Senior Public IT Procurement Team Lead

Digerati Systems Inc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Digerati Systems Inc. seeks a Senior Procurement Project Manager – Team Lead to drive complex technology and IT services procurements across public-sector clients.

You will lead teams and contribute hands-on to solicitation development, evaluations, negotiations, and contract awards. You will coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, manage schedules, and deliver procurement plans from planning through transition to delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience leading and executing complex procurement, contracting, acquisition, or related procurement project activities.
• 5+ years of public-sector/government procurement or contracting experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale technology modernization, systems integration, managed services, cloud/data, enterprise software, or similarly complex IT initiatives and 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and work alongside procurement and contract resources supporting multiple concurrent technology procurement initiatives.
• Execute procurement strategies and plans, advising on contracting vehicles, approaches, sequencing, schedules, risks, and implementation considerations.
• Lead complex technology and professional IT services procurements from planning through solicitation, evaluation, negotiation, and contract award.
• Develop and coordinate procurement packages including statements of work, RFPs/RFQs, scopes of work, evaluation criteria, schedules, and attachments.
• Develop and manage procurement project plans, milestones, dependencies, assignments, priorities, review cycles, and critical-path activities.
• Coordinate with business, technical, procurement, legal, finance, management, and other stakeholders to complete procurement activities.
• Plan vendor-facing activities including pre-proposal conferences, Q&A, addenda, negotiations, and activities through vendor selection and award.
• Plan vendor presentations and demonstrations during evaluation periods, including schedules, participants, evaluation requirements, and scoring.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Public-sector procurement

Project management

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Vendor communications

Requirements development

Evaluation processes

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Digerati Systems Inc. seeks a Senior Procurement Project Manager – Team Lead to drive complex technology and IT services procurements across public-sector clients.

You will lead teams and contribute hands-on to solicitation development, evaluations, negotiations, and contract awards. You will coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, manage schedules, and deliver procurement plans from planning through transition to delivery.