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INTRODUCTION
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Director of Low Voltage Vendor Sourcing & Supplier Management Services to lead the global program responsible for sourcing, commercial management, and supplier performance for the cabling and low voltage work supporting OCI’s worldwide data center capacity delivery.
This Director will lead a geographically distributed team of IC3–IC5 supplier management professionals responsible for supplier relationships, negotiations, qualification and onboarding, performance management, market analysis, and commercial execution. The Director will establish program strategy, organizational priorities, operating standards, and measurable goals, with accountability for results across regions.
A primary responsibility is to reduce global LVV labor costs while maintaining installation quality, supplier capacity, safety, and on-time delivery. This leader will build a disciplined cost reduction program using competitive sourcing, regional labor market intelligence, transparent pricing, demand aggregation, productivity improvements, and strategic supplier negotiations. Strong supplier relationships and consistent quality management will support dependable execution and sustained cost improvements.
The role requires an experienced people leader who can develop senior individual contributors, direct a critical global program, and influence decisions across Engineering, Infrastructure Delivery, Procurement, Finance, Business Operations, and regional leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Global Program Strategy and Accountability
Own the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and ongoing operation of the global LVV sourcing and supplier management program.
- Translate OCI capacity plans into regional sourcing priorities, supplier coverage requirements, and commercial commitments.
- Establish consistent global processes, decision rights, and escalation paths while accommodating regional market conditions.
- Present program performance, commercial recommendations, and material risks to senior leadership, including VPs.
Global LVV Labor Cost Reduction
Establish and lead a global program to reduce LVV labor costs, with measurable annual goals and clear regional accountability.
- Develop visibility into labor rates, crew composition, installation productivity, overtime, mobilization charges, subcontractor markups, and change orders.
- Benchmark comparable work across suppliers and regions, accounting for differences in scope, labor markets, and delivery conditions.
- Direct competitive bids, rate negotiations, demand aggregation, and supplier allocation strategies to improve commercial terms.
- Partner with Engineering and delivery teams to standardize work, improve installation efficiency, reduce rework, and avoid unnecessary labor expense.
- Validate realized savings with Finance and Business Operations, distinguishing negotiated savings, cost avoidance, and actual reductions in comparable delivery costs.
People and Organizational Leadership
Lead, coach, and develop a global team of IC3–IC5 professionals, with clear ownership of suppliers, regions, and strategic initiatives.
- Own organizational structure, headcount planning, recruiting priorities, performance management, talent reviews, and succession planning.
- Establish measurable individual and team goals tied to cost, quality, capacity readiness, supplier performance, and execution.
- Develop future leaders and strengthen the team’s commercial judgment, analytical capability, negotiation skills, and executive communication.
- Allocate resources across regions and initiatives based on business impact, delivery risk, and program priorities.
Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Development
Direct supplier market assessments, competitive analysis, cost modeling, and evaluation of supply chain alternatives.
- Oversee qualification and onboarding of suppliers that meet OCI’s technical, commercial, capacity, and geographic requirements.
- Lead the strategy for supplier rates, contracts, and short- and long-term commitments in partnership with Procurement and Legal.
- Build supplier coverage and contingency options that address capacity constraints and concentration risk.
- Establish executive relationships with strategic suppliers and lead significant negotiations and escalations.
Supplier Quality Performance and Relationship Management
Own the global supplier quality and performance management program, establishing consistent expectations for installation workmanship, technical compliance, testing, documentation, and corrective action in partnership with Engineering and delivery teams.
- Hold suppliers accountable for quality and delivery outcomes through scorecards, monthly and quarterly business reviews, root cause analysis, and sustained corrective action.
- Track defects, rework, acceptance results, and recurring performance issues to improve supplier execution and reduce the total cost of delivery.
- Build and maintain strategic supplier relationships that support competitive labor costs, dependable capacity, continuous improvement, and long-term delivery needs.
- Establish executive relationships with key suppliers and ensure the team maintains clear communication, mutual accountability, and timely resolution of commercial and operational issues.
