Enterprise IT & Technology Strategic Sourcing Senior Leader

Trucordia Insurance Services, LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Insurance

AD&D

FSA / HSA

Commuter & Child Care FSA

Pet Insurance

Accident & Critical Illness

Hospital Indemnity

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

11 Paid Holidays

Flexible PTO

401K

Job summary

Trucordia Insurance Services, LLC is seeking an Enterprise IT & Technology Strategic Sourcing Senior Leader to build a modern procurement organization. Remote role with a focus on software, cybersecurity, AI/SaaS, and IT services across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate will lead category strategies, supplier governance, and multi-year roadmaps, partnering with Finance, Legal, and Privacy to deliver value and risk mitigation in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years in Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, or Category Management for technology categories.
• Demonstrated success in software, cybersecurity, AI/SaaS, IT, or tech services sourcing.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Excel, Power BI, ERP systems, and procurement tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end sourcing across software, cybersecurity, AI/SaaS, IT and services.
• Develop category strategies, playbooks, and governance for enterprise priorities.
• Negotiate complex commercial terms and optimize total cost of ownership.
• Partner with IT, Finance, Legal, Privacy and Operations to align requirements.

Skills

Strategic Sourcing

Category Management

Negotiations

Stakeholder Management

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

Tools

Excel

Power BI

NetSuite

Jira

Job description

Enterprise IT & Technology Strategic Sourcing Senior Leader

• Full-time
• Department Name: Finance & Accounting
• Office Type: Remote

Extraordinary opportunity. Exceptional experience.

Sometimes in life, you find yourself in the right place, at the right time, looking at an opportunity so extraordinary it cannot be ignored. At Trucordia, our company is built on wildly successful businesses in our communities across the country, and now we’ve come together to create the next great insurance brokerage. We offer an unrivaled combination of people, tools and solutions, and deliver exceptional experiences and opportunities for our employees, clients and stakeholders.

We celebrate both individual successes and collective accomplishments, making sure the industry recognizes the remarkable company we’re building together, as well as the impact we’re having on our clients and communities. Ranked as one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. for three consecutive years, we have more than 5,000 team members across 200 offices across the country, who actively, genuinely care about our clients, each other and the quality of our work, and in every interaction, represent a company that people want to work for and do business with.

Trucordia Values

• We actively, genuinely CARE about our clients, each other and the quality of our work, and in every interaction, represent a company that people want to work for and do business with.
• We COLLABORATE continuously because, together, we are more powerful and make amazing things happen for our clients and company.
• We LEAD with intelligence, hunger, curiosity, energy and a future-focused attitude of “what’s next”?
• We are RESULT-ORIENTED, growth-focused and driven to out-perform expectations of what an insurance brokerage can achieve.
• We CELEBRATE both individual successes and collective accomplishments, making sure the industry recognizes the remarkable company we’re building together, as well as the impact we’re having on our clients and communities.

Trucordia is seeking an IT & Technology Strategic Sourcing Leader, Enterprise Procurement to support the building and scaling of a modern procurement organization that supports enterprise growth, operational excellence, supplier governance, and value creation. This role is responsible for leading sourcing initiatives, developing category strategies, building category playbooks, creating supplier strategies, managing commercial negotiations, and partnering with business stakeholders across software, cybersecurity, AI/SaaS, IT, professional services, and assigned indirect categories.

The successful candidate will contribute to the continued development of Trucordia’s procurement operating model by helping create scalable sourcing capabilities, category management disciplines, supplier governance practices, technology-enabled processes, and data-driven decision making.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management

• Lead end-to-end sourcing initiatives across software, cybersecurity, AI/SaaS, IT, professional services, and assigned indirect categories.
• Develop and execute category strategies aligned to enterprise objectives.
• Conduct market analysis, supplier assessments, benchmarking, and sourcing events.
• Lead complex commercial negotiations and identify value creation opportunities.

