Staff Strategic Sourcing Manager - Logistics
Ōura
| Company | Ōura |
| Category | Procurement |
| Location | Remote - San Francisco |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 9 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office. We are looking for a Staff Strategic Sourcing Manager, Logistics to own sourcing strategy, supplier management, and commercial execution across key logistics spend categories that materially impact Oura’s cost of goods sold, with an initial focus on logistics, warehousing, freight, returns, and related business operations spend.
This is a high-impact individual contributor role within the Sourcing team. The person in this role will bring strategic sourcing discipline, strong commercial judgment, and cross-functional influence to drive measurable savings and create long-term supplier strategies.
This role works closely with Logistics, Finance, Operations, Program Management, and external supplier partners to ensure that Oura’s logistics sourcing decisions support service levels, scalability, and total landed cost objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Own sourcing strategy and commercial execution across logistics, warehousing, freight, returns, and related categories
Lead RFQ, RFP, and competitive bid processes, including supplier selection, pricing negotiations, SLA alignment, contract terms, and multi-year commercial agreements
Deliver measurable cost reductions across freight, 3PLs, and returns providers through supplier benchmarking, cost modeling, and vendor negotiations
Build and maintain dashboards, cost models, and reporting workstreams that track spend, savings, supplier performance, and key cost drivers across the portfolio
Establish KPIs and supplier scorecards covering cost, service, quality, on-time performance, and responsiveness, and lead regular business reviews to drive accountability
Partner with Logistics, Finance, Operations, and Program teams to align sourcing decisions with service requirements, launch timelines, forecast changes, and business priorities
Strengthen supplier governance and contract management to improve decision-making and operational execution and build long-term strategic partnerships
Standardize sourcing processes, commercial documentation, and supplier management practices to improve scalability
Qualifications
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field
8-10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, or supply chain, with meaningful ownership of indirect spend categories
Proven track record in supplier negotiations , RFQ/RFP management , and contracting
Excellent analytical, financial modeling, and project management skills with the ability to develop tools and dashboards for reporting workstreams
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority
Experience sourcing logistics, freight, warehousing, 3PL, returns, or related operational services
Mastery and knowledge of global trade compliance with the ability to integrate cost tradeoffs into a cohesive sourcing strategy
Preferred:
Experience operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving processes and shifting priorities
Experience in consumer electronics, medical device, consumer product, or similarly complex physical product environments
Familiarity with contract manufacturing and global supply chain netw