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About the role
- Director, Strategic Sourcing managing over $100M+ in Technology spend at LiveRamp. Responsible for supplier management and collaborating with engineering, security, and product teams.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the global strategy and roadmap for technology categories in alignment with LiveRamp’s evolving business strategy, supplier development and financial needs.
- Collaborate closely with key stakeholders and act as a trusted business advisor to the various teams in developing new strategies in an effort to increase delivery through human capital, processes, tools, and suppliers.
- Having the ability to successfully negotiate contracts/business requirements that meet the needs of organization (risk, quality, cost, etc.) across Technology categories.
- Lead RFx process (e.g. requirements development, and selection and award process) and manage communications with suppliers and internal stakeholders throughout.
- Initiate, design, plan, execute, monitor, and close process improvement projects, including supplier management and optimization.
- Develop and implement strategies to achieve cost savings and reductions in supplier deals, prioritizing long-term value creation.
- Ensure these savings are realized without impacting supply reliability or product/service quality.
- Explore new technologies to optimize performance and transparency to business partners.
- Establish procurement governance, audit controls, policy enforcement, and risk/compliance oversight.
- Manage other ad-hoc projects.
Requirements
- 12+ years of strategic sourcing or procurement experience, including substantial time in a high-growth technology or SaaS environment.
- At least 7 years leading Technology categories, such as cloud infrastructure, enterprise SaaS, developer tools, security, or other core technology domains.
- 5+ years of people leadership experience directly managing and developing strategic sourcing/procurement professionals.
- Proven track record of: Designing and executing category strategies that deliver measurable cost/value outcomes.
- Running complex RFPs and leading high-stakes commercial and contractual negotiations.
- Managing strategic suppliers and driving performance improvement and innovation.
- Strong project and program management skills, with the ability to clearly communicate project status, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans to senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate unstructured and fast-changing environments, influence without authority, and quickly build trust with internal customers, including senior leaders.
- Experience proactively resolving supplier performance issues, including commercial disputes, service-level gaps, and transition/off-boarding.
- High proficiency in leveraging technology and financial systems (e.g., CLM, intake tools like zSAVE/ZIP, Workday, ERP/finance systems, and BI tools) to extract, analyze, and present data-driven insights.
Benefits
- Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
- We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
- Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
- LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives.
- Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
- Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers)
- A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we provide you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located.
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