Sourcing Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Payrate: $85.00 - $95.00/hr.

Summary:
We're looking for a highly organized sourcing and program professional to support vendor onboarding and contracting execution.
You'll be the connective tissue between our sourcing managers, business partners, and vendors - moving each engagement from selection through to a signed contract and a live program, and supporting ongoing supplier management and compliance once that program is live.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with stakeholders across Company to execute sourcing and vendor management for GenAI data annotation and collection vendors
• Lead contract negotiations that optimize value to the company
• Manage vendor performance and governance in collaboration with the business
• Provide market intelligence and sourcing updates to leadership

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree
• 4+ years of outsourcing or strategic sourcing experience, ideally in tech or AI domains
• Demonstrated success negotiating complex contracts and managing vendor relationships
• Strong commercial negotiation skills across multiple levers beyond rates (volume discounts, quality thresholds, speed to quality, service levels)
• Program management experience with business stakeholders, cross-functional groups, and third parties
• Highly organized structured thinker; able to synthesize complex information into executive-ready summaries

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience sourcing annotations for ML/AI or large language model development
• Experience managing high-volume data annotation sourcing programs
• Experience working with BPOs, crowdsource/freelance platforms, and boutique data vendors
• Experience breaking down vendor cost models and understanding ROI drivers

Pay Transparency:  The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $85.00 - $95.00 /hr . Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law. 

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