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Hybrid Senior Manager, IT Procurement – Vendor Management
Posted 12 hours ago
About the role
- Senior Manager responsible for IT Procurement and Vendor Management, leading sourcing strategies and optimizing supplier performance for American Family. Direct oversight of a team managing substantial IT spend across various vendors.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute enterprise technology sourcing strategies
- Lead a team responsible for managing approximately $300M in annual IT spend across a complex supplier ecosystem
- Guide full lifecycle sourcing plans and negotiations with technology leaders
- Build partnerships with business and technology leaders to maximize value from technology investments
- Oversee a team executing full lifecycle sourcing strategies across the IT vendor ecosystem
- Develop category strategies, sourcing pipelines, negotiation approaches, and vendor governance practices
- Establish governance frameworks to manage supplier performance and contract compliance
- Monitor supplier risk and performance, reporting to senior leadership
- Promote category management, strategic sourcing, and vendor management practices
- Develop strong partnerships with technology and business leaders to support strategic initiatives.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service
- Solid communication and influencing skills across varying leadership levels
- Demonstrated experience driving business results
- Demonstrated experience in creating meaningful data analysis and metrics to support business needs
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills related to complex vendor matters
- Extensive knowledge of vendor contracts and commercial/legal terms and conditions
- Significant experience leading sourcing initiatives within large enterprise organizations managing substantial technology spend
- Experience working within large, highly matrixed organizations with extensive supplier portfolios
- Demonstrated ownership of $100M+ in annual category spend with responsibility for sourcing strategy, negotiations, and supplier management
- Deep knowledge of procurement processes including category strategy development, RFX execution, supplier evaluation, contract negotiation, and vendor governance
- Experience sourcing and negotiating technology solutions including SaaS platforms, enterprise software, cloud services, and managed services
- Experience supporting enterprise technology transformation or digital modernization initiatives
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to develop total cost of ownership models and supplier benchmarks
- Experience using data analysis and metrics to develop insights, communicate strategy, and influence business decisions through effective storytelling
- Strong problem-solving capabilities with the ability to navigate complex vendor and commercial situations
- Strong communication and influencing skills across multiple levels of leadership
- Ability to manage complex initiatives and drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders
- Customer-focused mindset with experience delivering measurable results.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits
- Competitive 401(k) contribution
- Pension plan
- Annual incentive
- 9 paid holidays
- Paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees)
- Student loan repayment program
- Paid-family leave
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