Director Enterprise Procurement
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Job Location:
Dallas, IA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
18 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Title: Director Procurement
Locations: Dallas TX; Austin TX; Ashburn VA
Your role
Join Digital Realty as our Director Procurement where youll play a pivotal role in leading our corporate (indirect) procurement function.
This is a high-impact role that blends strategic foresight with hands-on executiondriving procurement excellence process innovation and commercial efficiency. Youll work alongside top-tier colleagues and influence enterprise-wide decisions while being a key finance partner to business leaders across Digital Realty.
What youll do
- Develop and execute a global corporate (indirect) procurement strategy aligned with business goals and operational excellence.
- Lead procurement planning supplier negotiations and contract management to optimize cost value and risk mitigation across IT professional services facilities HR finance sales and marketing and legal.
- Establish and refine procurement policies governance frameworks and performance metrics ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Partner cross-functionally with Legal Finance IT Sales and HR to align on priorities and enable strategic decision-making.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance process efficiency transparency and scalability across all indirect procurement categories.
- Manage annual budgets cost targets and savings initiatives with a focus on ROI and long-term sustainability.
- Evaluate and implement digital procurement technologies (Oracle Procurement Cloud Coupa Ariba) to streamline sourcing analytics and vendor performance tracking.
- Represent procurement in executive forums providing strategic insights spend visibility and actionable recommendations to the CFO and senior leadership.
- Lead VMS and MSP governance ensuring contingent workforce and professional services engagements are compliant and cost-optimized.
- Oversee SaaS and enterprise technology sourcing including contract renewals licensing optimization and commercial compliance.
- Champion supplier diversity ESG alignment and risk management embedding sustainability into procurement strategy.
What youll need
10 years of progressive experience in indirect procurement sourcing or supply chain management ideally within global technology or infrastructure organizations.
Proven success leading enterprise-wide procurement functions and complex supplier negotiations across IT services and corporate operations.
Strong commercial and financial acumen with the ability to balance cost risk and performance in multi-region operations.
Experience managing high-visibility vendor transitions and mitigating operational or reputational risk.
Deep understanding of contract law procurement governance and compliance in regulated markets.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills including influencing at the executive and board level.
Demonstrated ability to implement digital procurement systems and drive adoption of analytics-led decision-making.
A bit about us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL the companys global data center platform provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 28 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty please visit or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
What we can offer you
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and youll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team youll get to work with people from different business areas challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. Well also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Health and Safety
Safetyisntjust a priority here at Digital;itscritical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives protecting assets and securing dataarentjust ideals -theyreessential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people ourpartnersand our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package excellent benefits and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the companys overall goals and values.
This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Category Management
- Purchasing
- Sourcing
- Procurement
- Financial Acumen
- HR Sourcing
- Procurement Management
- Contract Management
- Supplier Management
- Contract Negotiation
- negotiation
- Contracts
About Company
With Digital Realty, you can leverage our full interconnection capabilities across our global ecosystem including data centers, connectivity and cloud services.
