Strategic Sourcing Senior Manager, Engineering/Technology

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed. Join us to transform the way the world works. At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. This role is based in either San Francisco or Mountain View. The Sr Manager, Strategic Sourcing role requires a customer orientation with emphasis on leadership, strong analysis, category expertise, global experience, and a passion for driving innovation and solutions. This position requires extensive experience with strategic sourcing methodologies related to indirect procurement commodities including market and spend analysis, building and maintaining a Category Plan, partnering with Business Unit leadership to define priorities, report progress and manage the performance of the Category Plan. In addition, the Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager will monitor supplier performance and ensure responsible sourcing practices are implemented. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in sourcing for Technology (specifically in the following categories: Software, Hardware, and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services categories) particularly large and complex enterprise agreements, which could include business and technical requirements gathering, supplier selection, due diligence, risk and compli