Head Of Sourcing

Job Description

We are strengthening our Sourcing leadership with four new Head of Sourcing positions with for each of our four business units. Each position will be responsible for Sourcing in vertical business unit dimension either for Tech Consulting, Banktech, Indtech or Caretech business unit.

In this role, you will act as the primary sourcing partner to the business, ensuring early involvement in commercial decisions, shaping supplier strategy, and delivering measurable business impact. You will play a critical role in advancing our mission to maximize value and minimize waste, while supporting revenue growth, risk mitigation, and operational excellence.

This is a highly independent, leadership role requiring strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and the ability to lead large cross-functional initiatives and supplier ecosystems.

Key responsibilities

Business Partnering & Strategic Leadership

• Act as the primary sourcing interface to the business unit leadership team.
• Drive early involvement in sales, delivery, and planning processes, co-creating a forward-looking sourcing pipeline.
• Build a strategic view of supplier markets, supplier ecosystems, and future capability needs.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and influence decision-making at executive level.

Maximize Value & Minimize Waste

• Deliver measurable cost reduction and cost avoidance across external spend.
• Identify and execute cashflow optimization opportunities, including payment term improvements and P2P compliance.
• Drive also supplier related sales expansion and revenue boot activities.
• Drive commercial optimization initiatives, including:
  • Renegotiation of key contracts
  • Supplier consolidation and demand management
• Apply broad range of advanced sourcing methodologies to maximize business value.

Supplier Strategy & Delivery Enablement

• Define and manage the supplier strategy for the business unit.
• Secure access to key partners and subcontractors to support sales and delivery.
• Lead sourcing of subcontractors for major projects and bids, ensuring competitiveness and availability.
• Manage business unit specific strategic supplier relationships and supplier portfolio.

Risk, Compliance & Governance

• Ensure adherence to sourcing policies, contracting standards, and PO compliance.
• Address regulatory and compliance risks, including specific local requirements (e.g. Poland B2B engagement models).
• Strengthen governance across sourcing processes and supplier engagements.

Sourcing Capability & Leadership Contribution

• Contribute as an active member of the Sourcing leadership team, shaping company-wide sourcing transformation.
• Drive data-driven decision making through analytics, reporting, and market intelligence.
• Lead virtual teams and cross-functional initiatives, ensuring execution of strategic priorities.

Personality & working style

You are an engaging and business minded strategic sourcing leader with 10+ years of experience from strategic sourcing or sales and a proven track record in business partnering, strategic sourcing, business development & negotiations. You are:

• Holistic view to impact– for you sourcing is about maximizing value and minimizing waste, not only about generating procurement savings. Strategic & commercial mindset; you think like CEO.
• Doer who has bias for action & delivering impact – highly structured way-of-working, result oriented approach and independent (self-starter) working style. Ability to work in fast paced and constantly changing environment.
• Influencer with great executive presence & solid business understanding – you have ability to communicate effectively both with executives and sourcing specialists and genuine desire & ability to deliver business impact to the whole company, not only within your own direct area of control.
• Highly analytical & fact-based – you can both see the big picture, identify long term trends and to drill down to drivers for the trends when needed. You never suffer from paralysis by analysis but rather use data to drive real business benefits and bring speed to decision making and execution.
• Result oriented project portfolio manager - Being able to identify new opportunities, create impact & effort prioritized implemen­ta­tion roadmaps and secure successful implementation of these projects.
• Team player who can contribute in leadership teamwork, also in areas outside of own direct responsibilities. Gives help to others and is willing to get help from others. Keeps on learning and developing own capabilities and helps us to grow as team.

Experience & education

• 10+ years in strategic sourcing, procurement, or commercial/sales role.  Proven track result in in business partnering at senior/executive level, supplier relationship management, delivering financial impact, strategic thinking and leading complex cross-functional projects.
• Excellent knowledge on Sourcing best practises, negotiations and building win-win commercial models.
• Minimum 15 years of experience from working in international organizations with complex business models and matrix organization.
• M.Sc from relevant field.
• Fully proficient written and verbal English communication skills.

Additional Information

At Tieto, we believe in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds, genders (m/f/d), and walks of life to join our team, as we believe that this fosters an inspiring workplace and fuels innovation. Our commitment to openness, trust, and diversity is at the heart of our mission to create digital futures that benefit businesses, societies, and humanity.

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