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Get Access To All JobsAt Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors - Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together - help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
Director, Global Procurement - Technology, AI & Contact Center
Introduction to the Team
Our Corporate Functions are made up of teams that support Expedia Group, including our Global Finance Org., Legal Team, Strategy and Corporate Development Team, and People & Places Org.
Global Procurement & AP is the value creation engine for Expedia Group's vendor spend, partnering with leaders across every part of the company. Our team works across multiple global hub locations to address more than $5B+ of corporate vendor spend, partnering with 1.5K vendors and hundreds of Expedians to deliver impact.
We run as one globally aligned Source-to-Pay (“S2P”) organization: Sourcing leaders apply strategic business partnerships, category strategies, and sourcing discipline, while Operations, Programs, COE and Digital S2P teams enable scale, quality, innovation, and agility across the full lifecycle, including business travel, employee expense, and payables.
We aspire to be a world-class, stakeholder-aligned, digitally transforming source-to-pay capability that maximizes total business value, reduces risk and friction, and improves the end-to-end user experience. Our priorities include delivering margin expansion, speed to value, risk management, digital transformation, and empowering our team through skill and career growth.
Make An Impact!
As Director, Technology, AI & Contact Center categories, you will lead the sourcing strategy, contracts and vendor relationships for one of Expedia Group's largest and dynamic spend areas, overseeing approx. $1B of annual spend. You will be a member of the Global Procurement & AP leadership team, a key influencer towards modernizing the function, and a trusted partner to senior leaders in Technology, Customer Service, Finance and Legal.
In This Role You Will:
- Set the multi-year category strategy for Technology, AI and Contact Center spend, delivering savings, cost avoidance, working capital improvements, and margin expansion
- Sponsor and steer transformation such as tooling, AI enablement and new operating models, with documented business outcomes rather than activity
- Lead negotiation of strategic contracts and partnerships, including crucial AI agreements and long-term strategies with a high bar for terms, risk and renewals
- Build strong relationships and partnerships with senior stakeholders and strategic vendors, and drive 360-degree vendor decision-making
- Turn enterprise strategy into clear category strategies and roadmaps, and explain trade-offs to executives
- Role model the use of agentic AI and automation in sourcing work, championing adoption of emerging and autonomous agentic workflows to deliver success for business leaders and team members across the Source-to-Pay roadmap
- Build a layer of capable managers and senior individual contributors, so the team is highly empowered and engaged. You lead by setting goals, coaching, and building future leaders
- Represent Global Procurement & AP with Finance, Legal, Technology and business leaders, helping shape the function's priorities and measures of success
Experience and Qualifications
- Deep category expertise in technology, software, cloud, AI or contact center sourcing, and a record of delivering measurable savings, vendor innovation, and risk reduction
- Proven record of strategic category management: building a stakeholder community, multi-year roadmaps, category strategies, and meaningful financial returns (savings, cost avoidance, revenue)
- Proven skill negotiating large, complex agreements and managing strategic vendor relationships
- Experience leading high-performing teams as both a line manager and a subject authority
- Ability to turn innovative ideas into practice, using AI and automation in sourcing, negotiation and contract workflows. You inspire and lead modernized sourcing outcomes in partnership with data, process excellence, and agentic frameworks
- Advanced leadership and decision-making skills, strong communication and influence with senior executives, and the ability to role model adaptive leadership capacity in a swiftly changing industry and business environment
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, with 8+ years of experience that substantially includes people management
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $207,500.00 to $290,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $332,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits and perks
Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.
Accommodation requests
Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors - Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together - help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
Director, Global Procurement - Technology, AI & Contact Center
Introduction to the Team
Our Corporate Functions are made up of teams that support Expedia Group, including our Global Finance Org., Legal Team, Strategy and Corporate Development Team, and People & Places Org.
Global Procurement & AP is the value creation engine for Expedia Group's vendor spend, partnering with leaders across every part of the company. Our team works across multiple global hub locations to address more than $5B+ of corporate vendor spend, partnering with 1.5K vendors and hundreds of Expedians to deliver impact.
We run as one globally aligned Source-to-Pay (“S2P”) organization: Sourcing leaders apply strategic business partnerships, category strategies, and sourcing discipline, while Operations, Programs, COE and Digital S2P teams enable scale, quality, innovation, and agility across the full lifecycle, including business travel, employee expense, and payables.
We aspire to be a world-class, stakeholder-aligned, digitally transforming source-to-pay capability that maximizes total business value, reduces risk and friction, and improves the end-to-end user experience. Our priorities include delivering margin expansion, speed to value, risk management, digital transformation, and empowering our team through skill and career growth.
Make An Impact!
As Director, Technology, AI & Contact Center categories, you will lead the sourcing strategy, contracts and vendor relationships for one of Expedia Group's largest and dynamic spend areas, overseeing approx. $1B of annual spend. You will be a member of the Global Procurement & AP leadership team, a key influencer towards modernizing the function, and a trusted partner to senior leaders in Technology, Customer Service, Finance and Legal.
