Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager (energy/utilities)

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The Position

Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager (energy/utilities)

This is a hybrid role (3 days onsite, 2 offsite).

Join our team and lead the transformation of procurement through collaboration and strategic business partnering!

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships.  Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

This role can be based in any of these locations (Indianapolis, IN, Tucson, AZ, Branchburg, NJ, Carlsbad, CA, Santa Clara, CA or in Pleasanton, CA). Senior Utilities Procurement Manager will be the official title.

The Opportunity:

This role sits within the Indirect Procurement Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. This group is comprised of many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality, including Research & Development, Commercial and Corporate Services, Digital & Technology, and Facilities. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

As a Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager (energy/utilities), you will bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and a strategic focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Using your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise in a specific category or spend areas and procurement overall, you will proactively identify and drive strategies and approaches for managing and sourcing third-party spend requirements. You can also play the role of Category strategy owner in charge of driving, coordinating and signing the category strategy.

You will collaborate with internal procurement (such as Customer Excellence, Insights, Analytics, Contracting, etc.) and business stakeholders to build and implement comprehensive category sourcing and spend management strategies that are aligned to business needs and functional objectives.  Work closely with other team members, as a peer coach, project, or workstream lead, to identify opportunities to aggregate customer demand, drive buying channel automation, deliver on day-to-day activities, and provide capacity, expertise, and oversight to productivity and other customer-oriented projects/solutions.

You will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general business requirements, including but not limited to:

• You are a Category and Sourcing subject matter expert in Facilities and Utilities (Energy/Utilities focus), conducting market and internal analysis to develop strategies, best practices, and guidance on tactical plans for how Roche should source and negotiate for third-party goods and services in order to satisfy stakeholder requirements and maximize the value for Roche.

• You are a Procurement delivery practitioner delivering and executing: 

  • Strategic Sourcing & Negotiation: Lead and execute competitive sourcing for power and natural gas in deregulated markets. Familiarity with retail power and gas products and utility tariff structures.  Conduct strategic contract negotiation with retailers and utilities to secure optimal pricing, terms, and supply reliability.

  • Market Analysis & Planning: Maintain a strong understanding of power and gas markets and infrastructure (ISOs/RTOs). Apply market intelligence to support long-term campus planning, capital projects, and utility infrastructure upgrades.

  • Risk & Financial Management: Develop and implement risk management strategies to mitigate energy price volatility. Oversee financial processes, including budgeting, forecasting, and invoice validation for all utility expenditures.

  • Supplier Management: Manage critical supplier relationships with energy retailers and utilities, ensuring high performance, service reliability, and collaborative problem-solving.

  • Sustainability & Compliance: Procure and manage environmental commodities (e.g., RECs). Support corporate targets by applying working familiarity with GHG protocol, SBTi, and RE100 standards to all procurement decisions, driving the company's decarbonization strategy.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business or a related discipline.

• 7+ years of procurement experience in strategic sourcing, global category management, complex procurement contracting, and operational category efficiency projects.

• Solid leadership experience, extensive procurement experience and deep specific category knowledge in one or more categories.

• Experience in procurement systems and processes.

• Deep knowledge and experience in the Facilities and Utilities, especially Utilities commodity areas and knowledge of adjacent commodities.

• Skills in project management.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Indianapolis, Indiana is $96,500 and $179,300 of hiring range.  Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.  A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.  This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

 

 

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Santa Clara. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

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