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Remote Sourcing Specialist jobs are open across the U.S. in procurement, supply chain, and operations, with remote-first companies and distributed enterprise teams actively hiring from entry-level coordinators to senior sourcing leads. Employers hiring remotely right now include JLL, Pinterest, and Fisher Investments. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Your Role
This role supports Ascendiun and related activities within the Ascendiun Family of Companies, as appropriate. The IT Sourcing Team is a part of Global Business Services team supporting the acquisition of technology products and services across the enterprise. The Sourcing Specialist Consultant role will report to the Senior Director of IT Sourcing. In this role, you will use your business acumen, negotiation expertise, and knowledge of contracting and technology to support our family of companies by engaging with a diverse range of suppliers and internal stakeholders.
Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- Be accountable for driving measurable sourcing outcomes, strengthening supplier partnerships, and enabling technology initiatives across the Ascendiun Family of Companies by
- Serve as a strategic sourcing advisor to technology and business leaders, translating enterprise objectives into clear sourcing strategies, negotiation plans, and executable contracting approaches
- Influence demand, supplier selection, and spend decisions to deliver cost savings, cost avoidance, risk reduction, and value creation through supplier rationalization, market leverage, and economies of scale
- Analyze supply markets, commercial models, technology trends, and supplier capabilities to identify best-fit sources that balance price, capability, resiliency, compliance, innovation, and long-term enterprise value
- Lead structured supplier selection and qualification processes, including RFx events, auctions, proposal evaluations, scoring models, negotiation rounds, and award recommendations supported by clear governance and documentation
- Advance supplier diversity and inclusion by proactively identifying, promoting, and supporting engagement with small, disadvantaged, minority-owned, and other diverse suppliers were aligned with business needs
- Coordinate supplier due diligence, onboarding, risk review, and compliance activities with cross-functional partners to ensure sourcing decisions meet business, regulatory, privacy, security, and operational requirements
- Lead end-to-end negotiations for complex technology transactions across cloud, software, data, professional services, managed services, outsourcing, telecom, and related technology categories
- Develop and execute negotiation strategies using BATNAs, should-cost analysis, total-cost-of-ownership models, benchmarking, competitive leverage, and scenario planning to achieve best-value outcomes across price, risk, service levels, flexibility, and innovation
- Structure and negotiate scalable commercial models, including outcome-based pricing, consumption-based commitments, elastic capacity, milestone-based delivery, indexed rate cards, reserved capacity, renewal protections, and cloud optimization constructs
- Enable cloud, digital, AI, and technology transformation initiatives by negotiating timely, commercially sound software, data, services, and technology agreements that support business continuity and speed to value
- Partner with Legal, Privacy, Security, Finance, Risk, Compliance, IT, and business stakeholders to resolve contract issues involving intellectual property, data protection, cybersecurity, regulatory obligations, audit rights, service levels, indemnities, limitations of liability, and business continuity
- Guide stakeholders from intake through signature by clarifying requirements, building complete sourcing packages, developing well-defined statements of work, securing required approvals, and maintaining audit-ready documentation
- Improve efficiency, consistency, and control by using standard templates, clause positions, playbooks, disciplined redlining, clear escalation paths, and proactive blocker resolution to reduce cycle time and contracting risk
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, finance, technology, legal studies, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Requires a minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, technology procurement, and complex contract negotiations
- Five or more years of direct experience negotiating technology agreements, including SaaS, cloud, data services, cybersecurity, managed services, outsourcing, professional services, telecom, and healthcare technology arrangements, with ownership of multi-million-dollar transactions strongly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to manage a high-volume portfolio of sourcing and contracting initiatives, prioritize competing deadlines, drive accountability, and deliver results in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate business, technical, regulatory, and operational requirements into clear sourcing strategies, executive-ready recommendations, contract terms, and statements of work
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, advise, and collaborate across all levels of the Ascendiun Family of Companies, including senior leaders, business owners, technologists, legal partners, and control functions
- Working knowledge of technology market trends and commercial constructs, particularly SaaS, cloud consumption, data platforms, AI-enabled services, cybersecurity, software licensing, and managed services models
- Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and adaptability as technology, supplier markets, regulatory expectations, and commercial models evolve
Hybrid
This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week. Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
ABOUT THE TEAM
About Blue Shield of California and the Ascendiun Family of Companies
As of January 2025, Blue Shield of California became a subsidiary of Ascendiun. Ascendiun is a nonprofit corporate entity that is the parent to a family of organizations including Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan; Altais, a clinical services company; and Stellarus, a company designed to scale healthcare solutions. Together, these organizations are referred to as the Ascendiun Family of Companies.
