Senior IT Procurement Lead for Complex Tech Projects Austin

eStaff LLC; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

eStaff LLC in Austin seeks a Senior Procurement Project Manager Team Lead to guide complex technology procurements and lead cross-functional teams in a hybrid work setting.

The role combines hands-on execution with strategic leadership, owning procurement plans, schedules, and vendor engagement across public-sector initiatives. Austin-area candidates only, with deep experience in IT services and contracting.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience leading and executing complex procurement, contracting, acquisition, or related procurement project activities.
• Experience supporting large-scale technology modernization, systems integration, managed services, cloud/data, enterprise software, or similarly complex IT initiatives and procurements.
• Experience leading complex technology, systems integration, software, or professional IT services procurements.
• Experience leading procurement teams while remaining directly involved in procurement execution and deliverable development.
• Experience managing end-to-end competitive technology solicitations, including requirements/scope development, solicitation development, vendor communications and Q&A, evaluation activities, vendor presentations/demonstrations, vendor selection, negotiations, and contract award.
• Experience developing complex procurement documentation, including statements/scopes of work, requirements, evaluation criteria, solicitation attachments, schedules, and supporting materials.
• Strong project management skills with ability to drive multiple procurements, stakeholders, dependencies, reviews, approvals, and deadlines through completion.
• Strong written communication, facilitation, negotiation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and work alongside procurement and contract resources supporting multiple concurrent technology procurement initiatives.
• Execute established procurement strategies and plans while providing input regarding contracting vehicles, procurement approaches, sequencing, schedules, risks, and implementation considerations.
• Lead complex technology and professional services procurements from planning through solicitation, evaluation, negotiation, vendor selection, contract execution, and transition to delivery.
• Develop and coordinate procurement packages that may include DBITS statements of work, RFOs, TSS requests, RFPs/RFQs, scopes of work, requirements, evaluation criteria, schedules, attachments, and supporting procurement documentation.
• Develop and manage procurement project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, assignments, priorities, review cycles, approvals, and critical-path activities.
• Coordinate business, technical, procurement, legal, finance, management, and other stakeholders required to successfully complete procurement activities.
• Plan and coordinate vendor-facing activities including pre-proposal conferences, questions and answers, addenda, clarifications, negotiations, and other activities required through vendor selection and award.
• Plan and coordinate vendor presentations and demonstrations during evaluation periods, including schedules, participants, evaluation requirements, documentation, vendor communications, scoring activities, and follow-up.
• Develop and administer structured evaluation processes, scoring methodologies, evaluation tools, evaluator instructions, documentation, and evaluation-team activities.
• Navigate applicable public-sector procurement review, approval, posting, governance, and compliance requirements and identify dependencies or barriers that could affect procurement schedules.
• Personally develop, review, edit, and complete procurement deliverables as needed while also reviewing teamwork for quality, completeness, consistency, and readiness.
• Identify and help resolve procurement risks, issues, dependencies, bottlenecks, and schedule constraints; escalate matters requiring management direction when appropriate.
• Provide concise status, recommendations, risks, dependencies, and decision information to program and senior leadership.
• Help establish and improve repeatable procurement processes, templates, tracking mechanisms, and lessons learned across client engagements.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

eStaff LLC in Austin seeks a Senior Procurement Project Manager Team Lead to guide complex technology procurements and lead cross-functional teams in a hybrid work setting.

The role combines hands-on execution with strategic leadership, owning procurement plans, schedules, and vendor engagement across public-sector initiatives. Austin-area candidates only, with deep experience in IT services and contracting.