Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist, Corporate Services & Support

Pinterest Pinterest · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · Accounting

This role is for a Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist at Pinterest, focusing on corporate services like Workplace/Facilities and Legal. The specialist will manage the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle, including RFPs, negotiations, contracting support, and supplier management. A key aspect of the role involves leveraging AI-enabled tools to enhance sourcing outcomes, such as accelerating analysis, drafting, and improving operational efficiency, while maintaining governance and confidentiality. The role requires strong analytical, negotiation, and program management skills, with a preference for experience in high-growth environments and familiarity with procurement systems. While the company emphasizes AI's role, this specific position is not directly building AI models but rather using AI tools to optimize procurement processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle for corporate services, including Workplace/Facilities and Legal categories, as well as intake, scoping, market analysis, RFP/RFQ execution, supplier selection, negotiation strategy, contracting support, and ongoing supplier management.
  2. Act as a trusted advisor, work to build strong relationships, translating business requirements into sourcing strategies, and guiding stakeholders through tradeoffs (cost, risk, timeline, service levels).
  3. Lead competitive bidding events (RFPs) and commercial negotiations for significant-spend projects (e.g., facilities services, design & construction support, workplace operations, food services, real estate-related services, legal services/vendors, and other G&A services as needed).
  4. Develop pricing and performance models (global rate cards, SLAs/KPIs, incentives/credits) that drive measurable outcomes and accountability.
  5. Deliver savings and value through cost-reduction initiatives (consolidation, re-bids, renegotiations, demand management, and process improvements), while ensuring continuity of critical operations.

Skills

Required

  • 6–10 years of strategic sourcing/procurement experience, ideally across Workplace/Facilities services and/or professional services (Legal a plus); strong preference for experience in high-growth or fast-paced environments.
  • Demonstrated success leading RFPs, complex negotiations, and supplier management, with a track record of savings, cost avoidance, and/or measurable value creation.
  • Strong working knowledge of commercial contracting concepts (SOW/MSA structure, rate cards, SLAs, renewals, termination, liability/risk tradeoffs) and comfort partnering with Legal to move deals to signature.
  • Strong analytical skills (Google Sheets/Excel); ability to build clear business cases and pricing comparisons.
  • Excellent written/verbal communication; ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across competing priorities.
  • Highly organized program manager with strong judgment, follow-through, and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • AI fluency and practical application: “default to automation” mindset, comfort using AI/automation to improve sourcing productivity and quality (e.g., spend analysis, supplier research, RFP drafting, summary synthesis, risk flagging), with the ability to validate outputs and handle sensitive information appropriately.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with procurement end-to-end systems and contracting tools (e.g., Zip and/or other intake tools, Oracle or equivalent P2P, Ironclad or other CLM, supplier management systems) is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI fluency and practical application: “default to automation” mindset, comfort using AI/automation to improve sourcing productivity and quality (e.g., spend analysis, supplier research, RFP drafting, summary synthesis, risk flagging), with the ability to validate outputs and handle sensitive information appropriately.