Strategic Sourcing Manager, Retail Operations & Facilities

Sephora; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k with match

FSA/HSA

Student Debt retirement

PTO/flexible leave

Tuition reimbursement

Discounts

Volunteer matching

Job summary

Sephora is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager, Retail Operations & Facilities, to drive enterprise-level sourcing for Store Operations and Facilities. The role emphasizes building strong partnerships, executing sourcing strategies, and delivering measurable savings.

You will lead category strategies, negotiate contracts, and manage supplier relationships across US and Canada, contributing to cost reductions and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or Operations preferred.
• 5+ years across end-to-end strategic sourcing engagements.
• Experience negotiating enterprise agreements (MSA/SOW).

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of strategic sourcing for projects, from market profiling to awards.
• Support stakeholders with requirements and contract negotiations.
• Develop category strategies and roadmaps with key partners.
• Identify spend optimization opportunities across departments.

Skills

Strategic Sourcing

Retail Category

Educational Background

Negotiation

Analytical Skills

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Data Visualization

e-RFX

Contract Lifecycle

Job description

Job ID: 297687 Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174) Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US) Job Type: Full Time Position Type: Regular Job Function: Real Estate/Prop Dev Work Location: San Francisco - Hybrid

Belong to Something Beautiful

At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential, and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.

Your Role at Sephora:

Ready for a career glow up? As Strategic Sourcing Manager, Retail Operations & Facilities, you'll be developing strong and effective business partner relationships and providing strategic sourcing support to Sephora at an enterprise level and to the Store Operations and Facilities business units. The work you do will impact beauty, as you generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies and leverage the Source-to-Contract process to deliver measurable value and savings across store supplies, asset protection services, and facilities. You'll be part of a team that's united in beauty, supported by those who are equally passionate about delivering incredible service and value to internal stakeholders and driving the scaling of our Sourcing team and processes.

What You'll Do:

• End-to-End Strategic Sourcing: Lead all aspects of the strategic sourcing process for assigned projects—including profiling the supply market, partnering with stakeholders to identify business requirements, leading RFI/X events using sourcing technology, gaining consensus on awards, conducting supplier negotiations, finalizing contracts, and handing awarded business off to business partners.
• Business Partner Support: Support business partners with sourcing objectives and supplier needs by leveraging the Intake-to-Contract process, assisting in contract negotiations for relevant categories, acting as the lead for assigned contracts, and summarizing negotiation results in deal summaries for senior leader approval.
• Category Strategy & Roadmaps: Build comprehensive category strategies across all assigned areas, understanding supply markets to optimize supplier capabilities at national and regional levels, and build strategic sourcing roadmaps in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Cross-Departmental Spend Optimization: Identify and optimize leverage spend opportunities across departments for both the US and Canada, Sephora Global, and LVMH to reduce total costs for the broader business while supporting the Director of Strategic Sourcing with broader retail operations and facilities requirements.

What You'll Bring:

• Strategic Sourcing Experience: Proven success with 5+ years across end-to-end strategic sourcing engagements.
• Retail Category Expertise: 5+ years of sourcing experience with retail store and facilities categories across goods and services (preferably with a North American retail store organization).
• Educational Background: Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or Operations preferred (or equivalent experience).
• Negotiation & Agreement Mastery: Experience in negotiating enterprise agreements typical of assigned categories (such as master services agreements and statements of work) in a timely manner.
• Technical & Analytical Skills: Advanced analytics, Excel, PowerPoint presentation, data visualization, and sourcing tools skills, alongside hands‑on experience with employee collaboration, procure-to-pay, e‑RFX, and contract lifecycle management software.
• Stakeholder & Project Management: Excellent project and timeline management skills with a proven track record of cost reduction, productivity improvements, and building strong cross‑functional relationships.

What You'll Get:

The annual base salary range for this position is $135,000.00 - $151,000.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant's qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non‑discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses. This job will be posted for a minimum of five days.

Caring Community. You'll collaborate with teammates who are equally passionate about innovating and driving the industry forward - together, united in beauty.

Fulfilling Path. Your career transformation starts here, with opportunities that will challenge, stretch and develop your skills.

Meaningful Work. As you make an impact on beauty, you'll feel and see the positive change (consumer, industry, and social) that your individual voice is a part of.

Rewards as Unique as You:

• Health. Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your family's needs with medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Sephora also fully covers our employees' disability and life insurance.
• We offer a competitive 401k with 4% match as well as FSA and HSA programs.
• We also offer a Student Debt Retirement plan, where your student loan payments qualify to earn the 401k match from Sephora.
• Balance. You'll be empowered to find the perfect blend of work/life balance that actually works for you with PTO, flexibility, protected leave, and more.
• Growth. Career growth is built into every role, with access to training, development, and tuition reimbursement.
• Perks. Think you've tried it all? Enjoy a 30% discount on all merchandise/services, opportunities for free product or gratis, and flash sale discounts on LVMH brand products.
• Support. Join a team that truly cares - with free mental health and financial coaching resources with 24/7 access to Modern Health and Financial Finesse. Plus, volunteer and donation matching.

Sephora values a diverse and inclusive workplace and considers all applicants without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, national origin, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), age, religion, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.

Sephora is committed to providing reasonable accommodation ta applicants with disabilities or other medical conditions.

Sephora will consider all qualified applicants, including those with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.

Join Us and Belong to Something Beautiful