At Ascendiun, we believe in a brighter future for healthcare. As the parent to a family of four innovative healthcare companies, we’re reimagining what’s possible. Ascendiun is guided by the goal of transforming a dysfunctional American health care system into one worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable for everyone.
To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.
Our Values:
- Honest . We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
- Human . We strive to listen and communicate effectively, and showing empathy by understanding others’ perspectives.
- Courageous . We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.
Our Workplace Model:
We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:
For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.
The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.
Physical Requirements:
Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
Your Role
This role supports Ascendiun and related activities within the Ascendiun Family of Companies, as appropriate. The IT Sourcing Team is a part of Global Business Services team supporting the acquisition of technology products and services across the enterprise. The Sourcing Specialist Consultant role will report to the Senior Director of IT Sourcing. In this role, you will use your business acumen, negotiation expertise, and knowledge of contracting and technology to support our family of companies by engaging with a diverse range of suppliers and internal stakeholders.
Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- Be accountable for driving measurable sourcing outcomes, strengthening supplier partnerships, and enabling technology initiatives across the Ascendiun Family of Companies by
- Serve as a strategic sourcing advisor to technology and business leaders, translating enterprise objectives into clear sourcing strategies, negotiation plans, and executable contracting approaches
- Influence demand, supplier selection, and spend decisions to deliver cost savings, cost avoidance, risk reduction, and value creation through supplier rationalization, market leverage, and economies of scale
- Analyze supply markets, commercial models, technology trends, and supplier capabilities to identify best-fit sources that balance price, capability, resiliency, compliance, innovation, and long-term enterprise value
- Lead structured supplier selection and qualification processes, including RFx events, auctions, proposal evaluations, scoring models, negotiation rounds, and award recommendations supported by clear governance and documentation
- Advance supplier diversity and inclusion by proactively identifying, promoting, and supporting engagement with small, disadvantaged, minority-owned, and other diverse suppliers were aligned with business needs
- Coordinate supplier due diligence, onboarding, risk review, and compliance activities with cross-functional partners to ensure sourcing decisions meet business, regulatory, privacy, security, and operational requirements
- Lead end-to-end negotiations for complex technology transactions across cloud, software, data, professional services, managed services, outsourcing, telecom, and related technology categories
- Develop and execute negotiation strategies using BATNAs, should-cost analysis, total-cost-of-ownership models, benchmarking, competitive leverage, and scenario planning to achieve best-value outcomes across price, risk, service levels, flexibility, and innovation
- Structure and negotiate scalable commercial models, including outcome-based pricing, consumption-based commitments, elastic capacity, milestone-based delivery, indexed rate cards, reserved capacity, renewal protections, and cloud optimization constructs
- Enable cloud, digital, AI, and technology transformation initiatives by negotiating timely, commercially sound software, data, services, and technology agreements that support business continuity and speed to value
- Partner with Legal, Privacy, Security, Finance, Risk, Compliance, IT, and business stakeholders to resolve contract issues involving intellectual property, data protection, cybersecurity, regulatory obligations, audit rights, service levels, indemnities, limitations of liability, and business continuity
- Guide stakeholders from intake through signature by clarifying requirements, building complete sourcing packages, developing well-defined statements of work, securing required approvals, and maintaining audit-ready documentation
- Improve efficiency, consistency, and control by using standard templates, clause positions, playbooks, disciplined redlining, clear escalation paths, and proactive blocker resolution to reduce cycle time and contracting risk
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, finance, technology, legal studies, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Requires a minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, technology procurement, and complex contract negotiations
- Five or more years of direct experience negotiating technology agreements, including SaaS, cloud, data services, cybersecurity, managed services, outsourcing, professional services, telecom, and healthcare technology arrangements, with ownership of multi-million-dollar transactions strongly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to manage a high-volume portfolio of sourcing and contracting initiatives, prioritize competing deadlines, drive accountability, and deliver results in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate business, technical, regulatory, and operational requirements into clear sourcing strategies, executive-ready recommendations, contract terms, and statements of work
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, advise, and collaborate across all levels of the Ascendiun Family of Companies, including senior leaders, business owners, technologists, legal partners, and control functions
- Working knowledge of technology market trends and commercial constructs, particularly SaaS, cloud consumption, data platforms, AI-enabled services, cybersecurity, software licensing, and managed services models
- Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and adaptability as technology, supplier markets, regulatory expectations, and commercial models evolve
Hybrid
This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week. Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
ABOUT THE TEAM
About Blue Shield of California and the Ascendiun Family of Companies
As of January 2025, Blue Shield of California became a subsidiary of Ascendiun. Ascendiun is a nonprofit corporate entity that is the parent to a family of organizations including Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan; Altais, a clinical services company; and Stellarus, a company designed to scale healthcare solutions. Together, these organizations are referred to as the Ascendiun Family of Companies.
