Senior Manager Strategic Sourcing

Kelly Digital Infrastructure; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Kelly Digital Infrastructure is seeking a Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager for IT & Professional Services to lead 3-month contract-to-hire engagements, onsite in Colorado. You will drive strategic sourcing, SOW creation, rate analysis, and AI-enabled spend optimization.

Collaborate across IT, Legal, and Finance; manage RFx events, vendor consolidation, and SLA governance while leveraging ServiceNow, LEAH CLM, and other CLM tools. Strong negotiation, data analysis, and AI literacy are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher required.
• 8–10 years of direct work experience in strategic sourcing and negotiations.
• Experience with IT and Professional Services sourcing.
• Familiarity with SOWs, T&M engagements, and staff augmentation.
• Proficiency in contract lifecycle tools (ServiceNow, LEAH CLM, etc.).
• Ability to analyze large data sets and identify trends.

Responsibilities

• Formulate end-to-end strategic sourcing plans across IT and Professional Services.
• Lead and audit AI-driven workflow agents and metadata outputs.
• Manage RFx events and price variance analyses to prevent cost escalations.
• Collaborate with Legal and IT Finance to enforce rate-card ceilings.
• Consolidate vendor footprints to strategic partners.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Negotiation

AI workflow agents

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

SOW/T&M

IT & Professional Services

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Oracle

ServiceNow

LEAH CLM

SimplifyVMS

ContractPodAI

Workday

Job description

Job Title: Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager – IT & Professional Services

Duration: 3 Months with possible extension

Pay Rate: $66/hr. on W2

Additional Notes:

• Employment: Contract-to-hire opportunity, with potential to extend or convert after the first 90 days.
• Work arrangement: 100% onsite. Candidates may choose between two work locations.
• Scope: Broad sourcing support across IT and professional services; the role requires someone comfortable handling a variety of needs.
• Statement of Work (SOW) expertise: Able to identify when an SOW is needed and create one from scratch. Familiarity with time-and-materials (T&M) engagements and staff augmentation is important.
• Pricing and rate analysis: Understand rate cards and pricing variances; able to review invoices or charges and audit for accuracy.
• Process improvement: Help establish and promote sourcing best practices.
• Data analysis: Comfortable analyzing large volumes of unstructured data to identify trends, discrepancies, or opportunities.
• Technology tools: Experience with Oracle, ServiceNow, contract lifecycle management tools, or Workday is a plus.
• AI literacy: Should be comfortable using AI tools; training on the company’s specific tools will be provided. Mentioned tools include Amazon Q, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
• Communication and collaboration: High emotional intelligence and the ability to work effectively with people across IT, Supply Chain, and other teams.
• Additional plus: Telecom sourcing experience.

Job Description

The Strategic Supply Chain team acts as the strategic and commercial control tower for high-value technology and service partnerships.

• This role addresses complex commercial negotiations, supplier selection, and vendor footprint consolidation across IT and Professional Services portfolios.
• By directing advanced AI workflow agents to handle tactical administrative execution, the position focuses on eliminating rogue tail-spend, enforcing rate-card ceilings, and mitigating legal and financial liabilities.

What Success Looks Like (Objectives):

• Formulate and execute end-to-end strategic sourcing plans across IT and Professional Services categories to secure competitive, multi-year commercial agreements
• Supervise digital AI agents by defining extraction parameters, auditing low-confidence exceptions, and validating automated metadata outputs in ServiceNow and LEAH CLM systems
• Drive proactive category market studies and execute competitive RFx events 6 to 12 months prior to contract expiration to prevent automatic price increases
• Partner with Legal and IT Finance to identify and mitigate commercial liabilities while enforcing rate-card ceilings and governing milestone-based payment structures
• Consolidate vendor footprints down to strategic hub partners to optimize overall category spend

Core Skills and Competencies (What you'll bring):

• Strategic sourcing excellence with a track record of delivering measurable cost avoidance and structural contract value in IT and professional services
• High-impact negotiation and influence skills to manage complex commercial discussions with Tier-1 technology partners and professional services suppliers
• Ability to direct, audit, and maximize the performance of automated software and digital AI workflow agents within a highly automated procurement ecosystem
• Advanced financial and analytical acumen to perform complex price variance calculations, analyze labor-mix models, and review complex rate cards
• Critical experience executing strategic sourcing, commercial negotiations, and business analysis within a high-volume enterprise environment
• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or university
• 8–10 years of direct work experience in strategic sourcing, commercial negotiations, and business analysis within a high-volume enterprise corporate environment
• Must have at least 8 years of experience with:
• Sourcing IT and Professional Services
• Contract lifecycle management tools such as ServiceNow, LEAH CLM, SimplifyVMS, or ContractPodAI
• Executing competitive RFx events and price variance analysis