What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager - Professional Services Sourcing position at Ally?
Ally and Your Career
Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?
Work Schedule: Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.
The Opportunity
This role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on how Ally engages, sources, and manages its professional services partners. The Professional Services Sourcing and Category Management Manager will help define the strategic vision for the category and play an essential role in supporting enterprise-wide performance.
The position offers the opportunity to design forward-thinking category strategies, lead high-impact sourcing initiatives, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals. Additionally, the successful candidate will help drive efficiency, enhance supplier performance, and promote disciplined, risk-aware procurement practices.
Through strategic insight and strong relationship management, this manager will contribute to a culture of transparency, innovation, and continuous improvement, delivering measurable value across cost, quality, and risk management while elevating Ally’s professional services ecosystem.
The Work Itself
Your responsibilities will include:
The Skills You Bring
Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at hrpolicy@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Base Pay Range: $90000 - $150000 USD
An individual's position in the range is determined by the specific role, the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer.
Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.
Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?
Work Schedule: Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.
The Opportunity
This role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on how Ally engages, sources, and manages its professional services partners. The Professional Services Sourcing and Category Management Manager will help define the strategic vision for the category and play an essential role in supporting enterprise-wide performance.
The position offers the opportunity to design forward-thinking category strategies, lead high-impact sourcing initiatives, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals. Additionally, the successful candidate will help drive efficiency, enhance supplier performance, and promote disciplined, risk-aware procurement practices.
Through strategic insight and strong relationship management, this manager will contribute to a culture of transparency, innovation, and continuous improvement, delivering measurable value across cost, quality, and risk management while elevating Ally’s professional services ecosystem.
The Work Itself
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading the development and execution of commodity strategies, competitive bid processes, contract negotiations, vendor management, and risk assessments for professional services.
- Support the recruiting, training, and managing a team of sourcing consultants with deep expertise in ADM contracts, consulting engagements, training and development master agreements, and Statements of Work.
- Overseeing the transition of all professional services external labor classes and contractors onto the Coupa CCW platform, ensuring standardized onboarding/offboarding, improved data governance, analytics, reporting, and cost savings.
- Serving as a recognized expert in professional services and external labor spend categories, proactively developing strategies to enhance service quality, reduce costs, and drive innovation.
- Managing high-impact supplier relationships and supporting critical business lines through effective sourcing activities.
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders, including Legal, Information Security, Third Party Risk Management, HR, Data Privacy, Compliance, Finance, and other sourcing teams, to execute sourcing strategies, negotiate contracts, and manage supplier partnerships.
- Facilitating fact-based sourcing processes and negotiation strategies to maximize business value and mitigate risk.
- Supporting end-to-end supplier relationship management, including issue resolution, risk management, contract inventory, performance scorecards, and negotiation strategies.
- Enabling supplier risk management activities across all lines of business.
- Driving continuous process, policy, and performance improvements across all areas of responsibility.
- Cultivating an environment that values transparency, performance, risk management, innovation, integrity, and teamwork.
The Skills You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in strategic sourcing, negotiation, and procurement management, ideally within the financial services industry.
- Strong proficiency in business and industry analysis, financial modeling, supplier selection and management, contract negotiations, conflict resolution, and strategic decision-making.
- Demonstrated success leading complex sourcing projects, running RFx/auctions, and negotiating large-scale third-party supply contracts.
- Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to develop, interpret, and present complex cost models, business cases, and strategic plans.
- Outstanding persuasion and communication abilities, with a talent for building strong relationships across all levels of the organization.
- Comfortable thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with the ability to manage multiple priorities seamlessly with track record of delivering industry-leading results on large projects involving multiple stakeholders.
- Agility and resilience in handling challenging situations with clients and vendors with a collaborative mindset and experience working with cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.
- Advanced problem-solving skills and the ability to organize and analyze data effectively using Microsoft Excel to support sourcing decisions and reporting.
- Experience with procurement software platforms such as Coupa, Ariba, or related is required.
- Hands-on experience using Microsoft PowerPoint, Power BI and/or Tableau for developing, maintaining, and presenting interactive presentations, dashboards, and reports related to sourcing activities, supplier performance, and spend analysis.
Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:
- Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).
- Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
- Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
- Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
- Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
- Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
- To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at hrpolicy@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Base Pay Range: $90000 - $150000 USD
An individual's position in the range is determined by the specific role, the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer.
Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.
Salary : $90,000 - $150,000
