Sr. Sourcing Analyst - Marketing

Sr. Sourcing Analyst

marketing

Role & responsibilities

• Lead contract reviews in close collaboration with Legal, Marketing, and Sourcing teams, ensuring agreements align with business needs and risk frameworks.
• Partner with in-house counsel to navigate complex terms and secure appropriate approvals.
• Work closely with marketing teams to gain a foundational understanding of their goals and ensure procurement strategies support them.
• Align sourcing and contracting efforts with global category strategies and generate regular metrics on spend influence, savings, and vendor utilization.
• Leverage data analysis to provide actionable procurement insights and recommendations.
• Help manage preferred vendor lists and guide teams toward informed, strategic vendor selections.
• Lead quarterly meetings with critical vendors to ensure they are meeting the needs of the business.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in

  Business, Marketing

  , or a related field.

• 5 - 8 years of experience

  in marketing operations, agency management, procurement, or vendor relationship roles.
• Familiarity with marketing categories such as creative services, research, PR, digital marketing, and demand generation agencies.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• High integrity and practical judgment with a solutions-focused mindset.
• Ability to work independently, balance priorities, and build trust across a global organization.
• Be a self-starter with a positive, can-do attitude. Must be willing to work on one’s own initiative and must be focused on achieving goals.
• Sophisticated contract management skills and the ability to understand and negotiate master service agreements, order forms, SOWs, and various other legal documentation.
• Strong communication, relationship building, influencing, persuasion, negotiation, presentation, conflict resolution and business analysis skills.
• This is a global position and will require some limited travel.

• Work Hours

  : 1 PM – 10 PM IST (EMEA shift), with some flexibility to support global time zones.