Vice President - Software Sourcing and Procurement

About the role

We're seeking a Vice President to lead end-to-end software sourcing across our Business Applications software portfolio, anchor Dallas as a scaled GSS hub, and deliver disciplined commercial outcomes across a high-value, business-critical portfolio. In the Corporate Services division, we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience, while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Dallas GSS site lead, providing local leadership, operating discipline, and execution oversight for GSS staff.
• Oversee a complex portfolio of approximately $0.4B in Annual Contract Value, with management responsibility for five Director-level full-time employees in multiple time zones.
• Lead full lifecycle category strategy and execution across our Business Applications software sourcing portfolio, including renewals, new demand, demand management, and supplier rationalization.
• Drive material commercial outcomes through large-scale software negotiations, consumption model optimization, vendor consolidation, and disciplined supplier segmentation.
• Provide governance for high-risk and business-critical technology suppliers supporting revenue generation, client servicing, trading, and core operational processes.
• Partner with senior technology stakeholders, product owners, and finance teams on platform consolidation, resiliency, artificial intelligence enablement, and Firm-wide technology transformation priorities.

Requirements

• Significant experience in software sourcing, procurement, vendor management, category strategy, and complex technology negotiations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a broad supplier landscape and translate business, technology, and financial priorities into executable sourcing strategies.
• Strong executive stakeholder management skills, including experience partnering with senior technology, product, operations, and finance leaders.
• Commercial judgment and governance discipline to manage high-risk suppliers, large renewals, business-critical platforms, and sensitive negotiation escalations.
• People leadership experience, including the ability to manage, coach, and drive execution through experienced Director-level sourcing professionals.
• Ability to bring structure to a high-volume portfolio, reduce cycle times, sustain savings delivery, and support platform consolidation and resiliency priorities.
• Bachelor's degree.

About Morgan Stanley

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage, and allocate capital for our clients—helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated, and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values—putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back—guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities, and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries.

At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

Pay

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $170,000 and $209,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.