Senior Procurement Manager
Senior procurement professional managing sourcing, vendor contracts, negotiations, supplier governance, and procurement metrics. Requires a bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of procurement, sourcing, and contract administration experience, including IT and cloud agreements.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Manage the end-to-end procurement process, including intake, document review, approvals, execution, and contractor onboarding.
- Prepare, review, execute, and manage approvals for contracts, renewals, terminations, and change orders.
- Partner with stakeholders on medium- to high-complexity sourcing projects, including RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs.
- Define deal objectives, identify sourcing solutions, and implement negotiation strategies.
- Lead commercial negotiations aligned with business objectives.
- Establish financial processes for supplier and contract payments, invoices, and work orders.
- Develop and maintain financial, operational, and service metrics for the Procurement Department.
- Manage and resolve contract disputes with legal and finance teams.
- Review vendor contracts for compliance with service-level objectives.
- Advise stakeholders on procurement, vendor management, contract management, and administration best practices.
- Liaise between vendors and stakeholders on sourcing activities.
- Establish supplier governance activities and maintain contractual artifacts.
- Facilitate supplier reviews and assess SLAs and other operational metrics.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; suitable combinations of education, training, and experience may be accepted.
- Five to seven years of experience in product and services procurement, sourcing, and contract administration.
- At least three years of experience negotiating medium- to large-sized IT product and services agreements, including cloud IaaS and SaaS agreements.
- Ability to benchmark vendor spend against industry data.
- Ability to analyze financial, business, or technical information and make sourcing recommendations.
- Ability to lead meetings and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
- Knowledge of spend analysis techniques.
- Strong contract administration, governance, negotiation, interpersonal, leadership, organizational, and prioritization skills.
Nice-to-Haves
- MBA or related advanced degree.
- Global procurement experience.
- Experience with customer relationship management.
Compensation
- Base salary: $94,500–$148,500 USD.
- Additional compensation, including bonus, commission, equity, and benefits, may apply.
Skills
Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Contract Administration, Contract Negotiation, Vendor Management, Supplier Governance, Spend Analysis, Rfp, Rfi, Rfq, Cloud Iaas, Cloud Saas, Sla Management, Financial Analysis, Customer Relationship Management
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