Strategic Sourcing Manager - Business Services & Marketing

Strategic Sourcing Manager - Business Services & Marketing Full-time Recruitment type: Permanent Company Description Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora,你好, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point. About the Team Our mission is simple: maximise the value of every dollar spent while enabling teams to move fast and build what's next.

As Canva scales toward its next phase of growth, the Strategic Sourcing team plays a critical role in shaping supplier partnerships, strengthening commercial discipline, and building scalable contracting experiences that reduce friction and increase delight. We operate as a strategic extension of the business, balancing speed, value, and risk, and continuously raising the bar on commercial outcomes across all spend categories.

The Marketing & Business Services Sourcing team sits at the intersection of Marketing, People, and Finance. We cover a wide and genuinely interesting portfolio, from Media and Marketing agency partnerships to professional services, contingent labour, and employee experience. We're a team that takes quality seriously, builds trusted relationships, and genuinely enjoys what we do.

What You'd Be Doing In This Role As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA, but we like to think that's all part of the fun. This will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, and this will likely evolve.

As a Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager in our Marketing & Business Services Sourcing team, you'll pursue the highest-impact opportunities across a broad portfolio spanning professional and consulting services, staffing & labour, BPO, payment gateways, workplace and facilities, insurance, and system integration, with occasional support into marketing categories as priorities shift. You'll operate with significant autonomy, but the real mark of this role is building: redesigning how sourcing operates across these categories, setting up new processes and pathways, and reviewing the way we work. It sits at the intersection of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, and calls for someone who can drive outcomes independently while bringing genuine commercial depth to a portfolio that spans some of the most varied spend categories in the function.

At the Moment, This Role Is Focused On Owning commercial strategy and sourcing execution across a complex portfolio of indirect spend categories, including professional and consulting services, staffing and labour, BPO, system integration, strategy and advisory engagements or related indirect categories such as Marketing Rolling up your sleeves through an initial groundwork phase, the first 6–12 months carry real operational volume and process clean-up, which our ZIP AI agent will increasingly absorb, freeing you to shift toward new category, more and more targeted and strategic work over time Leading sophisticated negotiations with external providers, including management consultancies, outsourcing partners, professional services firms, and contingent workforce suppliers, with clear commercial positions and leverage strategies Embedding with senior business stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, shape supplier decisions, and provide commercial counsel before commitments are made Building and maintaining category strategies that connect short-term sourcing activity to longer-term business outcomes Proactively managing contract pipelines, renewal cycles, and spend visibility across your categories Identifying opportunities for supplier consolidation, cost optimisation, and improved commercial terms through data-led analysis Bringing market benchmarks and external insight into internal decisions to sharpen Canva's commercial positioning Partnering with Legal, Finance, and Risk to balance speed, value,