Senior Sourcing & Category Manager

Req ID: 78234 

Location: Tulsa -TUL, Oklahoma City -OKC, Dallas -DAL, Houston -HOUS, Kansas City -KSCY  

Areas of Interest:  Bank Operations  

Pay Transparency Salary Range: Not Available  

Application Deadline: 09/03/2026

BOK Financial Corporation Group includes BOKF, NA; BOK Financial Securities, Inc. and BOK Financial Private Wealth, Inc. BOKF, NA operates TransFund and Cavanal Hill Investment Management, Inc. BOKF, NA operates banking divisions: Bank of Albuquerque; Bank of Oklahoma; Bank of Texas and BOK Financial®.

Bonus Type

Discretionary

Summary

For over a century, BOK Financial has grown alongside its clients, offering tailored services and strategies for business, consumer, and wealth clients. Our extensive range of services allows us to compete nationally while our local decision-making and community connections make us good neighbors. Our purposeful diversification ensures resilience and stability, highlighting our expertise and commitment to meeting all your financial needs.

Job Description

The Senior Sourcing & Category Manager is responsible for developing and executing category strategies, leading strategic sourcing initiatives, and managing supplier relationships to deliver commercial value, risk mitigation, and operational efficiency. This role serves as a key interface between business stakeholders, Contracts, Legal, and Third-Party Risk Management, ensuring alignment to enterprise objectives and governance.

Team Culture

Our culture thrives on integrity, collaboration, and innovation. We put people first by investing in their potential and helping them build careers that matter. Our dedication to continuous learning keeps us at the forefront of industry trends, enabling us to deliver exceptional solutions for our clients. Join us to be part of an energetic, supportive, and visionary team where your skills are celebrated, and your career can thrive.

How You'll Spend Your Time

• Lead highly complex cross-functional efforts, shaping category strategy, conducting RFP’s/RFI’s, building senior leadership alignment and driving favorable outcomes.
• Employ strong knowledge of key hardware and software industry players, competitors, and market dynamics.
• Build relationships with strategic suppliers and industry players and proactively manage and measure supplier performance.
• Lead and support contract lifecycle work across strategic technology SaaS agreements.
• Develop commercial strategy for both new and existing vendors. Lead complex negotiations, including pricing models.

Education & Experience Requirements

A bachelor’s degree is required, along with 8–12+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, or procurement (an advanced business or supply chain degree preferred), and demonstrated expertise in leading complex sourcing events and negotiations, strong commercial acumen—including pricing models, supplier economics, and contract structures—and experience managing strategic suppliers and enterprise-level stakeholder relationships. 

• Experience using or enabling AI-driven procurement tools (e.g, sourcing optimization, intake automation)
• Familiarity with AI-assisted negotiation support tools, or copilots to improve speed and quality of outcomes
• Advanced negotiation skills (complex deal structuring, multi-variable pricing models)
• Strong understanding of supplier economics, cost drivers, and margin structures
• Ability to structure commercial terms (pricing, volume tiers, escalation caps, SLAs)
• Executive-level communication and presentation skills
• Ability to influence without authority across senior stakeholders
• Strong relationship management and conflict resolution capabilities
• Deep expertise in RFx processes and competitive sourcing
• Experience designing sourcing pipelines and governance models

BOK Financial Corporation Group is a stable and financially strong organization that provides excellent training and development to support building the long term careers of employees.  With passion, skill and partnership you can make an impact on the success of the bank, customers and your own career!
Apply today and take the first step towards your next career opportunity!

 
The companies in BOK Financial Corporation Group are equal opportunity employers. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, genetic information or veteran status.

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