Senior Director of Sourcing, Technology

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We’re seeking a Senior Director, Strategic Sourcing – Technology to join our Global Procurement team.

How can you make an impact?  

The Senior Director, Strategic Sourcing – Technology leads the coordinated execution of strategic sourcing across enterprise technology spend. In this role, you will report to the VP, Global Procurement and work collaboratively across our international teams and markets. Your work will ensure consistent application of sourcing strategy direction, commercial standards, and governance expectations across technology sourcing leaders and categories that are critical to business operations, security posture, and scalability. 

The Senior Director drives portfolio-level integration—aligning priorities, managing cross-category dependencies, and ensuring value delivery and technology risk posture are understood and actively managed. The role serves as the senior escalation point for complex technology sourcing matters and enables effective execution of enterprise priorities in partnership with Technology, Security, Finance, Legal, HR, Marketing, and business leadership. The role will play a pivotal role in supporting rapid adoption of AI technologies and tokenization in cloud platforms, SaaS platforms, security technologies, and other technology capabilities.  

We’re looking for a leader with a positive approach that has extensive experience leading technology sourcing portfolios with enterprise impact including security, privacy, and continuity consideration. Success is measured through disciplined portfolio execution, improved cost and delivery outcomes, proactive risk management, and development of sourcing leadership and succession readiness. Strong negotiation, organization, and attention to detail skills are essential for success in this role. 

This role is open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. You will work remotely from a home office and travel 3-4 times per year as needed for business reasons. 

What you will be doing: 

Category Strategy & Market Insight 

• Integrate enterprise technology category strategies across software, cloud, AI, data-related services, and network/connectivity into a coherent sourcing portfolio aligned to technology and business roadmaps. 

• Monitor market and supplier trends across technology domains; ensure leaders incorporate intelligence into multi-year plans and resource prioritization. 

Commercial & Negotiation Capability 

• Set and enforce negotiation posture and commercial standards for technology sourcing; provide oversight and governance for enterprise-critical deals. 

• Governs contract negotiation standards across the technology sourcing portfolio, serving as the senior escalation point for complex, cross-category negotiations and ensuring consistent commercial and risk discipline in partnership with Legal and Security. 

• Serve as escalation point for complex, high-value negotiations and sensitive strategic supplier relationships. 

Stakeholder & Influence Skills 

• Influence senior leaders and resolve cross-functional friction impacting technology sourcing execution; represent sourcing perspectives confidently in executive forums. 

• Partner with Technology, Security, Finance, Legal, and business leaders to align on requirements, trade-offs, governance expectations, and decision rights. 

Analytical & Financial Acumen 

• Ensure consistent value measurement, savings logic, and reporting across the technology portfolio; drive analytical discipline and comparability across categories. 

• Provide executive-level insights on pipeline, performance, and value realization; challenge assumptions and ensure decisions reflect long-term cost and risk implications. 

Risk, Governance & Compliance 

• Oversee portfolio-level technology supplier risk, compliance, and resilience; ensure mitigation strategies are defined and executed across categories. 

• Escalate material risks, issues, and decisions appropriately; ensure governance controls operate as designed and documentation is audit-ready. 

Leadership & Talent Development 

• Hire, train, develop and lead leaders and teams; drive performance calibration, leadership development, and succession planning for technology sourcing. 

• Build scalable sourcing capability through standardized methods, playbooks, coaching, and a culture of continuous improvement. 

We’re looking for someone with:  

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred. 

• 15+ years of deep expertise in technology sourcing governance, commercial standards, and risk management (including security, privacy, and continuity considerations). 

• 10+ years managing leaders and teams with strong leadership presence and judgment while driving coordinated execution across technology sourcing. Proven talent development capability and ability to build succession readiness. 

• 5+ years governing and overseeing complex technology contract negotiations at the portfolio level at scale (>$250M), including complex risk decisions, executive alignment, and enforcement of commercial and contractual standards. 

• Enterprise-level influence skills; ability to partner with senior stakeholders and navigate competing priorities across Technology, Security, Finance, and Legal. 

• Ability to ensure analytical rigor and value tracking integrity across multiple technology categories. 

• Prior experience implementing or using procurement orchestration, esourcing, contract lifecycle management, spend analysis, and other upstream procurement technologies 

• Prior experience implementing AI systems in the general business and procurement function. 

Preferred: 

• Experience establishing technology sourcing standards, playbooks, and governance cadences across multiple categories. 

• Experience operating across global business units and multi-vendor technology ecosystems. 

The pay range for this position is between $148,000 - $195,000 annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered.  Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings. 

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