Senior Level Vendor Management Specialist Jobs
Senior level vendor management specialist jobs place experienced professionals at the helm of supplier strategy, contract performance, and the cross-functional teams that keep vendor relationships accountable. Openings concentrate in Energy, Technology & Software, and Banking & Financial Services, with a mix of on-site, remote, and hybrid settings, and employers like Ramp, Oracle, and Avangrid hiring at this level now.
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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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Senior Level Vendor Management Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level vendor management specialist job?
Employers at this level look for demonstrated ownership of vendor portfolios, not just participation in them. Candidates who can show they have led contract negotiations, built supplier scorecards from scratch, resolved escalated performance issues, and influenced procurement policy stand out. A history of mentoring junior specialists and presenting vendor risk assessments to leadership signals readiness for a senior role.
Which companies hire senior level vendor management specialists?
Companies hiring senior level vendor management specialists right now include Ramp, Oracle, and Avangrid, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring tends to come from large enterprises, managed services firms, and organizations running complex, multi-vendor supply chains that require experienced oversight.
Are there remote senior level vendor management specialist jobs?
Yes, though availability varies by industry and employer. About 40% of senior level vendor management specialist openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for experienced professionals who can manage distributed supplier relationships without being on-site full time. Fully remote roles are most common in technology and financial services.
What makes a vendor management specialist role senior level?
Senior level roles carry accountability for outcomes, not just tasks. That means owning the full vendor lifecycle, from sourcing strategy through contract renewal, managing risk across a portfolio of suppliers, and setting the standards that junior team members follow. Senior specialists are expected to influence internal stakeholders, lead cross-functional initiatives, and bring structured thinking to problems that do not have established playbooks.
Which industries hire the most senior level vendor management specialists?
Senior level vendor management specialist roles concentrate in Energy, Technology & Software, and Banking & Financial Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors tend to run large, complex supplier networks where the cost of poor vendor performance is high, making experienced oversight a consistent hiring priority rather than a situational one.