One of Swoons top clients in the Artificial Intelligence space is hiring a Professional Services Sourcing manager to join their team out of San Francisco, CA!
Details:
Location: Hybrid - San Francisco
Rate: $80-$95/hour W2
Duration: 6 months to start with chance of extension
This person will bridge strategic category leadership and day-to-day sourcing execution. This role sits between category coordination and category strategy, with a stronger tilt toward sourcing ownership, supplier strategy, and cross-functional deal execution. It will also be involved in M&A activities, helping to integrate the vendors of acquired companies.
Day to Day:
- Lead end-to-end sourcing for professional services engagements, from intake through negotiation, contracting, and award.
- Negotiate MSAs and ISAs with a wide range of professional services firms and align commercial terms to OpenAI’s risk and governance standards.
- Build and run competitive processes (RFP/RFQ), including scope shaping, bid evaluation, and commercial recommendation development.
- Partner with Legal, Finance, Security, and Extended Workfoce teams to structure agreements that balance speed, flexibility, compliance, and value.
- Standardize sourcing playbooks, rate card approaches, and service taxonomy to reduce fragmentation across the category.
- Build playbooks and repeatable frameworks for M&A-related sourcing and contract integration activities.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in sourcing, category management, procurement, or commercial operations in fast-scaling environments.
- Strong sourcing and negotiation experience across professional services, consulting, or contingent/advisory spend.
- Experience in M&A post merger integration of contracts
- Experience balancing strategic category goals with high-volume, hands-on sourcing execution.
