Job Responsibilities

• Build and maintain trusted collaborative relationships with Business and Functional Managers, acting as a strategic advisor on sourcing options, supplier strategies, and market insights, while anticipating client needs. 

• Lead the development and implementation of multiyear category strategies that span multiple lines of business and support enterprise priorities. 

• Own and execute endtoend strategic sourcing initiatives, partnering with stakeholders to define requirements and scope sourcing transactions. 

• Lead and expedite vendor selection and purchasing decisions through competitive bid processes and strategic sourcing tools and best practices. 

• Identify, qualify, and conduct comprehensive due diligence on suppliers, ensuring alignment with JPMCs risk, compliance, and business requirements. 

• Develop and maintain vendor intelligence and supplier profiles, producing qualitative assessments to inform selection, negotiation, and ongoing management decisions in compliance with all policy and procedural guidelines. 

• Evaluate supplier proposals and present clear, datadriven sourcing recommendations that balance cost, risk, service quality, and strategic fit. 

• Negotiate, manage, and monitor vendor agreements that protect JPMCs commercial, operational, and risk interests through socialization, approval and execution of established commercial contract terms.

• Partner with Legal, Risk, Finance, and regional sourcing teams to successfully complete complex negotiations and enterprise initiatives.
• Manage category and understand supplier spend, conducting indepth cost and spend analysis to deliver savings, reduce total cost of ownership, and mitigate thirdparty risk. 
• Deliver sourcing and category projects that lower the firms total spend and supply risk, while driving supplier performance and continuous improvement.

 

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Bachelor's Degree (e.g., business, finance, economics, marketing, communications) 
• Minimum 7 years experience in managing commodity or spend category spend (non-tech and some tech)
• Adept at general use of generative AI/LLMs in everyday work
• Direct experience working with Marketing spend categories (especially demand-side platforms (DSPs), social media platforms and/or affiliates)
• Direct experience working with large marketing technology companies (e.g., SEO providers).
• Interpersonal:  ability to lead and influence execute level stakeholders
• Thought Leadership: determination to drive breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement; sets a personal example
• Market Research:  ability to conduct market/industry/supplier analysis and synthesize data into a consumable format
• Legal Acumen:  strong understanding and proven experience in executing and amending complex legal Master Agreements and commercial agreements with SLAs; strategic negotiation ability
• Change Management:  experience and proven ability to drive change with management direction but without having to be prescribed to do so

• Project Management:  ability to develop, plan and execute projects and create remediation plans and actions with timely updates to management

   

 

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• MBA 
• Communication Skills:  ability to communicate effectively with internal sourcing and client stakeholders
• Cost Modeling:  ability to understand value streams, cost drivers and how to break down cost structures (e.g., CPMs)
• Business Strategy Alignment:  ability to understand business strategy and build plans to support it
• Risk Management:  knowledge of business risk factors and business savvy to minimize risk appropriately and communicate acceptance of risk factors when required.
• Technology Acumen:  advanced proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office Suite (especially advanced Excel and PowerPoint) as well as SAP Ariba suite.
• Sourcing Methodology:  strong knowledge of the key aspects of the RFI/RFP/RFQ and five step sourcing process

 

 

Lead global marketing sourcing, manage vendors, drive cost savings, mitigate risk and support business strategy across spend categories