Strategic Sourcing Lead

• Drive complex RFx events from ideation through contract execution, ensuring strategic alignment and risk mitigation.
• Act as a subject matter expert, influencing sourcing decisions and advising senior stakeholders.
• Identify and implement innovative sourcing solutions and operational improvements.
Cross-Functional Engagement
• Serve as a key liaison between business units and Supply Chain Management, ensuring alignment and transparency.
• Lead steering committees and governance forums to communicate progress and strategic outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to optimize performance and value delivery.
Tactical Excellence
• Negotiate high-value, complex contracts with a focus on risk management and compliance.
• Oversee contract lifecycle management, including renewals and pipeline prioritization.
• Support broader Supply Chain Management processes and enterprise initiatives as needed.

What to Expect in This Role
• Daily: Manage multiple strategic projects across diverse business areas, engaging with senior stakeholders and driving outcomes.
• Weekly: Facilitate project progress, lead governance meetings, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Monthly/Quarterly: Present insights and recommendations to executive leadership, ensuring visibility and alignment with corporate strategy.
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Key Criteria for Success
• Proven ability to influence and communicate effectively at all organizational levels, including executive leadership.
• Proficiency in leveraging technology platforms-including ERP, Source-to-Pay (S2P) systems (Ariba preferred), and risk management tools-to enable sourcing strategies.
• Deep understanding of financial services industry products and services.
• Advanced experience sourcing technology solutions (software, SaaS, infrastructure, network services).
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills with a track record of delivering measurable results.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Job Description

• Researches and negotiates our most significant, strategic and complex sourcing initiatives related to major organizational contracts and procurements. These initiatives typically involve more time due to complexity and require high levels of strategic agility often interacting with multiple levels of executives across multiple lines of business.
• Prepares the most complex purchasing assignments having the most extensive business requirements and selection criteria.
• Consults with vendors to obtain optimum pricing and availability information. Researches and negotiates highly complex organizational purchases.
• Negotiates with vendors to obtain optimum quality, cost, terms, etc., in conjunction with contract construction to effectuate the potentially complex development of enterprise agreements
• Develops and monitors effectiveness of purchasing strategies and effectiveness; initiates improvements as necessary.

PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:

• Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred Skills
Procurement, Purchasing Management, Sourcing Strategies, Supplier Management, Supplier Selection, Vendor Relationships, Vendor Risk Management

Competencies
Accuracy and Attention to Detail, Effective Communications, Industry Knowledge, Negotiating, Process Management

Work Experience
Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 5+ years of industry-relevant experience. Specific certifications are often required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education
Bachelors

Certifications
No Required Certification(s)

Licenses
No Required License(s)

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.

In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 8 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs, including benefits for full time and part-time employees, visit Your PNC Total Rewards.

Disability Accommodations Statement

If an accommodation is required to participate in the application process, please contact us via email at AccommodationRequest@pnc.com. Please include "accommodation request" in the subject line title and be sure to include your name, the job ID, and your preferred method of contact in the body of the email. Emails not related to accommodation requests will not receive responses. Applicants may also call 877-968-7762 and say "Workday" for accommodation assistance. All information provided will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

At PNC we foster an inclusive and accessible workplace. We provide reasonable accommodations to employment applicants and qualified individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to perform the essential functions of their positions.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

PNC provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other categories protected by law.

This position is subject to the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) and, for any registered role, the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (SAFE Act) and/or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which prohibit the hiring of individuals with certain criminal history.

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Client-provided location(s): Pittsburgh, PA

Job ID: PNC-R205840

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-12-04T18:43:32