- Incorporate quality, responsiveness, collaboration, and delivery reliability into supplier selection, work allocation, and ongoing relationship decisions.
- Partner with suppliers to improve workforce capability, installation practices, and productivity while maintaining quality and safety.
- Oversee resolution of material commercial disputes and supplier performance failures with Procurement, Legal, and delivery stakeholders.
Financial Planning and Cross Functional Influence
Partner with Business Operations and Finance to forecast and optimize capital spending associated with LVV suppliers.
- Align commercial strategies with technical requirements, delivery schedules, and regional execution plans.
- Resolve competing priorities across organizations and recommend actions that balance cost, supplier readiness, quality, and delivery risk.
- Establish executive dashboards that connect supplier performance and sourcing decisions to capacity delivery and financial outcomes.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree, or equivalent experience relevant to the functional area.
- Demonstrated people management experience leading geographically distributed professionals and developing senior individual contributors.
- Experience directing complex sourcing, supplier management, or infrastructure programs across multiple regions.
- Experience with low voltage and cabling services supporting data centers or comparable infrastructure environments.
- Demonstrated success reducing supplier labor costs through sourcing, negotiations, cost analysis, or productivity improvements.
- Experience negotiating supplier rates, contracts, and capacity commitments.
- Experience managing supplier quality, corrective action programs, and strategic supplier relationships.
- Strong financial and analytical skills, including cost modeling, spending forecasts, supplier benchmarking, and savings validation.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex commercial decisions, risks, and recommendations clearly.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting hyperscale cloud infrastructure or global data center capacity delivery.
- Experience managing managers or technical leads.
- Experience building global vendor performance management programs and regional supplier strategies.
- Knowledge of regional installation labor markets, supplier delivery models, and labor cost drivers.
- Experience establishing organizational processes, developing future leaders, and influencing practices across a division.
Measures of Success
Realized reductions in global LVV labor costs against agreed baselines.
- Improved labor rates, installation productivity, and comparable unit costs.
- Supplier capacity and regional coverage aligned with OCI delivery requirements.
- Consistent supplier quality and on-time execution, with reduced defects and rework.
- Productive strategic supplier relationships that support accountability, continuous improvement, and timely issue resolution.
- Accurate spending forecasts and validated savings reporting.
- A strong, accountable global team with demonstrated talent development and success.
INTRODUCTION
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Director of Low Voltage Vendor Sourcing & Supplier Management Services to lead the global program responsible for sourcing, commercial management, and supplier performance for the cabling and low voltage work supporting OCI’s worldwide data center capacity delivery.
This Director will lead a geographically distributed team of IC3–IC5 supplier management professionals responsible for supplier relationships, negotiations, qualification and onboarding, performance management, market analysis, and commercial execution. The Director will establish program strategy, organizational priorities, operating standards, and measurable goals, with accountability for results across regions.
A primary responsibility is to reduce global LVV labor costs while maintaining installation quality, supplier capacity, safety, and on-time delivery. This leader will build a disciplined cost reduction program using competitive sourcing, regional labor market intelligence, transparent pricing, demand aggregation, productivity improvements, and strategic supplier negotiations. Strong supplier relationships and consistent quality management will support dependable execution and sustained cost improvements.
The role requires an experienced people leader who can develop senior individual contributors, direct a critical global program, and influence decisions across Engineering, Infrastructure Delivery, Procurement, Finance, Business Operations, and regional leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Global Program Strategy and Accountability
Own the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and ongoing operation of the global LVV sourcing and supplier management program.
- Translate OCI capacity plans into regional sourcing priorities, supplier coverage requirements, and commercial commitments.
- Establish consistent global processes, decision rights, and escalation paths while accommodating regional market conditions.
- Present program performance, commercial recommendations, and material risks to senior leadership, including VPs.
Global LVV Labor Cost Reduction
Establish and lead a global program to reduce LVV labor costs, with measurable annual goals and clear regional accountability.
- Develop visibility into labor rates, crew composition, installation productivity, overtime, mobilization charges, subcontractor markups, and change orders.
- Benchmark comparable work across suppliers and regions, accounting for differences in scope, labor markets, and delivery conditions.
