Director, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Director of Global Strategic Sourcing Technology

The Opportunity

We are looking for a dynamic Director of Technology Strategic Sourcing to lead highimpact technology categories. Youll have the opportunity to set the vision and strategy for the spend categories shape companywide sourcing decisions related to Technology spend and grow as a senior leader within a global sourcing organization. You will deliver significant savings streamline operations and raise internal customer satisfaction. Youll also help standardize how we buy and govern technology through our unified source-to-pay process enabling faster buying and strengthening governance companywide.

Collaborating with the Head of Global Strategic Sourcing you will lead teams of category managers covering over $2.5B in annual spend. The category scope includes Cloud (Compute Storage GPU) AI and Data Platforms Enterprise Software (SaaS and on- premise) Infrastructure (Hardware Data Center Network) and Services. Are you a builder and leader who is comfortable in setting strategy driving execution developing talent and influencing senior levels in a fastpaced global environment If you are looking to operate at scale influence executive decisionmaking and build the next chapter of your leadership career this role offers both growth and impact.

What youll Do

• Partner closely with internal customers to understand priorities unlock value and deliver measurable outcomes.

• Build and continuously evolve multiyear category strategies aligned to business roadmaps budgets and risk posture.

• Help standardize technology buying through unified sourcetopay processes and contracting standards.

• Lead sourcing and cross-functional teams across multiple categories and initiatives from strategy development through sourcing contracting and implementation.

• Develop organizational capability by mentoring coaching and building highperforming sourcing leaders and teams.

• Drive process improvements that increase customer happiness reduce cycle time and deliver efficiency gains while ensuring compliance with policies and mitigating supplier risk.

• Deploy leading-edge procurement solutions (e.g. AI RPA Chatbots Process Mining) to drive automation unlocking savings mitigate risk and transform strategic sourcing processes

What you need to succeed

• 10 years of demonstrated leadership experience and expertise in strategic sourcing for Technology categories (enterprise software SaaS/cloud data/AI or infra/services) at a global scale and within a fast paced dynamic organization.

• Experience in structuring and negotiating large-scale cloud agreements with hyperscalers. Solid understanding of cloud category market dynamics (offerings pricing competitive position market trends); Demonstrated ability to develop and implement sourcing strategies that translate to significant business outcomes.

• Proven track record in building trusted relationships with diverse partners across all levels (including senior-most levels of an organization) and influence decisionmaking that aligns the interests of diverse teams.

• Strong people-leadership capabilities with a track record of attracting developing training and retaining outstanding talent.

• Experience embedding risk compliance and governance into sourcing and contracting processes.

• Experience leading high-profile complex negotiations with multi-faceted relationships (buy from sell to joint go-to-market etc).

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