Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop an 8–10 member team, consisting of Indirect Procurement Category Managers and Procurement Operations professionals supporting Ariba S2C and PR/PO workflows.
• Own delivery of Finance-committed GAAP Opex budget savings and cost reduction targets, and synergy capture from acquisitions.
• Drive M&A integration initiatives, including supplier rationalization, contract harmonization, volume leverage, and duplicated spend elimination.
• Serve as executive escalation point for high-risk sourcing, supplier, and operational issues.
• Lead the team’s global IT Procurement category, spanning software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, telecom, hardware, and IT services.
• Personally lead critical IT sourcing events and complex negotiations, including enterprise SaaS, MSP, cloud providers, and system integrators.
• Partner with IT leadership to align sourcing decisions to technology roadmaps, security, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Deliver value through contract restructuring, licensing optimization, renewal consolidation, and TCO-based decision making.
• Ensure efficient, compliant execution across Source-to-Contract and PR-to-PO processes, with strong Ariba adoption.
• Simplify and standardize procurement processes to support scale, M&A integration, and improved stakeholder experience.
• Maintain clear governance, policy compliance, and contract visibility, with proactive supplier and risk management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of procurement experience with deep IT Procurement and negotiation expertise.
• Proven leader of both category management and procurement operations teams.
• Demonstrated success delivering M&A synergy cost savings and enterprise sourcing outcomes.
• Strong Ariba S2C and P2P experience preferred.