- Direct competitive bids, rate negotiations, demand aggregation, and supplier allocation strategies to improve commercial terms.
- Partner with Engineering and delivery teams to standardize work, improve installation efficiency, reduce rework, and avoid unnecessary labor expense.
- Validate realized savings with Finance and Business Operations, distinguishing negotiated savings, cost avoidance, and actual reductions in comparable delivery costs.
People and Organizational Leadership
Lead, coach, and develop a global team of IC3–IC5 professionals, with clear ownership of suppliers, regions, and strategic initiatives.
- Own organizational structure, headcount planning, recruiting priorities, performance management, talent reviews, and succession planning.
- Establish measurable individual and team goals tied to cost, quality, capacity readiness, supplier performance, and execution.
- Develop future leaders and strengthen the team’s commercial judgment, analytical capability, negotiation skills, and executive communication.
- Allocate resources across regions and initiatives based on business impact, delivery risk, and program priorities.
Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Development
Direct supplier market assessments, competitive analysis, cost modeling, and evaluation of supply chain alternatives.
- Oversee qualification and onboarding of suppliers that meet OCI’s technical, commercial, capacity, and geographic requirements.
- Lead the strategy for supplier rates, contracts, and short- and long-term commitments in partnership with Procurement and Legal.
- Build supplier coverage and contingency options that address capacity constraints and concentration risk.
- Establish executive relationships with strategic suppliers and lead significant negotiations and escalations.
Supplier Quality Performance and Relationship Management
Own the global supplier quality and performance management program, establishing consistent expectations for installation workmanship, technical compliance, testing, documentation, and corrective action in partnership with Engineering and delivery teams.
- Hold suppliers accountable for quality and delivery outcomes through scorecards, monthly and quarterly business reviews, root cause analysis, and sustained corrective action.
- Track defects, rework, acceptance results, and recurring performance issues to improve supplier execution and reduce the total cost of delivery.
- Build and maintain strategic supplier relationships that support competitive labor costs, dependable capacity, continuous improvement, and long-term delivery needs.
- Establish executive relationships with key suppliers and ensure the team maintains clear communication, mutual accountability, and timely resolution of commercial and operational issues.
- Incorporate quality, responsiveness, collaboration, and delivery reliability into supplier selection, work allocation, and ongoing relationship decisions.
- Partner with suppliers to improve workforce capability, installation practices, and productivity while maintaining quality and safety.
- Oversee resolution of material commercial disputes and supplier performance failures with Procurement, Legal, and delivery stakeholders.
Financial Planning and Cross Functional Influence
Partner with Business Operations and Finance to forecast and optimize capital spending associated with LVV suppliers.
- Align commercial strategies with technical requirements, delivery schedules, and regional execution plans.
- Resolve competing priorities across organizations and recommend actions that balance cost, supplier readiness, quality, and delivery risk.
- Establish executive dashboards that connect supplier performance and sourcing decisions to capacity delivery and financial outcomes.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree, or equivalent experience relevant to the functional area.
- Demonstrated people management experience leading geographically distributed professionals and developing senior individual contributors.
- Experience directing complex sourcing, supplier management, or infrastructure programs across multiple regions.
- Experience with low voltage and cabling services supporting data centers or comparable infrastructure environments.
- Demonstrated success reducing supplier labor costs through sourcing, negotiations, cost analysis, or productivity improvements.
- Experience negotiating supplier rates, contracts, and capacity commitments.
- Experience managing supplier quality, corrective action programs, and strategic supplier relationships.
- Strong financial and analytical skills, including cost modeling, spending forecasts, supplier benchmarking, and savings validation.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex commercial decisions, risks, and recommendations clearly.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting hyperscale cloud infrastructure or global data center capacity delivery.
- Experience managing managers or technical leads.
- Experience building global vendor performance management programs and regional supplier strategies.
- Knowledge of regional installation labor markets, supplier delivery models, and labor cost drivers.
- Experience establishing organizational processes, developing future leaders, and influencing practices across a division.
Measures of Success
Realized reductions in global LVV labor costs against agreed baselines.
