About this Senior Sourcing Analyst role at Coinbase
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As a Senior Sourcing Analyst, you'll join the Source to Pay (S2P) organization within the Finance team and lead strategic sourcing across Coinbase's third-party services portfolio, spanning categories like CX BPO, marketing, professional services, and corporate functions. You'll independently own a broad pipeline of high-impact sourcing engagements, drive complex negotiations, and partner cross-functionally to deliver savings, reduce risk, and improve how Coinbase manages third-party spend.
What you'll do:
- Own end-to-end sourcing for complex services engagements across categories such as CX BPO, consulting, marketing, people/benefits, and compliance, from intake through RFx, evaluation, negotiation, and contract execution.
- Lead commercial negotiations on pricing, SLAs, renewals, termination rights, and key business terms, partnering with Legal, Security/TPRM, P2P, and business stakeholders to structure deals that reduce financial, legal, and operational risk.
- Drive category-level insights by analyzing spend patterns, supplier concentration, demand signals, and market dynamics to identify consolidation, standardization, and improved commercial outcomes.
- Build business cases and decision support materials that articulate trade-offs, risks, and recommended actions for stakeholders and leadership.
- Design and adopt AI-enabled and automation-driven workflows to offload administrative work such as intake triage, first-draft artifact creation, and status reporting, freeing capacity for strategy, negotiation, and stakeholder alignment.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or a related function, with demonstrated success sourcing services categories such as BPO, marketing, professional services, or corporate shared services.
- Proven ability to independently manage complex sourcing projects and multi-stakeholder negotiations from intake through contract execution, delivering measurable savings and improved contract terms.
- Experience performing quantitative analysis on vendor proposals, pricing models, benchmarks, and spend data to inform sourcing strategy and supplier selection.
- Familiarity with S2P systems (e.g., Zip, Ironclad) and comfort working with contracts, redlines, SOWs, and order forms in partnership with Legal.
- Track record of operating effectively in an async-first environment, writing clearly structured recommendations, surfacing risks early, and driving timely decisions across cross-functional partners.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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