In This Role You Will:
- Set the multi-year category strategy for Technology, AI and Contact Center spend, delivering savings, cost avoidance, working capital improvements, and margin expansion
- Sponsor and steer transformation such as tooling, AI enablement and new operating models, with documented business outcomes rather than activity
- Lead negotiation of strategic contracts and partnerships, including crucial AI agreements and long-term strategies with a high bar for terms, risk and renewals
- Build strong relationships and partnerships with senior stakeholders and strategic vendors, and drive 360-degree vendor decision-making
- Turn enterprise strategy into clear category strategies and roadmaps, and explain trade-offs to executives
- Role model the use of agentic AI and automation in sourcing work, championing adoption of emerging and autonomous agentic workflows to deliver success for business leaders and team members across the Source-to-Pay roadmap
- Build a layer of capable managers and senior individual contributors, so the team is highly empowered and engaged. You lead by setting goals, coaching, and building future leaders
- Represent Global Procurement & AP with Finance, Legal, Technology and business leaders, helping shape the function's priorities and measures of success
Experience and Qualifications
- Deep category expertise in technology, software, cloud, AI or contact center sourcing, and a record of delivering measurable savings, vendor innovation, and risk reduction
- Proven record of strategic category management: building a stakeholder community, multi-year roadmaps, category strategies, and meaningful financial returns (savings, cost avoidance, revenue)
- Proven skill negotiating large, complex agreements and managing strategic vendor relationships
- Experience leading high-performing teams as both a line manager and a subject authority
- Ability to turn innovative ideas into practice, using AI and automation in sourcing, negotiation and contract workflows. You inspire and lead modernized sourcing outcomes in partnership with data, process excellence, and agentic frameworks
- Advanced leadership and decision-making skills, strong communication and influence with senior executives, and the ability to role model adaptive leadership capacity in a swiftly changing industry and business environment
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, with 8+ years of experience that substantially includes people management
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $207,500.00 to $290,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $332,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits and perks
Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.
Accommodation requests
Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
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Verify your degree meets specialty occupation criteria
Procurement roles must require a bachelor's degree in a directly related field to qualify under H-1B1 visa. Titles like Procurement Analyst or Strategic Sourcing Manager typically qualify; generalist buyer roles may not. Check your job description against O*NET before applying.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter procurement job listings by employers who have previously filed Labor Condition Applications for supply chain and sourcing roles, which signals genuine H-1B1 visa sponsorship capacity rather than employers who say they sponsor but haven't done it.
Confirm your employer knows H-1B1 differs from H-1B
Many U.S. hiring managers conflate H-1B1 visa with H-1B visa. Clarify upfront that H-1B1 requires no lottery, no USCIS petition, and is consulate-processed directly in Singapore, so their HR team doesn't mistakenly prepare for the wrong visa workflow.
Benchmark your offer against DOL prevailing wage data
Your employer must certify your salary meets the prevailing wage for your procurement role and work location via an LCA filed with DOL. Run the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating your offer to ensure the salary tier is LCA-eligible in your target city.
Prepare your credential documents before the job offer stage
Gather official transcripts, your degree certificate, and any professional certifications such as CIPS or CPSM before you start interviewing. Singaporean three-year degrees are generally accepted, but having a credential evaluation ready removes delays once an offer is extended.
Account for the consular appointment timeline in your start date
H-1B1 visa applications are processed at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore, not through USCIS. Consular appointment slots vary by period, so negotiate a start date with your employer that allows at least four to six weeks after your LCA is certified.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do procurement roles qualify as specialty occupations under the H-1B1?
Procurement roles qualify when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as supply chain management, business administration, or engineering. Titles like Strategic Sourcing Manager or Procurement Analyst typically meet this standard. Generalist purchasing roles where any degree is acceptable may not satisfy the specialty occupation requirement, so your job description needs to specify degree field requirements clearly.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa differ from the H-1B for procurement professionals?
The H-1B1 visa has no lottery and an annual cap of 5,400 visas that has never been exhausted, so Singaporean procurement professionals can apply at any time without competing in a randomized selection. The H-1B process requires USCIS to approve a petition before consular processing; the H-1B1 goes directly to the U.S. Embassy in Singapore. The H-1B1 is also issued for one year at a time rather than three, so renewals happen more frequently.
Where can I find procurement employers who actively sponsor H-1B1 Singapore visas?
Migrate Mate surfaces procurement job listings filtered by employers with verified Labor Condition Application filing history, which shows who has actually sponsored work visas for sourcing and supply chain roles rather than simply stating they are open to sponsorship. This filtering is especially useful for H-1B1 visa because many employers are familiar with H-1B processes but haven't specifically sponsored H-1B1 applicants before.
Can my employer renew my H-1B1 indefinitely for a procurement role?
H-1B1 visa status can be renewed in one-year increments with no statutory limit on the number of renewals, as long as you remain employed in a qualifying specialty occupation role. Each renewal requires a new LCA certification filed with DOL and a new consular application or status extension. There is no equivalent of the H-1B's six-year cap, which makes long-term procurement careers viable on this status.
What happens to my H-1B1 status if I change procurement employers in the U.S.?
Changing employers on H-1B1 requires your new employer to file a fresh LCA with DOL and then either file a change of status with USCIS or have you apply for a new H-1B1 visa at the consulate in Singapore. Unlike H-1B portability rules under AC21, there is no provision allowing you to start work with a new employer immediately upon filing. You must wait for the new authorization to be processed before beginning employment.