Senior Manager, Procurement

Inter Miami CF (IMCF or the Club) is a Major League Soccer club competing in the Eastern Conference, owned by Miami Beckham United and playing at its newly developed permanent stadium (Nu Stadium) at Miami Freedom Park, a 25,000-seat stadium within a 131-acre master-planned site featuring a 55-acre public park, structured parking, and over one million square feet of mixed-use retail, entertainment, commercial, and hospitality development. The Club operates a growing and complex business spanning professional sports, live events, stadium operations, retail, food and beverage, sponsorships, and media, supported by a lean Finance and Accounting function.

About the role

The Senior Manager, Procurement will be the Club's inaugural dedicated procurement leader, responsible for architecting, implementing, and enforcing the end-to-end source-to-pay (S2P) function across Miami Beckham United (MBU). This role offers a rare opportunity to design a procurement operating model from the ground up in a high-growth, high-visibility organization entering its most consequential phase of commercial scale. The Senior Manager will enable cost containment, cost reduction, and cost control across all third-party spend, design and enforce procurement policies, and build the Club's vendor management infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Procurement Policy and Enforcement
  • Author, publish, and enforce the Club's Cost Control Policy Framework, including purchase order requirements, approval authority matrices, vendor onboarding standards, and payment governance.
  • Exercise stop-work and stop-payment authority for any commitment or invoice that does not comply with established procurement policy, escalating exceptions to the Chief Financial Officer on a documented basis.
  • Serve as the Club's primary internal enforcement authority for third-party spend discipline, including formal partnership with cost center leaders on remediation of policy exceptions.
  • Design and administer training programs and materials for department leaders, budget owners, and approvers on procurement policy, personal accountability standards, and system workflows.
  • Establish and maintain the exceptions process, including documentation, review cadence, escalation protocol, and highly visible compliance reporting.
• Strategic Sourcing and Cost Reduction
  • Design and lead all RFI, RFQ, and RFP activity for the Club, including scope definition, vendor identification, bid evaluation, and award recommendation for new and existing vendor relationships.
  • Build and execute a competitive re-bid program for legacy vendors who have never been formally sourced, prioritized by annual spend and strategic importance.
  • Develop category strategies for the Club's major spend categories, including retail merchandise (inventory), variable matchday operations (e.g., day of game/event), third-party outsourced professional services, marketing, and travel.
  • Identify, quantify, and deliver measurable cost savings through consolidation, competitive bidding, negotiated terms, business back, and category rationalization.
  • Oversee the Club’s corporate credit card, employee reimbursement, and capital expenditure policies and administration.
  • Partner with department leads (i.e., cost centers) and Legal on commercial term negotiation for material third-party contracts.
  • Design regular enterprise tests to ensure effective control environment around spend.
• Vendor Management and Master Data
  • Own the vendor master data file, including new vendor onboarding procedures, periodic re-validation, deactivation of dormant vendors, and duplicate vendor resolution.
  • Establish and enforce vendor onboarding standards including W-9 collection, banking verification, insurance and certificate of insurance validation, sanctions screening, and 1099 readiness.
  • Administer the Club's contract and renewal calendar, ensuring proactive engagement on renewals, expirations, and auto-renewal exposures.
  • Monitor vendor performance against contractual service levels and escalate non-performance to the appropriate business owner.
• Purchase Order Governance
  • Design and administer the Club's purchase order workflow utilizing existing platforms, including approval routing, expense category discipline, and system configuration.
  • Evaluate and determine if existing procurement-related technology stack sufficiently scales to the heightened business complexity and transaction volume of the organization.
  • Drive purchase order compliance from current baseline toward best-practice benchmarks (at or above 90% of spend under PO).
  • Enforce the "no PO, no pay" standard, including formal return-to-requester process for non-compliant invoices.
  • Monitor and report to the executive leadership team and ownership group on PO compliance by cost center, category, and dollar band.
• Accounts Payable Operations
  • Directly supervise the accounts payable function, providing day-to-day direction, quality review, and supervision.
  • Own AP operations end-to-end, including invoice intake, three-way match, payment run execution, and month-end AP close activities.
  • Administer the Club's rush payment policy, requiring documented business justification and Chief Financial Officer approval for any exception to standard payment timing.
  • Ensure integrity of the AP subledger and its reconciliation to the general ledger, in coordination with the Club’s accounting team.
• Spend Analytics and Reporting
  • Establish a recurring spend analytics capability, including monthly PO compliance reporting, quarterly spend-by-category analysis, and annual savings realization tracking.
  • Deliver executive-level reporting on procurement KPIs, vendor risk exposures, and cost containment outcomes.
  • Partner with Financial Planning and Analysis on the annual budget cycle to align procurement sourcing calendars with budget commitments.
  • Support internal and external inquiries (including audit engagements) as the primary point of contact for procurement, AP, and vendor master data inquiries.
• Cross-Functional Partnership
  • Serve as the primary Finance interface with department leads, Legal, and executive leadership on all third-party spend matters.
  • Partner with Legal on contract commercial review, MSA and SOW structuring, and any renewal negotiations.
  • Coordinate with the Senior Director, Controller and the Senior Director, Finance on treasury, budget, and reporting alignment.
  • Support the Chief Financial Officer on ad-hoc initiatives, including cross-entity procurement, MFP scope expansion, executive-level cost management reporting, and cost reduction strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related field required.
• 6+ years of progressive procurement, sourcing, or category management experience, including 2+ years leading procurement in a high-growth or transformation environment.
• Demonstrated success authoring and enforcing procurement policy in an organization that previously lacked one.
• Track record of delivering quantified cost savings through competitive sourcing, vendor consolidation, and category strategy.
• Deep experience with source-to-pay technology platforms; direct experience with Tipalti and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is helpful but not required.
• Working knowledge of accounts payable operations, three-way match, and vendor master data governance.
• Experience managing direct reports, with a demonstrated ability to develop an AP function with procurement staff.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to hold firm on policy in cross-functional and executive settings.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage a high-volume vendor and contract portfolio across multiple entities and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated track record of leading complex, multi-stakeholder sourcing initiatives from scoping through implementation and handoff.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to identify, quantify, and communicate savings, risk, and exposure to senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to define structure, process, and controls where none currently exist.
• Bias towards initiative, is resourceful and solutions-oriented, and can break down complex problems into digestible, actionable components.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and procurement/project management tools.
• High degree of professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or other relevant advanced degree or professional certification.
• Prior experience building a procurement function from the ground up in a scaling organization.
• Background in professional sports, live events, hospitality, stadium operations, or high-growth consumer brands.
• Experience with real estate development, construction procurement, or capital project sourcing (relevant to future MFP scope expansion).
• Familiarity with lender-facing environments where procurement discipline supports covenant compliance and audit readiness.
• Experience with vendor risk programs, insurance and COI compliance, and 1099 administration.
• Bilingual English/Spanish given vendor and community mix.