About this Staff Strategic Sourcing Manager - Logistics role at Ōura
Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.
We are looking for a Staff Strategic Sourcing Manager, Logistics to own sourcing strategy, supplier management, and commercial execution across key logistics spend categories that materially impact Oura’s cost of goods sold, with an initial focus on logistics, warehousing, freight, returns, and related business operations spend.
This is a high-impact individual contributor role within the Sourcing team. The person in this role will bring strategic sourcing discipline, strong commercial judgment, and cross-functional influence to drive measurable savings and create long-term supplier strategies.
This role works closely with Logistics, Finance, Operations, Program Management, and external supplier partners to ensure that Oura’s logistics sourcing decisions support service levels, scalability, and total landed cost objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Own sourcing strategy and commercial execution across logistics, warehousing, freight, returns, and related categories
- Lead RFQ, RFP, and competitive bid processes, including supplier selection, pricing negotiations, SLA alignment, contract terms, and multi-year commercial agreements
- Deliver measurable cost reductions across freight, 3PLs, and returns providers through supplier benchmarking, cost modeling, and vendor negotiations
- Build and maintain dashboards, cost models, and reporting workstreams that track spend, savings, supplier performance, and key cost drivers across the portfolio
- Establish KPIs and supplier scorecards covering cost, service, quality, on-time performance, and responsiveness, and lead regular business reviews to drive accountability
- Partner with Logistics, Finance, Operations, and Program teams to align sourcing decisions with service requirements, launch timelines, forecast changes, and business priorities
- Strengthen supplier governance and contract management to improve decision-making and operational execution and build long-term strategic partnerships
- Standardize sourcing processes, commercial documentation, and supplier management practices to improve scalability
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field
- 8-10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, or supply chain, with meaningful ownership of indirect spend categories
- Proven track record in supplier negotiations, RFQ/RFP management, and contracting
- Excellent analytical, financial modeling, and project management skills with the ability to develop tools and dashboards for reporting workstreams
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority
- Experience sourcing logistics, freight, warehousing, 3PL, returns, or related operational services
- Mastery and knowledge of global trade compliance with the ability to integrate cost tradeoffs into a cohesive sourcing strategy
Preferred:
- Experience operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving processes and shifting priorities
- Experience in consumer electronics, medical device, consumer product, or similarly complex physical product environments
- Familiarity with contract manufacturing and global supply chain networks including knowledge of tariffs, regulatory requirements, Incoterms, and Freight Forwarding
- Experience managing suppliers across North America, Europe, and Asia
- Knowledge of procurement, ERP, and supply chain systems
What You’ll Bring
- A strategic mindset with the ability to balance cost, quality, and speed
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and creating structure in areas that do not yet have mature ownership or standardized processes
- Passion for building scalable sourcing systems and supplier partnerships that enable world-class manufacturing performance
- Strong judgment in balancing short-term business needs with long-term supplier strategy
- A collaborative, team-first approach and the ability to lead through influence
Benefits
At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- An Oura Ring of your own during your tenure
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off *prorated
- Paid sick leave
Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
- Region 1 $198,050- $230,000
- Region 2 $180,000- $210,000
- Region 3 $169,150- $190,000
A recruiter can determine your Region based on your US location.
We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).
Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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