Associate Director, Strategic Sourcing

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $130k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Movable Ink

501 - 1000 employees

📣 Marketing

✈️ Travel

🏨 Hospitality

💰 $55M Series D on 2022-04

Marketing • Travel • Hospitality

Movable Ink is a leader in personalized marketing, utilizing AI and automation to deliver tailored content to customers across various touchpoints, such as email and mobile. Their solutions, including the Movable Ink Studio and Da Vinci, empower retail, financial services, media organizations, and travel & hospitality sectors by transforming data into unique customer experiences in real-time. The company collaborates with a vast network of strategic partners, enhancing existing marketing technologies to achieve remarkable revenue and customer engagement. Movable Ink's expertise is endorsed by studies, such as the Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study, highlighting significant financial benefits for users. Through their innovative use of AI, Movable Ink drives next-level personalization and marketing performance.

📋 Description

• Lead and transform the Procurement organization, focusing on process optimization and continuous improvement. • Develop and own proactive technology sourcing strategies. • Leverage Ironclad, Productiv, AI, and emerging technologies to enhance procurement effectiveness. • Partner with Finance on annual and quarterly technology budget planning, forecasting, and spend analysis. • Drive system consolidation, streamline the vendor portfolio, reduce redundancy, and renegotiate enterprise-wide agreements. • Collaborate with Legal, IT, InfoSec, and senior leadership to assess risk, ensure compliance, and optimize contract terms. • Direct complex vendor negotiations to secure competitive terms, flexible license structures, and scalable contract models. • Lead evaluation and adoption of procurement and vendor management tools and platforms. • Serve as a senior escalation point for vendor and stakeholder issues and manage executive-level relationships. • Establish and drive procurement training and change management initiatives. • Maintain day-to-day operations for new vendors, renewals, and change orders according to SLAs and stakeholder expectations.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven leadership experience in technology procurement, strategic sourcing, and vendor management at a senior level. • Experience implementing and managing procurement tools and contract management platforms (e.g., Ironclad/Docusign, SaaS Management, Orchestration tools). • Deep expertise in system consolidation, technology budgeting, forecasting, and KPI management related to technology procurement. • Strong knowledge and practical experience with deploying AI applications and system consolidation. • Excellent negotiation skills with a track record of driving cost savings and value through complex agreements. • Exceptional communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all organizational levels. • Strategic thinking with a drive for continuous improvement and the ability to lead organizational change. • Self-motivated and entrepreneurial mindset with a dedication to high standards of operational excellence and data accuracy.

🏖️ Benefits

• Additional bonus depending on the position ultimately offered • Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

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