Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead sourcing consultant. This is a senior individual contributor role who leads complex, high-impact strategic sourcing and contracting initiatives across Wells Fargo. The role operates with high autonomy and serves as a trusted advisor to Lines of Business, driving enterprise value through category strategy, supplier management, contract negotiation, and risk governance. The role influences outcomes across multiple business units, manages work of significant complexity and risk, and provides guidance and collaborate with less experienced staff without direct people management responsibility.
In this role, you will:
- Partner with Lines of Business to understand requirements and define sourcing strategies aligned to enterprise goals and regulatory expectations.
Design and execute category strategies that deliver value, cost efficiency, and operational effectiveness across business entities. - Lead complex, high-risk contract negotiations and independently set negotiation strategy and outcomes.
- Manage supplier relationships across the full lifecycle, focusing on cost reduction, performance, and business continuity.
- Drive procure-to-pay, e-business, environmental, and strategic sourcing cost-reduction initiatives.
- Customize and negotiate contract language to proactively address legal, regulatory, market, and operational risks.
- Own all phases of negotiations, from preparation through execution and closure.
- Support mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures through contract reassignment, renegotiation, and risk assessment.
- Review closing agreements to ensure alignment with corporate standards and risk frameworks.
- Lead sourcing initiatives to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and internal policies.
- Act as a subject matter expert on contract risk and supplier management for business partners and Contract Analysts.
- Resolve vendor disputes and manage escalations using sound judgment and negotiation expertise.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to less experienced staff while remaining an individual contributor.
- Lead RFP processes in partnership with business units to support short- and long-term objectives.
- Ensure standard contracts reflect corporate, legal, and regulatory requirements.
- Build strong relationships with executives, vendors, and third parties to drive savings and service improvements.
- Coordinate sourcing efforts across business entities to ensure alignment and enterprise value.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of Sourcing, Procurement experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
What We Do
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a leading financial services company that has approximately $2.1 trillion in assets. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 33 on Fortune’s 2025 rankings of America’s largest corporations. Our technology professionals drive innovation, information security, and big data analytics while maintaining a network that handles more than 12 billion customer interactions a year. Join us! Are you looking for more? Find it here. At Wells Fargo, we're more than a financial services leader – we’re a global trailblazer committed to driving innovation, empowering communities, and helping our customers succeed. We believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job – it’s about finding all of the elements to help you thrive, in one place. Living the Well Life means you’re supported in life, not just work. It means having robust benefits, competitive compensation, and programs designed to help you find work-life balance and well-being. You’ll be rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow. And we’re recognized for it – Wells Fargo once again ranked in the top three – making us the #1 financial services employer – on the 2025 LinkedIn Top Companies list of best workplaces “to grow your career” in the U.S. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic. © 2026 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC.
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