Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.

Job Description

About the Role

The New York Times Company is looking for an experienced leader to join us as Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing, who will be responsible for strategic sourcing across the Company. You will be an expert in category management, sourcing strategy, and supplier relationship management. You will lead a team of sourcing professionals and motivate and inspire the team to model The Times’s values and behaviors throughout the execution of their work.

You will add new value through our vendor partnerships and enable our operations. Together with your team, you will work with senior leaders across the Company to develop The Times’ sourcing strategy, contract negotiation, supplier performance measurement, and category-specific recommendations. You and your team will provide insights into the vendor landscape to result in positive outcomes, maximize value of investments and alignment to business objectives by determining the best vendors and value for the brand. You will collaborate with company partners, Legal, Cybersecurity, and Finance, and external vendors.

You will report directly to the Senior Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis. This is a hybrid position in the headquarters office in New York, NY three times a week.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement across-the-company sourcing strategies that support our goals and ensure cost-effective procurement of goods and services.
• Work with senior leaders across the Company to understand their strategies and influence the role suppliers play in achieving them.
• Communicate with partners insights into our evolving spend profile, savings outcomes, and risk mitigation efforts, using interactions with the external marketplace on pricing, vendor, and technology trend insights.
• Lead supplier diversity and sustainability projects, aligning them with our overarching strategy to establish the best processes.
• Manage a team of category specialists to develop supplier and partner relationships delivering cost reduction and ongoing improvement in respective categories.
• Collaborate with business leaders to institute top-tier supplier relationship management practices, establishing procedures for assessing supplier performance against contractual obligations, service levels, and business expectations.
• Partner with project teams to improve the procure-to-pay platform (Coupa), contract management repository (Ironclad), and strategic sourcing technology solutions.
• Lead critical negotiations and customer engagement in company-wide projects representing supplier and sourcing activities.
• Monitor market trends and identify opportunities for innovation and cost savings.
• Expert understanding of multi-step strategic sourcing strategies.
• Experience managing internal customers and institutionalizing partner communications for input and agreement.
• Cultivate relationships with both company partners and external audiences.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
  
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 12+ years of strategic sourcing and supplier relations experience leading strategic sourcing teams.
• 6+ years of experience in category-specific sourcing in spend areas such as technology, software (SaaS), outsourced services, marketing, professional services, travel, and HR.
• 5+ years of experience in a people management position.
• Bachelor’s degree.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree.
• Experience with year-over-year delivery of distinctive value from strategic supply chain activities and negotiation skills.
• Experience with spend data analytics, and contract management systems.
  
  
  

The annual base pay range for this role is between $210,000.00 and $230,000.00.

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

The Company will further consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable "Fair Chance" laws.

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