Category Strategy & Ownership

• Develop category strategies, supplier strategies, multi-year roadmaps, category playbooks, and governance approaches that support enterprise priorities and business growth.
• Maintain supplier segmentation, renewal visibility, preferred supplier programs, and category governance approaches.
• Monitor technology markets, licensing and consumption models, pricing movements, supplier innovation, risks, cybersecurity developments, and emerging AI solutions.
• Provide category intelligence, benchmarking insights, and strategic recommendations.
• Translate enterprise technology priorities into category-level sourcing and supplier strategies.

Business Partnership

• Build trusted relationships across IT, Cybersecurity, Finance, Legal, Privacy, Operations, and other business functions.
• Engage stakeholders early to influence technology requirements, supplier decisions, commercial strategies, and build-versus-buy considerations.
• Support supplier lifecycle management, performance management, renewal planning, supplier rationalization, and supplier optimization initiatives.
• Negotiate software licensing, SaaS subscriptions, AI solutions, cybersecurity platforms, IT services, implementation services, and professional services arrangements.
• Address pricing, usage and consumption commitments, renewal escalators, audit and true-up exposure, service levels, termination rights, data rights, and total cost of ownership.

Procurement Transformation

• Support procurement policies, technology acquisition governance, third-party risk requirements, operating model improvements, tools, templates, and sourcing frameworks.

Technology, Analytics, & AI Enablement

• Analyze technology spend, supplier, contract, licensing, usage, renewal, and category data.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, reporting, business cases, and recommendations.
• Utilize Excel, Power BI, AI-enabled tools, and procurement technologies to improve business outcomes.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience, plus 5+ years in Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Category Management, Supplier Management, or Supply Chain, with demonstrated responsibility for software, cybersecurity, AI/SaaS, IT, or technology services categories.
• Demonstrated success leading complex technology sourcing initiatives and commercial negotiations, with strong understanding of software licensing, SaaS subscription/consumption models, cybersecurity requirements, and technology commercial constructs.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, and the Microsoft Office Suite; Power BI; NetSuite or equivalent ERP; Zip or equivalent procurement workflow platform; and Jira or equivalent project management tool. Familiarity with contract lifecycle management, software asset management, SaaS management, and third-party risk tools is a plus.
• Comfortable independently analyzing technology spend, licensing, usage, supplier, contract, and category data, and building business cases and executive presentations that translate findings into actionable recommendations for senior leaders.
• Thrives in fast-paced, high-growth, and evolving environments, with the flexibility and judgment to contribute beyond traditional functional boundaries.

Nice to have:

• Experience developing technology category strategies, playbooks, supplier segmentation models, sourcing roadmaps, and renewal governance.
• Experience negotiating enterprise software, SaaS, cybersecurity, AI, cloud, managed services, implementation, or IT professional services agreements.
• Experience managing technology categories in insurance, financial services, professional services, technology, or other complex enterprise environments.
• Skilled in spend, supplier, licensing, usage, and benchmarking analysis, with a track record of turning findings into decision-support materials for leadership.
• Experience supporting procurement transformation initiatives and multi-site, acquisition-driven, or high-growth organizations.

Please see our company Benefits:

• Life Insurance
• AD&D
• FSA / HSA
• Commuter & Child Care FSA
• Pet Insurance
• Accident & Critical Illness
• Hospital Indemnity
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Flexible PTO
• 401K

Trucordia is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that every employee has the right to work in an environment that is free from all forms of discrimination. It is our policy that all decisions involving any aspect of the employment relationship such as hiring, compensation and training, promotions, transfers, discipline, and termination will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Such decisions will be made without regard to age, ancestry, color, race, national origin, disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, military service, veteran status, citizenship status, religion, creed, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, childbirth, marital status, or any other condition, characteristic or activity protected by law. Discrimination based on any of these factors is contrary to our operating philosophy. Attention Recruitment Agencies: Trucordia does not accept unsolicited resumes from any agencies that have not signed a mutual service agreement. All unsolicited resumes will be considered property of Trucordia, and we will not be obligated to pay a referral fee. This includes resumes submitted directly to hiring managers without contacting Trucordia's Talent Acquisition Department.