Senior Indirect Sourcing Manager
Senior Indirect Sourcing Manager
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Job Description
Your Career
Palo Alto Networks is looking for a strategic sourcing professional to join our team and lead procurement efforts across our Facilities Real Estate and Places categories. This is more than a sourcing roleits an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide decisions drive measurable cost efficiencies and strengthen partnerships across our Places organization.
You will bring deep category expertise and a passion for optimizing supplier performance. This position works cross-functionally to manage relationships with multiple suppliers focusing on contracting delivery quality cost performance and the overall relationship between Palo Alto Networks and our supply sources. Youll develop solutions to optimize demand costs and the supply chain driving performance based on KPIs and SLAs.
Your Impact
- Partner with stakeholders across Facilities and Corporate Services to develop and execute sourcing strategies that optimize cost quality and service delivery.
- Lead the full contract lifecycle: from drafting scopes of work and managing RFPs to redlining agreements and driving supplier onboarding.
- Drive negotiations that result in competitive pricing enforceable performance metrics (SLAs/KPIs) and scalable long-term agreements.
- Identify and implement cost-saving and cost-avoidance opportunities through spend analysis supplier consolidation and demand optimization.
- Serve as a key advisor on sourcing best practices helping internal teams make informed decisions that align with policy and long-term value.
Support risk management by evaluating supplier compliance onboarding and data integrity.
Qualifications :
Your Experience
8 years in strategic sourcing or procurement with a focus on indirect categories supporting Facilities/Places or Corporate Services.
Bachelors degree in Financeor equivalent military experience.
Demonstrated experience negotiating commercial terms contracts and pricing for complex services and indirect spend categories.
Advanced skills in quantitative applications such as Business Intelligence Data Warehouse solutions Microsoft Excel etc.
Experience managing supplier relationships and performance against contractual SLAs and KPIs.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and thriving in a fast-paced hyper-growth environment.
General experience procuring a diverse set of indirect goods and services is preferred.
Additional Information :
The Team
Our Procurement Operations team is a team of professionals with extensive process and procedure commitment when it comes to supporting the business in purchasing for the organization. We are a team dedicated to driving automation in our systems and our business processes. This team has a proven track record of success in the organization for automating anything manual to make the lives of our business partners easier to get things done that matter most. Were dedicated to meeting and exceeding our KPIs all the while enjoying every day. If you have a passion for procurement with the knowledge and experience we want you!
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $138000 - $221000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Our Commitment
Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at .
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
