Director, Business Services Sourcing

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your procurement experience to a world-class company that is market-leading or both content and technology? If yes, we’re looking for you.

Join our team! You will be part of Global Services, which comprises procurement, real estate, and facilities management functions. We are responsible for delivering value by providing safe, efficient, and effective procurement and real estate services to Thomson Reuters businesses and functional operations.  Our overarching mission is to ensure our colleagues spend less time and energy on ordering Services, ensuring their primary focus is building great content and products that delight TR customers and grow TR business.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Director, Business Services Sourcing , you will:

• Develop a value proposition for the Business Services Sourcing team through strategizing approaches to address tail spend more holistically and engaging with the category teams supporting the strategic sourcing plans.
• Lead the Business Services Sourcing team to execute day-to-day operations, including supervision, management and optimization of all activities.
• Participate in the leadership and development of the Global Business Services Sourcing function. Provide expert counsel and support to business and other stakeholders. Develop and implement sourcing strategies, which delivers sustainable reductions in Thomson Reuters cost base and significant improvements in the quality of services being delivered by our suppliers.
• Drive ongoing improvements in sourcing capability and maturity at Thomson Reuters by identification and development of key talents and by implementation of best-practice sourcing methodology and standards.
• Develop saving pipelines containing the portfolio of key initiatives which deliver the Tail spend management strategy aimed at optimizing cost, improving user experience, driving transparency, contract compliance and increasing efficiencies.
• Build and develop the Business Services Sourcing team, which can provide seamless support to the category teams and strategic sourcing plans. Provide expert commercial and market insight to business stakeholders in order help shape and optimize Thomson Reuters sourcing strategy. Implement the sourcing deals by identifying, qualifying, developing and negotiating strategic sourcing initiatives to achieve the best possible outcomes.
• Help develop the annual project pipeline, such that Global Procurement contributes effectively to Thomson Reuters financial planning process.
• Rationalize the supplier landscape and reduce fragmentation in the spend base in order to enhance strategic relationships and drive commercial efficiency. Implement a best-practice sourcing methodology and sourcing governance schema which provides greater visibility and control of strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Continuously improve the sourcing methodology and continuously develop the sourcing capability at Thomson Reuters in order to consistently achieve market-leading outcomes.
• Build and enhance relationships with suppliers in partnership with the vendor and service delivery management teams in order to achieve exceptional levels of service quality whilst maintaining best-in-class commercial terms and conditions.
• Drive and foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration and entrepreneurialism within Procurement which is replicated by suppliers.
• Develop team members and grow their careers across Global Procurement.

About You

You’re a fit for the role if your background includes:

• Bachelors Degree.
• Fluent English.
• Leadership, Governance and Functional design
• Significant experience in solutioning and implementing a Procurement Operations and Sourcing model that delivers sourcing and buying services to a global business.
• Expert ability to identify, implement and manage digital solutions that support the company’s Digital Procurement vision.
• Ability to ensure the effectiveness of the organization through establishing the organizational structure, digital tools, processes and governance.
• Proven track record of delivering significant and sustainable cost reductions through effective implementation of versatile strategies focused on managing non-strategic / Tail spend.
• Expert sourcing practitioner, with extensive experience in developing & executing sourcing strategies across different categories, sound negotiation skills and a demonstrated track record of working ethically to achieve excellent outcomes.
• Expert analytics and ability to develop coherent and high-quality sourcing collateral including internal / external analysis of spend, business case, contract summaries, and RFx materials.
• Significant experience of successful development and negotiation of sourcing agreements.
• Sound knowledge of the sourcing marketplace and trends in the industry including the ability to assess the impact of change in the context of the sourcing strategy.
• Strong experience in coaching and mentoring, helping to develop an Operational Sourcing team that has well-rounded knowledge of multiple Source to Pay capabilities and cross-category skills sets.
• Ability to effectively plan, organize and manage resources; and to lead change across the organization to achieve organization-specific goals (only applicable for People Manager position)
• Strong ability to drive high performance in Operation Sourcing organization by enabling effective collaboration with Category teams and bringing efficiencies in managing the spend holistically.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, gravitas and credibility working with senior executives.
• Excellent (external and internal) relationship management and cross-functional leadership skills

Location: CDMX

What’s in it For You?  

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through: 

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more 
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: company-wide Mental Health Days Off; Headspace app subscription; and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing 
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking. 
• Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact 
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we have never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

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As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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