Strategic Sourcing Category Manager
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Role Description
As a Strategic Sourcing Manager at Dropbox you are responsible for developing and executing Sourcing Strategy across global vendors. We're looking for a self starter who will thrive in an often-times ambiguous environment and isn’t afraid of a challenge. The Strategic Sourcing Manager has:
Deep market knowledge of Third Party Cloud Service Providers (i.e AWS, Azure, GCP)
Strong ability to determine contractual/financial exposure/ negotiate contracts
Knowledge of Cloud contracting trends, licensing models - traditional and emerging contract/vendor performance models.
Executive Relationship Management skills.
Strong ability to communicate with users, legal, sourcing, business leaders and engineering to align technical requirements with business goals.
Responsibilities
Lead Enterprise contract/pricing negotiations with platform Cloud Service Providers
Facilitate New Technology evaluation and implementation via Cloud Service Providers
Align on Cloud Spend and Forecast Spend across Engineering organizations
Partner with Engineering teams to leverage Cloud Service Provider Roadmaps
Manage Executive Partnership & Relationship management between Dropbox and Cloud Service Providers
Requirements
+7 years experience in Strategic Sourcing with Cloud Services or related fields
+5 years of major enterprise level contract negotiation experience
Experience in building and developing vendor partnerships at the Executive level
Proven success and experience in providing direction to technical/engineering teams
A diverse technical acumen--actively contribute to technical discussions, proactively identify challenges and risks, working closely with engineers and product manager on addressing challenges, and form mitigation plans.
You have the ability to communicate complex plans effectively.
Preferred Qualifications
Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills.
Effective problem-solving skills.
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Strategic Sourcing Category Manager
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Human Resources jobs
Role Description
As a Strategic Sourcing Manager at Dropbox you are responsible for developing and executing Sourcing Strategy across global vendors. We're looking for a self starter who will thrive in an often-times ambiguous environment and isn’t afraid of a challenge. The Strategic Sourcing Manager has:
Deep market knowledge of Third Party Cloud Service Providers (i.e AWS, Azure, GCP)
Strong ability to determine contractual/financial exposure/ negotiate contracts
Knowledge of Cloud contracting trends, licensing models - traditional and emerging contract/vendor performance models.
Executive Relationship Management skills.
Strong ability to communicate with users, legal, sourcing, business leaders and engineering to align technical requirements with business goals.
Responsibilities
Lead Enterprise contract/pricing negotiations with platform Cloud Service Providers
Facilitate New Technology evaluation and implementation via Cloud Service Providers
Align on Cloud Spend and Forecast Spend across Engineering organizations
Partner with Engineering teams to leverage Cloud Service Provider Roadmaps
Manage Executive Partnership & Relationship management between Dropbox and Cloud Service Providers
Requirements
+7 years experience in Strategic Sourcing with Cloud Services or related fields
+5 years of major enterprise level contract negotiation experience
Experience in building and developing vendor partnerships at the Executive level
Proven success and experience in providing direction to technical/engineering teams
A diverse technical acumen--actively contribute to technical discussions, proactively identify challenges and risks, working closely with engineers and product manager on addressing challenges, and form mitigation plans.
You have the ability to communicate complex plans effectively.
Preferred Qualifications
Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills.
Effective problem-solving skills.