Director Procurement - Technology Tower Lead

Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop and execute category management strategies across the Technology/IT spend portfolio (7-10 subcategories across approximately $200-250M including multi-year roadmaps aligned to business priorities, savings objectives, supplier management, risk mitigation, and operational requirements).
• Partner and engage with senior stakeholders, including C-suite, to align procurement strategies with enterprise objectives, transformation initiatives, and functional priorities.
• Provide market intelligence, supplier insights, and category expertise to support strategic decision-making, long-term planning activities, evolving business and Technology priorities, and alignment of category strategies with key stakeholders.
• Support and contribute to enterprise digitalization initiatives and evolving Technology strategies, including alignment to broader AI-related priorities where applicable.
• Lead strategic sourcing activities, supplier selection decisions, contracting activities, and complex commercial negotiations across the assigned Technology categories.
• Develop and maintain strategic supplier relationships, governance models, and risk mitigation approaches to support cost optimization, service quality, scalability, operational resilience, and broader risk management objectives.
• Oversee contracting, supplier governance, and commercial management activities in partnership with Legal, Finance, Security, Privacy, Operations, and business stakeholders.
• Support adherence to procurement governance standards, enterprise policies, and sourcing controls across the Technology procurement portfolio.
• Own category savings targets and identify opportunities for demand management, vendor consolidation, commercial optimization, process improvement, and broader procurement value creation.
• Monitor supplier performance, category spend trends, contractual commitments, and market conditions to proactively identify risks and optimization opportunities.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and spend management activities related to the Technology procurement portfolio.

Qualifications

• Minimum: 10+ years of progressive procurement, sourcing, or category management experience within complex global organizations.
• 5 years' experience supporting Technology/IT procurement categories, including software, infrastructure, cloud, hardware, telecommunications, cybersecurity, and/or IT services.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing category strategies across large and complex global spend portfolios.
• Experience leading strategic supplier negotiations and managing executive-level supplier relationships.
• Experience partnering with senior business and Technology stakeholders in a matrixed global environment.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams and influencing cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong commercial, analytical, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.