Strategic Technology Sourcing & Procurement Manager

TRS Staffing Solutions; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

TRS Staffing Solutions seeks an experienced Strategic Technology Sourcing & Procurement Manager to lead development and execution of sourcing strategies across technology and corporate services categories. You will drive value through strategic procurement, negotiations, supplier relationships, and contract lifecycle management.

Partner with senior stakeholders, technology teams, and suppliers to deliver cost optimization, risk mitigation, service excellence, and long-term strategic value.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 progressive years experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or category management with major IT exposure.
• Proven experience within large multinational or highly matrixed corporate environments.
• Proven expertise in strategic procurement and commercial negotiations, including: Enterprise software licensing, Cloud based solutions and IP rights.

Aufgaben

• Develop and implement category strategies aligned with organizational objectives.
• Lead strategic sourcing and commercial management across technology-related categories.
• Review pricing structures, payment milestones, renewals, and intellectual property provisions.
• Managing vendor governance and strategic supplier relationships.
• Lead complex commercial negotiations and contractual discussions with suppliers.
• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, governance requirements, and approval.
• Drive supplier performance improvements through structured KPI and SLA management.
• Identify commercial, operational, and supplier risks across procurement categories.
• Develop mitigation strategies to ensure business continuity and supply resilience.
• Maintain compliance with corporate policies, regulatory requirements, and procurement best practices.

Kenntnisse

Strategic procurement

Vendor management

Contract negotiations

KPI & SLA management

Cost optimization

Ausbildung

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline

Tools

Oracle

Microsoft

SAP

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Jobbeschreibung

We are seeking an experienced Strategic Technology Sourcing & Procurement Manager to lead the development and execution of sourcing strategies across technology and corporate services categories. This role will be responsible for driving value through strategic procurement, commercial negotiations, supplier relationship management, and end-to-end contract lifecycle management.

The successful candidate will partner closely with senior business stakeholders, technology teams, legal teams, and suppliers to deliver cost optimization, risk mitigation, service excellence, and long-term strategic value.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management

• Develop and implement category strategies aligned with organizational objectives.
• Deliver strategic procurement initiatives that enhance value, reduce risk, and improve supplier performance.

Lead strategic sourcing and commercial management across technology-related categories, including:

• Enterprise software licensing (Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and similar platforms).
• Cloud services and consumption-based commercial models (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and related solutions).

Key responsibilities include:

• Reviewing pricing structures, payment milestones, renewals, and intellectual property provisions.
• Managing vendor governance and strategic supplier relationships.
• Lead complex commercial negotiations and contractual discussions with suppliers.
• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, governance requirements, and approval
• Drive supplier performance improvements through structured KPI and SLA management.
• Identify commercial, operational, and supplier risks across procurement categories.
• Develop mitigation strategies to ensure business continuity and supply resilience.
• Maintain compliance with corporate policies, regulatory requirements, and procurement best practices.

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 progressive years experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or category management with major IT exposure.
• Proven experience within large multinational or highly matrixed corporate environments.
• Proven expertise in strategic procurement and commercial negotiations, including:
• Enterprise software licensing (Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, etc.)
• Cloud based solutions and associated commercial modelling, including Google, Azure, AWS, etc.
• Software development contracts, including IP rights, pricing models, payment milestones, etc.
• Comprehensive spend and category analysis, development and implementation of robust category strategies
• Support and maintenance agreements, including availability, uptime/downtime, SLAs/KPIs models, penalty structuring (Primary focus – approximately 70% of workload)