Staff Sourcing Manager - IT, AI and Professional Services

Job Description

Job Description

Company Summary

EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.

Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.

Our investment in the future needs those with an eye on the bottom line, and our Financial organization plays a vital role in supporting our game-changing ideas with creative solutions to complex problems. Team members have the unique opportunity to explore diverse business lines, gaining hands-on experience in various facets of finance, including accounting, audit and supply chain management.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview.

 

The Strategic Supply Chain team acts as the strategic and commercial control tower for high-value technology and service partnerships. This role addresses complex commercial negotiations, supplier selection, and vendor footprint consolidation across IT and Professional Services portfolios. By directing advanced AI workflow agents to handle tactical administrative execution, the position focuses on eliminating rogue tail-spend, enforcing rate-card ceilings, and mitigating legal and financial liabilities.

 

What Success Looks Like (Objectives):

• Formulate and execute end-to-end strategic sourcing plans across IT and Professional Services categories to secure competitive, multi-year commercial agreements
• Supervise digital AI agents by defining extraction parameters, auditing low-confidence exceptions, and validating automated metadata outputs in ServiceNow and LEAH CLM systems
• Drive proactive category market studies and execute competitive RFx events 6 to 12 months prior to contract expiration to prevent automatic price increases
• Partner with Legal and IT Finance to identify and mitigate commercial liabilities while enforcing rate-card ceilings and governing milestone-based payment structures
• Consolidate vendor footprints down to strategic hub partners to optimize overall category spend

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Core Skills and Competencies (What you’ll bring):

• Strategic sourcing excellence with a track record of delivering measurable cost avoidance and structural contract value in IT and professional services
• High-impact negotiation and influence skills to manage complex commercial discussions with Tier-1 technology partners and professional services suppliers
• Ability to direct, audit, and maximize the performance of automated software and digital AI workflow agents within a highly automated procurement ecosystem
• Advanced financial and analytical acumen to perform complex price variance calculations, analyze labor-mix models, and review complex rate cards
• Critical experience executing strategic sourcing, commercial negotiations, and business analysis within a high-volume enterprise environment

 

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or university
• 8–10 years of direct work experience in strategic sourcing, commercial negotiations, and business analysis within a high-volume enterprise corporate environment
• Must have at least 8 years of experience with:
• Sourcing IT and Professional Services
• Contract lifecycle management tools such as ServiceNow, LEAH CLM (ContractPodAI), SimplifyVMS, or
• Executing competitive RFx events and price variance analysis

 

Visa sponsorship not available for this role

Benefits

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: EchoStar Benefits.

 

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location. 

 

Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.

 

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

 

We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. EchoStar will accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employees if such accommodations are not undue hardships and are otherwise within the bounds of applicable law. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. You may redact any information that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of school/graduation from your application documents before submission and throughout our application process.

EchoStar will provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so poses an undue hardship on the Company, poses a direct threat of substantial harm to others, or is otherwise not required by law. EchoStar has a more detailed Accommodation Policy that applies to employees. EchoStar endeavors to make echostar.com and jobs.echostar.com accessible to users. Please contact View email address on ziprecruiter.com if you would like to discuss the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process. This contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications.

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