- Improved labor rates, installation productivity, and comparable unit costs.
- Supplier capacity and regional coverage aligned with OCI delivery requirements.
- Consistent supplier quality and on-time execution, with reduced defects and rework.
- Productive strategic supplier relationships that support accountability, continuous improvement, and timely issue resolution.
- Accurate spending forecasts and validated savings reporting.
- A strong, accountable global team with demonstrated talent development and success.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in vendor management specialist jobs.
- Three to five years of experience in vendor management, procurement, or supply chain operations
- Proficiency with procurement platforms such as Coupa, SAP Ariba, or Oracle Procurement Cloud
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate vendor contracts, SLAs, and pricing agreements
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, supply chain management, or a related field
- Experience conducting vendor performance reviews, scorecards, and risk assessments
- Familiarity with contract lifecycle management tools and documentation processes
Tips for Your Vendor Management Specialist Job Search
Quantify supplier savings on your resume
Hiring managers for vendor management specialist roles want to see cost reduction numbers, not just duties. Pull actual figures from past roles, such as the percentage of contract renewals you negotiated down or the number of vendors you consolidated, and lead each bullet with that outcome.
Highlight your contract lifecycle experience early
Many applicants bury contract management experience deep in their resume. Move it up. If you have handled vendor onboarding, SLA monitoring, or renewal negotiations, those phrases should appear in your summary and in your first listed role, not just at the bottom.
Filter openings by procurement software fluency
Roles in this field split sharply between companies using Coupa, SAP Ariba, and Oracle Procurement Cloud. When searching, match the platform in the job description to your own experience first, since employers screening resumes often filter on specific tool names before reading further.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists vendor management specialist openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a vendor risk scenario for interviews
Interviewers for vendor management specialist positions almost always ask how you have handled a supplier who missed a delivery deadline or breached contract terms. Prepare a specific story with the vendor type, the breach, your escalation steps, and the resolution before you walk in.
Negotiate by anchoring to market benchmarks
When discussing compensation, reference Bureau of Labor Statistics data for procurement and contracts roles in your geography. Framing your ask around publicly available wage benchmarks for the function, not just your previous salary, keeps the conversation grounded and professional.
Vendor Management Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most vendor management specialists?
The most active employers for vendor management specialists right now are Amazon, CSL, and Ramp, and the most openings are in New York, California, and Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, large financial institutions, and enterprise technology companies tend to maintain the most consistent demand for this role.
How many vendor management specialist jobs are remote?
About 75% of vendor management specialist openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for flexible arrangements across the profession. Contract review, vendor performance tracking, and procurement system work translate well to remote settings, while roles involving on-site supplier audits or warehouse coordination lean more toward in-person or hybrid schedules.
How do you become a vendor management specialist?
Start by building experience in purchasing, contract administration, or supply chain coordination, since most employers expect you to have handled vendor relationships directly before stepping into a specialist role. A degree in business, supply chain, or operations helps, and certifications like the Certified Professional in Supply Management strengthen your candidacy. Develop fluency in at least one major procurement platform, then target roles where you can own vendor onboarding and performance review processes.
Can I get hired as a vendor management specialist with little experience?
Yes, entry-level vendor management specialist roles do exist, particularly in larger organizations that have structured procurement teams. Focus on adjacent experience such as purchasing assistant work, vendor data entry, or contract support roles, and frame that experience around the vendor lifecycle. Demonstrating comfort with spreadsheets, vendor portals, and basic contract terms will make your application competitive even without a dedicated vendor management title on your resume.
What does the vendor management specialist interview process look like?
Most interview processes for this role include an initial phone or video screen focused on your procurement background, followed by one or two rounds covering behavioral questions about vendor disputes, contract negotiations, and cross-functional collaboration. Some employers add a written exercise asking you to evaluate a mock SLA or flag risk in a sample vendor scorecard. References from past managers who can speak to your contract and supplier work are commonly requested in final stages.
Where can I find and apply to vendor management specialist jobs?
You can find and apply to vendor management specialist jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your experience and preferences, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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