Consulting and Corporate Services Sourcing Manager
ManulifeJoin us as our Consulting and Corporate Services Sourcing Manager and bring your sourcing expertise to a role where your negotiations and insights help shape better business decisions. You’ll drive Consulting and Corporate Services sourcing initiatives from intake and strategy through negotiation, award and contract execution. Working closely with business stakeholders, Legal, Risk, Compliance and
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Finance, you’ll deliver strong commercial outcomes while managing third-party risk. Beyond individual deals, you’ll use benchmarking, analytics and executive-ready materials to improve decision-making, streamline cycle times and bring greater consistency to the portfolio.
Responsibilities:
• Lead cross-functional teams to execute medium- to large-value, complex sourcing and contracting projects across Consulting and Corporate Services categories, including renewals and amendments, tracking key expirations and monitoring spend against approved budgets and SOW limits.
• Develop PxQ baselines and contract analysis, set sourcing strategy, lead negotiations and recommend suppliers, evaluating commercial models and rate cards for best value; shape business requirements and scopes of work, promote disciplined SOW practices and build inclusive and sustainable (ESG) sourcing considerations into sourcing events.
• Negotiate commercial terms in contracts and proposals (MSAs, SOWs, rate cards, change orders) and work with Legal, Risk and Finance SMEs to finalize documents; progress initiatives through the Ivalua intake-to-contract workflow and maintain clean deal documentation, including contract review/redlining in Sirion.
• Manage relationships with business partners and project owners to maintain momentum, surface blockers early and align on tradeoffs and approvals; partner with Vendor Governance to support supplier performance management, including service levels, business reviews and issue resolution.
• Conduct benchmarking and opportunity assessments (e.g., rate card and role-level benchmarking, deal structures, demand management) and provide business intelligence to strengthen sourcing strategies, negotiation positions and portfolio prioritization; define and track key metrics and dashboards covering pipeline, cycle time, savings and cost avoidance.
• Create executive-ready presentations that synthesize deal status, risks, tradeoffs and improvement opportunities, and contribute to AI-enabled procurement improvements, such as AI-assisted contract review, faster RFx drafting and better market intelligence, by helping shape requirements, pilots and adoption.
Qualifications
• 6+ years of progressive procurement or strategic sourcing experience, including Consulting/professional services and/or Corporate Services sourcing, direct negotiations and contracting.
• Ability to lead cross-functional sourcing initiatives and influence without direct authority, supported by strong commercial, analytical, market assessment and negotiation strategy skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication and executive presentation skills; advanced Excel and PowerPoint proficiency, with Power BI or similar analytics tools an asset.
• Working knowledge of procurement and contract lifecycle workflows and professional services agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, rate cards and change orders; experience in management consulting, internal consulting, PMO or sourcing within regulated financial services or insurance.
• Experience supporting AI procurement, including tooling evaluations, contract addenda workflows and AI-assisted sourcing; sourcing AI consulting and advisory services, such as strategy, implementation and data advisory, is an asset.
• Post-secondary degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance or a related field, or equivalent experience; SCMP, CPSM, CIPS or a similar professional designation is an asset.
When you join our team:
• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where we