IT Sourcing Team Lead - Strategic Procurement

Chain IQ; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Chain IQ is seeking a Team Leader, IT Strategic Sourcing to lead a global team of Strategic Sourcers and Senior Strategic Sourcers. You will drive complex IT sourcing initiatives, manage executive stakeholder relationships, and ensure high-value delivery across software, hardware, cloud, and services.

The role combines people leadership, delivery management, and strategic client engagement in a dynamic multinational setting, focusing on maximizing savings and risk mitigation while developing

Qualifications

• 6+ years of IT sourcing, procurement, vendor management, or commercial experience.
• Proven track record leading high-performing sourcing teams.
• Experience working in multinational and multi-client environments.
• Strong knowledge across IT domains including software licensing, hardware sourcing, and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Strategic Sourcers and Senior Strategic Sourcers.
• Conduct performance reviews, development discussions, and succession planning.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and retention of sourcing talent.
• Foster a high-performance culture focused on client value, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor team members on sourcing strategies, negotiation techniques, stakeholder management, and category expertise.
• Drive knowledge sharing and best-practice adoption across IT sourcing community.
• Promote employee engagement and create development opportunities for team members.
• Act as senior trusted advisor to executive stakeholders including CIOs, CTOs, CPOs, CFOs, Managing Directors, and Procurement Leadership.
• Build and maintain strategic client relationships to ensure long-term value creation and client satisfaction.
• Support complex executive-level discussions, escalations, and negotiations.
• Ensure consistent delivery quality across all sourcing initiatives managed by the team.
• Identify opportunities to expand sourcing support and strategic value delivery for clients.
• Oversee multiple high-value sourcing initiatives across software, hardware, cloud, telecommunications, outsourcing, managed services, and infrastructure categories.
• Provide strategic guidance on sourcing approaches, commercial models, supplier strategies, and negotiation tactics.
• Support and lead negotiations for large-scale and strategic supplier agreements.
• Review and challenge sourcing strategies to maximize savings, value creation, and risk mitigation.
• Ensure sourcing projects are delivered on time, within scope, and according to client expectations.
• Drive adoption of market benchmarks and category intelligence to strengthen negotiation outcomes.

Skills

IT sourcing

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

English fluency

MS Office

Analytics

AI-enabled sourcing tools

Tools

e-sourcing platforms

Procurement technologies

AI-enabled sourcing tools

Job description

Chain IQ is seeking a Team Leader, IT Strategic Sourcing to lead a global team of Strategic Sourcers and Senior Strategic Sourcers. You will drive complex IT sourcing initiatives, manage executive stakeholder relationships, and ensure high-value delivery across software, hardware, cloud, and services.

The role combines people leadership, delivery management, and strategic client engagement in a dynamic multinational setting, focusing on maximizing savings and risk mitigation while developing