Senior Manager, IT Procurement & Vendor Strategy

About the role

Quanta Services (NYSE: PWR) is a Fortune 200 company and the largest specialty contractor in North America, with $28B+ in annual revenue, 70,000+ employees, and 60+ operating companies. Quanta’s Corporate IT organization supports the enterprise with shared technology services, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business applications. Quanta has not historically had a strategic, centralized approach to IT procurement. This is changing. Quanta is building its first strategic IT Procurement & Vendor Strategy function from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Stabilize the Foundation (Now)
  • Conduct a comprehensive assessment of every active technology agreement, vendor relationship, and renewal obligation.
  • Fix the renewal process so the organization is never again making critical decisions with insufficient lead time.
  • Assess and redesign the operational layer that supports procurement today.
  • Map the current state and design a redesigned operating engine.
  • Output is a function that runs on clean, structured data rather than spreadsheets and tribal knowledge.
• Define the Strategy and Build the Function (Next)
  • Define the strategic mandate for IT procurement at Quanta.
  • Stand up the function against the corporate IT portfolio.
  • Prove the operating model works.
  • Demonstrate measurable value.
  • Build credibility with leadership.
  • Align leadership across key functions to the strategy and its sequencing.
  • Build the machine to execute.
  • Define the operating model, the processes, the tools, and the team.
• Drive Enterprise Value (Future)
  • Build the business case for enterprise-wide expansion.
  • Leverage Quanta’s full scale to drive better outcomes.
  • Identify where the enterprise is over-licensed, where spend is duplicated, and where consolidation creates real savings.
  • Extend vendor management disciplines enterprise-wide.
  • Ensure quarterly business reviews, pricing benchmarks, and service accountability reflect the full weight of Quanta’s purchasing power.
• Own the Commercial Relationship with the Vendor Ecosystem
  • Protect IT leadership’s bandwidth from vendor-facing commercial work.
  • Partner with Corporate Supply Chain Procurement.
• Automate Relentlessly
  • Solve this by implementing procurement platforms and automation to replace manual, spreadsheet-driven processes.
  • Eliminate manual effort.
  • Free capacity for strategic work.
• Career Development
  • Work directly with the CIO, IT leadership, Legal, Finance, supply chain, and operating company stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required. Supply chain management, business, information systems, or related field preferred.
• MBA or relevant certification (CPSM, CSCP) valued but not required — we are hiring for judgment and execution, not credentials.
• 9+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management, with at least 5 years specifically in IT/technology categories at enterprise scale.
• Demonstrated track record of negotiating multi-million-dollar enterprise technology contracts (i.e., Microsoft EA, SaaS platform agreements, telecom master contracts, cloud commitments).
• Prior experience building or restructuring a procurement function — not just managing an existing one.
• You have defined operating models, hired teams, and stood up processes from scratch.
• Experience working in a decentralized or federated organizational model where you must influence without direct authority over business units.
• Proficiency with procurement platforms (Coupa, SAP Ariba, or equivalent) and the ability to drive platform implementation and configuration for IT-specific use cases.
• Strong commercial acumen: you read contracts, identify unfavorable terms, construct counter-proposals, and negotiate with a bias toward total cost of ownership.
• Fluency with AI and automation tools. You default to automating manual work, not adding headcount. You bring a practical understanding of where AI, workflow automation, and analytics create value in procurement operations.

Qualifications

• Equal Opportunity Employer
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity), age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and/or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
• We prohibit all types of discrimination and are committed to providing access and equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities.
• Contact us the Company’s Human Resources department for additional information or if reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application, interview, or hiring processes or to perform the essential functions of a position.

Skills

• Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Vendor Management
• IT/Technology Categories
• Enterprise Scale
• Contract Negotiation
• Procurement Platforms
• AI and Automation Tools
• Commercial Acumen
• Decentralized or Federated Organizational Model
• Vendor Compliance
• Internal Controls
• Shared Services
• Corporate Supply Chain Procurement

Benefits

• Not specified

Pay

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Schedule

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