At Ascendiun, we believe in a brighter future for healthcare. As the parent to a family of four innovative healthcare companies, we’re reimagining what’s possible. Ascendiun is guided by the goal of transforming a dysfunctional American health care system into one worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable for everyone.
To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.
Our Values:
- Honest . We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
- Human . We strive to listen and communicate effectively, and showing empathy by understanding others’ perspectives.
- Courageous . We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.
Our Workplace Model:
We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:
For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.
The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.
Physical Requirements:
Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Retail
- Manufacturing
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote sourcing specialist jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, or a related field
- Proficiency with e-sourcing and procurement platforms such as SAP Ariba or Coupa
- Experience managing RFQ, RFP, and RFI processes from issue to award
- Demonstrated supplier negotiation and contract administration skills
- Familiarity with supplier performance metrics and scorecarding methodologies
- Certification such as CPSM or CPP preferred for mid-level and above roles
Tips for Your Remote Sourcing Specialist Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote sourcing specialist openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly. Remote roles on active listings fill quickly, so applying as soon as a position matches your experience gives you the best shot.
Prove async communication before the interview
Remote sourcing roles run almost entirely through written channels. Before you apply, document examples of vendor negotiations, RFQ summaries, or supplier evaluations you communicated in writing. A short portfolio of these shows remote employers you can handle sourcing work without verbal check-ins.
Learn the procurement tools remote teams rely on
Remote sourcing teams run on platforms like Coupa, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba, and Ivalua. Knowing your way around at least one of these before you interview signals you can contribute without a ramp-up period, which matters more in a remote role than in an office where training is easier.
Target distributed teams in procurement-heavy sectors
Technology, healthcare, and e-commerce companies with distributed operations hire sourcing specialists remotely because their supplier bases are already global. Focusing your search on companies that publicly describe distributed or remote-first procurement functions increases the chances you're applying to roles built for remote work, not converted from on-site.
Remote Sourcing Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote sourcing specialist job?
Remote sourcing specialist roles go to candidates who can demonstrate self-direction and clear written communication from day one. Remote employers screen for proficiency with procurement platforms like Coupa or SAP Ariba, comfort managing vendor relationships asynchronously, and the ability to run sourcing events without in-person oversight. Showing documented results from past sourcing work, even in a hybrid setting, gives you a concrete edge over candidates who only list responsibilities.
Which companies hire remote sourcing specialists?
Employers currently hiring remote sourcing specialists include JLL, Pinterest, and Fisher Investments, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Remote-first technology companies, distributed healthcare organizations, and large e-commerce operations are among the most consistent hirers of sourcing specialists in fully remote arrangements.
Can you get a remote sourcing specialist job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level sourcing roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently without day-to-day coaching. Smaller remote-first companies and startups with lean procurement teams are the most likely to hire entry-level candidates. Showing completed coursework in supply chain or procurement, a portfolio of practice RFQ documents, or a CPSM exam in progress can substitute meaningfully for direct experience.
Do you need a degree for remote sourcing specialist jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers list a degree as preferred rather than required, especially when candidates can show hands-on sourcing results, familiarity with procurement software, and strong vendor communication skills. A proven ability to manage sourcing cycles independently, demonstrated through past work or a professional certification like CPSM or CSCP, often carries as much weight as a formal degree in remote hiring decisions.
Which industries hire the most remote sourcing specialists?
The sectors hiring the most remote sourcing specialists are Technology & Software, Retail, and Manufacturing, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These industries rely heavily on distributed procurement teams that source goods, services, and suppliers across regions without requiring specialists to be on-site.
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