Strategic Sourcing Analyst
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As a Strategic Sourcing Analyst at Tether, you drive end-to-end sourcing events, commercial negotiations, and contract structuring across key technology spend categories including IT infrastructure, software, IT services, and staffing agencies. You act as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders, owning the entire sourcing lifecycle from initial market analysis and RFP execution to final contract drafting and vendor onboarding, ensuring optimal value and mitigated risk for the business.
What you'll do
- Lead single-source negotiations and competitive RFPs across multiple technology and services spend categories
- Negotiate and secure favorable tier discounts, pricing models, and commercial terms with key technology and service vendors
- Structure complex Statements of Work (SOWs), ensuring that agency fee disbursements are strictly tied to measurable delivery milestones and performance metrics
- Standardize contractor rate cards and implement labor caps across all staff augmentation and external consulting engagements
- Conduct comprehensive market analysis to inform sourcing strategies and benchmark pricing
- Draft, review, and refine contract terms in close collaboration with Legal, Security, and Finance teams
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, aligning sourcing strategies with broader organizational goals
About Tether
Tether is a global financial platform pioneering reserve-backed tokens across blockchains. The company operates Tether Finance, home to USDT, the world's most trusted stablecoin, alongside digital asset tokenization services; Tether Power, delivering sustainable energy solutions for Bitcoin mining; Tether Data, advancing AI and peer-to-peer technology including KEET, a flagship app for secure data sharing; and Tether Education, democratizing access to digital learning. The team works remotely worldwide.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Tether has 20 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 14 in Research, 3 in Engineering and 3 in Security. Nearly all of them are fully remote. 14 were posted in the last 7 days.
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