives, ideally managing annual spend of $25M+.
Strong negotiation and commercial management skills, including negotiating complex contracts with strategic suppliers and senior stakeholders.
Proven ability to influence and advise senior executives on supplier strategy, risk, commercial decisions, and business outcomes.
Experience managing strategic suppliers across areas such as technology, SaaS, cloud, payments, outsourcing, cybersecurity, and professional services.
Strong understanding of third-party risk, supplier governance, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience.
Strong financial and analytical skills, including developing business cases, financial models, and commercial recommendations.
Ability to build strong relationships and influence across the organization, while navigating complex or ambiguous situations.
Experience coaching, mentoring, or leading procurement professionals.
Ability to lead strategic initiatives and organizational change while working independently on high-profile, business-critical priorities.
Experience in financial services, banking, payments, fintech, or another regulated industry is strongly preferred.

Skills

Strategic Sourcing
Procurement
Vendor Management
Commercial Management
Negotiation
Contract Management
Supplier Relationship Management
Risk Management
Financial Analysis
Business Case Development
Stakeholder Management
Leadership
Mentoring
Coaching

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$110,000-$134,000 plus a variable pay incentive of 14%-21%

Benefits

Work-life flexibility
Hybrid work environment
Variable annual incentive plan
Generous annual vacation allotment
Top-notch flexible benefits plan including family building and gender affirmation
Retirement Plan, matched contributions at 6%
Access to a learning platform and educational assistance support
Access to a virtual wellness platform
Career development opportunities
Wellness Flex Fund to support personal interest and activities
Day off to volunteer in your community and other paid time off options
Corporate discounts

About the Company

Central 1 cooperatively empowers credit unions and other financial institutions to deliver banking choice to Canadians.
Central 1 provides critical services at scale to enable a thriving credit union system.
We do this by collaborating with our clients, developing strategies, products and services to support the financial well-being of their more than 5 million diverse customers in communities across Canada.

Equal Opportunity

Central 1 is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building an inclusive workforce by creating an environment where everyone feels like they belong and has the opportunity to be successful.
We welcome all applicants to join our diverse workforce and we will provide an accessible candidate experience including, but not limited to accommodations to interview sites and alternate formats upon request to our Recruitment team.