Job Overview
The Senior Manager - Sourcing Center of Excellence plays a pivotal role in advancing procurement performance by shaping and executing the strategy for the Sourcing Center of Excellence (CoE). This position offers the opportunity to drive scale, consistency, and best-practice processes across the Source-to-Pay landscape. This role will lead enterprise procurement excellence through process governance, supplier performance and risk frameworks, RFQ and productivity operating models, and sourcing capability building that improve savings, visibility, compliance, and decision quality. In addition, this role shapes the procurement data governance model, including taxonomy, master data standards, and reporting hierarchy, while helping ensure timely visibility into spend, price, and performance metrics. The Annual Operating Plan will be informed through the productivity forecast process managed by the CoE. This role allows for ideation and champion initiatives that strengthen procurement effectiveness through analytics, process standardization, technology enablement, and capability building, all while supporting enterprise priorities.
A Day In The Life
Every day at Hubbell is different, and this role offers the opportunity to make an impact in many ways. On any given day, you will:
• Advising Procurement leadership on organization design, strategy, and key initiatives
• Sponsoring initiatives that improve procurement productivity and performance, and communicating results to leadership
• Ensuring the CoE provides analytical support and domain expertise to enable category strategies and sourcing decisions
• Developing KPI frameworks and aligning metric definitions with Operations, IT, and Finance
• Integrating procurement analytics into the Annual Operating Plan by defining and aligning category-level material cost targets
• Owning the evolution and structure of spend data cubes to ensure consistent, reliable analytics and reporting across the enterprise
• Establishing clear roles, responsibilities, and handoffs across procurement through RACI development, standardization, and training
• Leading the supplier performance management framework, including supplier scorecard design, supplier segmentation, supplier financial risk monitoring, KPI governance, and QBR templates/playbooks.Partnering with IT and the greater Operations community to shape the procurement technology strategy and roadmap
• Managing third-party procurement tool providers including performance, service levels, and enhancements
• Deploying a consistent enterprise-wide category management and sourcing process
• Driving adoption of best-practice procurement processes and methodologies
• Standardizing supplier agreements, RFX templates, bid analysis, and project deliverables
• Managing the enterprise RFQ operating model, including intake process, templates, tracker, e-RFQ tools, training, and governance for centralized RFQ support.
• Implementing mechanisms to track compliance with procurement policies and processes
• Developing procurement capability frameworks and talent strategies
• Supporting training programs (e.g., Should Cost, negotiation, onboarding) and capability building
• Coaching and mentoring CoE team members to build organizational capability
What will help you thrive in this role?
Bachelor's degree required
Strong financial and analytical capabilities
Ability to translate financial planning requirements into procurement category strategies and measurable cost targets
Strong understanding of data architecture, analytics models, and reporting structures in procurement environments
Experience building and deploying enterprise technology roadmaps, including change management and user adoption
Demonstrated capability in operating model design, including role clarity, governance structures, and process ownership frameworks
Ability to conceive, plan, and execute strategic programs
Strong program and transformation management skills
Executive presence and effective communication across all levels
Ability to influence stakeholders and drive change in a global organization
Highly self-motivated and able to operate with limited supervision
Functional expertise in Source-to-Pay, supplier management, commodity risk, and procurement operations
Experience and Qualifications
Strong interpersonal and communication skills across all levels of the organization
Deep expertise in procurement functions, including:
o Source-to-Pay processes
o Supplier management
o Category Strategy Creation
o Commodity risk management
o Strategic planning and financial reporting
o Stakeholder and people leadership
The above summary of position responsibilities and requirements is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of duties, skills, efforts, physical requirements, or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal position elements essential for making decisions related to position performance, employee development, and compensation.
