Director, Corporate Services and Responsible Sourcing

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The Team

Strategic Sourcing and Procurement at Autodesk is on a transformation journey to build a modern, data driven organization that delivers enterprise value with speed, insight, and strong governance. We are strengthening category management, advancing digital enablement, and evolving our operating model to scale impact across a complex global supplier ecosystem.

This role sits on the Sourcing and Procurement Leadership Team, helping shape organizational strategy, elevate sourcing maturity, and build capabilities that support Autodesk’s growth, innovation, and ESG commitments.

Position Overview

The Director of Corporate Services and Responsible Sourcing is a senior leadership role responsible for advancing Autodesk’s sourcing maturity, leading high impact category strategies, and enabling consistent execution across a global services portfolio.

Reporting to the Vice President of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement, this role leads a global team responsible for Professional Services, Marketing, and Human Resources sourcing, representing approximately $600M dollars in annual spend. The Director also provides strategic ownership of Autodesk’s Responsible Sourcing program, delivering outcomes through a dedicated Program Manager and close partnership with ESG, Legal, Finance, and Compliance teams.

This leader serves as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, balancing enterprise value creation, supplier risk management, and stakeholder experience while helping transform how Autodesk engages its third-party ecosystem.

Responsibilities

People Leadership and Enablement

• Lead, coach, and develop a global team of category and sourcing professionals
• Establish clear strategy, priorities, and success metrics for the Corporate Services portfolio and Autodesk’s Responsible Sourcing program
• Create clarity across roles, decision rights, and operating cadence to enable effective execution
• Build strong category management and strategic sourcing capabilities across the organization
• Foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement

Category Strategy and Value Delivery

• Own category strategy across Professional Services, Marketing, and Human Resources
• Develop multi-year strategies grounded in business demand, market intelligence, and financial objectives
• Sponsor complex negotiations and commercial strategies focused on total value
• Drive measurable outcomes including cost optimization, demand management, and supplier rationalization
• Ensure consistent application of category management standards and best practices

Strategic Business Partnership

• Act as a strategic commercial advisor to senior leaders across Corporate Functions
• Influence sourcing approaches, investment decisions, and supplier strategies
• Partner with Finance Business Partners to align sourcing priorities with planning, forecasting, and long-range outlooks
• Provide executive insight on supplier markets, cost drivers, and emerging risks

Responsible Sourcing Program Leadership

• Provide strategic oversight of Autodesk’s Responsible Sourcing program
• Set program direction, priorities, and success metrics aligned to ESG commitments
• Ensure responsible sourcing expectations are embedded within category and supplier strategies
• Monitor progress through executive reporting and dashboards

Supplier Relationship Management

• Sponsor strategic supplier relationships across Corporate Services categories
• Establish governance models and performance scorecards
• Drive accountability through executive engagement and quarterly business reviews
• Enable supplier innovation, performance improvement, and risk mitigation

Transformation and Maturity Building

• Serve as a member of the Sourcing and Procurement Leadership Team, shaping the organization’s strategic roadmap
• Lead cross functional initiatives that improve sourcing speed, decision quality, and stakeholder experience
• Partner with Procurement Operations and Finance to strengthen visibility to demand, pipeline, and supplier economics
• Support adoption of digital enablement and analytics to improve transparency and execution velocity

Qualifications

• Twelve or more years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or commercial leadership
• Five or more years leading global teams
• Demonstrated success managing complex services categories at enterprise scale
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with advanced negotiation experience
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders in matrixed environments
• Experience operating in transformation or maturity build organizations
• Excellent executive communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or related field
• Ability to travel fifteen to twenty percent

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading Responsible or Sustainable Sourcing programs
• Technology or SaaS industry experience
• MBA or advanced degree
• Strong analytics orientation with experience translating insights into action

About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $145,000 and $260,150. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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