Senior Director, Sourcing & Procurement
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Director of Strategic Sourcing responsible for enterprise-wide Vendor Management Office at New Relic. Leading negotiations and supplier performance while driving governance and value creation across the business.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain positive business relationships with suppliers as well as key stakeholders and budget owners and collaborate with internal customer/category groups in a personable, approachable manner
- Sponsor and lead high-complexity, mission-critical RFx initiatives
- Lead and support complex commercial negotiations across software, SaaS, cloud, hardware, and professional services
- Own and strengthen critical supplier relationships, resolving issues and driving continuous improvement.
- Lead the Travel and Expense function for the company
- Develop and implement sourcing strategies, procurement & travel policies, and governance across all spend categories
- Partner closely with Legal, Security, Finance, and Technology leaders to align on cross-functional goals
- Drive cost optimization, market benchmarking, and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis
- Lead organizational change and strategic procurement programs aligned to business objectives.
- Manage departmental budget and define performance metrics and evaluation criteria
- Build, lead, and develop high-performing, distributed procurement teams
- Provide executive-level communication, guidance, and reporting on procurement objectives and outcomes.
Requirements:
- Bachelor/Master’s Degree business, information systems, or related field and 10+ years of direct experience in a strategic sourcing management role.
- 5+ years of experience leading a team
- 10+ years of experience negotiating commercial contracts, preparing and redlining in word, for software and hardware licenses, professional services agreements, statements of work, SaaS, Cloud Subscriptions, and amendments to existing contracts.
- 10+ years of direct experience in a lead / principal role.
- Experience leading Travel and Expense function Globally
- Ability to build contract price modelling using a fact-based data driven approach in Excel to provide sourcing recommendations.
- Experience with procurement software (i.e. Coupa, NetSuite, Oracle and JIRA).
- Experience formulating methods to develop and analyze various category portfolios, including market price benchmarking and total cost ownership (TCO) analysis.
- Keen ability to proactively identify/propose cost reductions and continuous supplier performance improvement opportunities
- Experience Building and developing high performance Global teams with a focus on learning and career growth.
- Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
Benefits:
- healthcare
- dental
- vision
- parental leave and planning
- mental health benefits
- a 401(k) plan and match
- flex time-off
- 11 paid holidays
- volunteer time-off
- other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees
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