Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing - AI
EchoStarㅤ: EchoStar depends on disciplined, reliable, and strategically managed supply chains to drive innovation in satellite, mobile, and video technologies. The Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager – AI addresses the need for scalable procurement leadership by building, configuring, and supervising autonomous AI agents across the source-to-pay lifecycle. Serving as the critical human-in-the-loop, this role balances automated RFP execution, spend analysis, and bid evaluation with high-touch strategic negotiation, supplier relationship management, and governance oversight. Through intelligent automation, this position solves capacity limitations while maintaining total cost of ownership optimization, supplier accountability, and corporate compliance. Company Summary: EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products. Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV. Department Summary: Our investment in the future needs those with an eye on the bottom line, and our Financial organization plays a vital role in supporting our game-changing ideas with creative solutions to complex problems. Team members have the unique opportunity to explore diverse business lines, gaining hands-on experience in various facets of finance, including accounting, audit and supply chain management. Job Duties and Responsibilities: Complete implementation and cross-functional integration of the autonomous RFP tool, achieving 20% autonomous sourcing event execution by end of 2027 Deliver a 10% weighted average cost savings or avoidance across completed sourcing events by deploying AI agents for spend analysis, market benchmarking, and scenario modeling Accelerate execution and expand sourcing capacity through automated RFx drafting, continuous bid analysis, and parallel event orchestration Direct and refine AI agent workflows, maintaining high accuracy standards while establishing a three-tier human-in-the-loop governance framework Enhance stakeholder and supplier satisfaction by streamlining communication channels, establishing automated status tracking, and incorporating AI-researched insights into agreements Free up departmental bandwidth to focus on high-value, strategic supplier relationships, innovation partnerships, and complex negotiations Skills, Experience and Requirements: Ability to design, configure, and supervise autonomous AI agents for sourcing workflows while establishing operational guardrails and escalation thresholds Deep expertise in interrogating AI-generated recommendations, spend classifications, and bid comparisons to ensure auditability and accuracy Strategic prompt engineering capabilities to frame complex sourcing scenarios, TCO models, and risk parameters effectively for AI models Critical experience managing technically complex direct and indirect supplier spend categories within high-technology and IT supply chains Proven governance design capabilities to enforce decision-rights frameworks across automated, human-approved, and human-led sourcing tiers Comprehensive process discipline to map, document, standardize, and continuously refine procurement workflows and agent performance metrics Additional Qualifications: Master's Degree (MBA or related field) Familiarity with agentic AI procurement platforms such as GEP, Jaggaer, Coupa, Globality, Zycus, or Mercanis Experience with AI governance frameworks or human-in-the-loop workflow design Knowledge of procurement technology architecture, spend analytics, and AI integration layers Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview. Visa sponsorship not available for this position Minimum Requirements: Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field Minimum Experience: 7 years of progressive expe…