Senior Manager, Indirect Sourcing & Procurement

Hellman & Friedman$137K — $183K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of strategic sourcing experience across multiple indirect categories (marketing, technology, professional services, HR, operations) in a high-growth company.
  • Strong relationship-building skills, able to collaborate with C-suite and all organizational levels.
  • Expertise in negotiating complex commercial agreements across varied categories.
  • Generalist mindset with the ability to effectively switch contexts and address diverse sourcing needs.
  • Meticulous with a detail-oriented approach that generates actionable recommendations.
  • Exceptional communication skills, with proficiency in executive-level presentations and interpersonal engagement.
  • Strong change management capabilities to influence and drive new behaviors.

Responsibilities

  • Own sourcing strategy and execution across a diverse portfolio of indirect spend categories.
  • Build partnerships with stakeholders to align sourcing strategy with business function priorities.
  • Create and execute category strategies focusing on value creation and risk mitigation.
  • Serve as a knowledgeable generalist across categories, ensuring credibility and strategic support.
  • Lead end-to-end RFx processes and present data-driven recommendations to leadership.
  • Champion strategic procurement to drive best practices across the organization.
  • Collaborate to improve workflows, spend visibility, and cross-functional execution.

Benefits

  • Mission- and values-driven culture fostering a safe and inclusive work environment.
  • Comprehensive total rewards package supporting wellness and security for employees and families.
  • Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for personal use.
  • Employee Resource Groups providing networking, mentorship, and advocacy opportunities.
Full Job Description
About the Role

SimpliSafe is growing a lean, high-impact Procurement team, and we're looking for a Senior Manager, Indirect Sourcing & Procurement to serve as a strategic partner across the full range of indirect spend categories from marketing and technology to professional services, people programs, and operations.

At SimpliSafe, Procurement operates as a strategic enabler, not a transactional function. We're customer-obsessed, so every sourcing decision should ultimately help us protect and serve our customers better, faster, or more affordably. We aim high on complex, high-visibility categories with a "make-it-happen" mindset, and we do it as one team, with no ego, lifting up stakeholders and teammates as we climb, and staying lean and nimble so we can move at the speed the business needs.

This is a highly visible role for someone who can flex across categories GTM and marketing, IT and technology, professional and consulting services, HR and people programs, contact center and monitoring center operations, data and analytics, corporate services, and other indirect spend areas as the business evolves. The ideal candidate brings broad category fluency, financial acumen, intellectual curiosity, and the interpersonal skill to influence senior stakeholders in a fast-moving, growth-oriented environment. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated self-starter to build a truly cross-functional sourcing practice and grow into a future procurement leader.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own sourcing strategy and execution across a broad portfolio of indirect categories including but not limited to marketing/GTM, technology, professional services, HR/people, and operations with real estate explicitly out of scope.
  • Build deep partnerships with stakeholders across the business, aligning sourcing strategy with each function's priorities and SimpliSafe's broader goals.
  • Create, prioritize, and execute category strategies and procurement project pipelines with a focus on value creation (savings and cost avoidance), speed, innovation, and risk mitigation.
  • Serve as the team's go-to generalist across a wide range of categories, developing enough depth in each to be a credible advisor while knowing when to loop in specialist input.
  • Lead RFx processes end-to-end, present negotiation outcomes, build business cases, and influence budget owners and senior leadership through data-driven recommendations.
  • Champion strategic procurement across the organization, driving adoption of best practices through influence rather than mandate.
  • Collaborate across the organization to streamline workflows, improve spend visibility, increase speed-to-market, and strengthen cross-functional execution.
  • Flex quickly across categories as business priorities shift, reflecting our lean and nimble operating style.

Qualifications
  • 8+ years of strategic sourcing experience as a generalist across multiple indirect categories (e.g., marketing, technology, professional services, HR, operations), ideally at a high-growth B2C or B2B company. Real estate sourcing experience is not required.
  • Proven ability to build relationships at all organizational levels, including C-suite partners.
  • Demonstrated expertise negotiating complex commercial agreements across varied category types (SaaS, media, agencies, BPO, professional services, analytics, or similar).
  • Comfortable moving across categories and context-switching without losing rigor a generalist mindset rather than deep specialization in a single spend area.
  • Meticulous attention to detail combined with the ability to see the forest through the trees and turn analysis into actionable recommendations.
  • Exceptional communication, executive-level presentation, and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong change management skills ability to influence without authority, drive new behaviors, and navigate ambiguity.
  • Effective project manager with the ability to own and deliver initiatives end-to-end with minimal supervision.
  • Financial and analytical acumen with the ability to analyze complex spend categories, evaluate investments, model scenarios, and articulate trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
  • MBA or relevant master's degree is a plus.

What Values You'll Share
  • Customer Obsessed - Building deep empathy for our customers, putting them at the core of our work, and developing strong, long-term relationships with them.
  • Aim High - Always challenging ourselves and others to raise the bar.
  • No Ego - Maintaining a "no job too small" attitude, and an open, inclusive and humble style.
  • One Team - Taking a highly collaborative approach to achieving success.
  • Lift As We Climb - Investing in developing others and helping others around us succeed.
  • Lean & Nimble - Working with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often ambiguous environment.

What We Offer
  • A mission- and values-driven culture and a safe, inclusive environment where you can build, grow and thrive
  • A comprehensive total rewards package that supports your wellness and provides security for SimpliSafers and their families (For more information on our total rewards please click here)
  • Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for your home.
  • Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that bring people together, give opportunities to network, mentor and develop, and advocate for change.

The target annual base pay range for this role is $137,000 to $183,000

This target annual base pay range represents our good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this role. We use a market-based compensation approach to set our target annual base pay ranges and make adjustments annually. We carefully tailor individual compensation packages, including base pay, taking into consideration employees' job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and other relevant business factors.

Beyond base pay, we offer a Total Rewards package that may include participation in our annual bonus program, equity, and other forms of compensation, in addition to a full range of medical, retirement, and lifestyle benefits. More details can be found here.

We're committed to fair and equitable pay practices, as well as pay transparency. We regularly review our programs to ensure they remain competitive and aligned with our values.

About Hellman & Friedman

Goodman Manufacturing is an American company operating as an independent subsidiary of Daikin Group, the world's largest manufacturer of heating, ventilation and air conditioning products and systems. The company, founded in 1975 and based in Waller, Texas, manufactures residential heating and cooling systems. Goodman is located just outside Houston,Texas, in the $417 million Daikin Texas Technology Park.
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