Location
Sunnyvale, CA | United States
Job description
Company Description
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description This role can be based in San Francisco, Mountain View, Atlanta, Chicago or New York.
At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers
both hybrid and remote work options , meaning you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together, or this role can be performed remotely in most locations in the country of employment.
This position works with many internal cross-functional teams and enterprise, global third-party suppliers. We are looking for an astute, collaborative professional with expertise in source to pay processes, supplier risk management, contract negotiation and project/program management. This professional must have sound judgement, a natural ability to get stuff done quickly and thrives in a fast-paced environment. They will also partner with other members of the Global Strategic Sourcing Governance team.
Responsibilities - Develop, administer, and manage comprehensive, targeted, in-depth assessments, evaluate results, report findings, and manage corrective or management action plans
- Lead Supplier Risk related reporting, internal and external activities
- Identification of supplier risks as part of our current and future assessment process
- Conduct compliance reviews leveraging defined escalation criteria, as needed with risk domains
- Effectively contribute to the Supplier Risk & Compliance Program framework, strategy, and roadmap
- Create, manage, and disseminate communication and reporting
- Support development of new processes across Sourcing Governance Team (i.e., risk scoring methodology)
- Contribute to training initiatives related to process improvements and risk monitoring
- Proactively build excellent working relationships and partner closely with cross-functional teams, and suppliers, to accomplish goals and KPIs; embed a superior customer service attitude
- Contribute to efforts of enhancing and streamlining end-to-end source-to-pay processes. Leading where applicable
- Manage multiple tasks, projects, and timelines with a sense of urgency, ownership and within deadline. Execute ad-hoc projects related to strategic sourcing governance and transformation activities
- Balance priorities, collaborate with leadership and positively motivate teams in a high growth, agile environment while supervising key performance indicators
- Identifying gaps, measuring progress, and balance stakeholder needs
Qualifications Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of professional relatable experience with strategic sourcing experience, contract negotiations, internal & third-party risk
- Demonstratable knowledge and experience with project/program management related to Strategic Sourcing and supplier risk
Preferred Qualifications - Experience managing multiple major and concurrent projects/programs executed through multiple geographic locations
- Supplier risk management scoring development, methodology and assessment monitoring/reporting
- Demonstrated ability to effectively develop, implement, manage, and continuously improve program initiatives and maintain project timelines
- Ability to take ownership, work with tight timelines, quickly adapt to shifting priorities and demands, analytical and problem-solving capabilities, influencing across the enterprise while delivering with a customer first focus
- Communicates in a clear, concise, and timely manner and operates effectively as a team player
- Progressive yet practical approach to strategic sourcing, focused on unlocking value and improving service
- Personable and credible - ability to build productive working relationships across global teams; internal cross-functional teams and external suppliers
- Lead discussions with varying levels of leadership and embrace difficult conversations with ease!
- Ability to influence, empower and align people across a broad variety of job functions
- Proficient in the Microsoft Suite of products; Word, Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, etc
- Project management, data analytics and reporting expertise
Suggested Skills
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Project Management
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $98,000 to $160,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit
Additional Information Equal Opportunity Statement LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: EEO Statement_2020 - Signed.pdf.
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Equal Opportunity Statement
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: Please reference and for more information.
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LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link:
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
This document provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants:
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