Principal Vendor Management

🕒 April 22

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Autodesk

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1982

📱 Media

Architecture • Engineering • Media

Autodesk is a global leader in software for designers, engineers, builders, and creators. The company provides a comprehensive suite of design and engineering applications including popular products like AutoCAD, Revit, and 3ds Max. Through its Design and Make Platform, Autodesk empowers professionals across various industries to design, visualize, and manage projects efficiently, facilitating innovation and sustainability in architecture, engineering, construction, and manufacturing.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute vendor management strategies aligned with Autodesk’s enterprise priorities, with a focus on resilience, service quality, compliance, and cost optimization • Manage a strategic portfolio of suppliers across network, data center, storage, telecom, and infrastructure-related services • Lead supplier governance through business reviews, performance evaluations, contract renewals, and executive-level engagement • Partner cross-functionally with technology, sourcing, legal, finance, security, and business stakeholders on supplier selection, RFx processes, requirements gathering, and commercial evaluations • Monitor supplier performance against SLAs, KPIs, scorecards, and contractual commitments, and drive issue resolution and continuous improvement • Identify and mitigate supplier-related risks, including operational, commercial, supply chain, service continuity, and compliance risks • Deliver commercial value through pricing reviews, benchmarking, contract optimization, and negotiation of favorable business terms • Build strong internal and external relationships, acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders and a strategic point of contact for key suppliers • Contribute to the continued maturity of Autodesk’s Vendor Management function by improving governance, processes, reporting, and operating models • Work closely with the Senior Manager, Technology Vendor Management to strengthen infrastructure supplier governance and improve how suppliers are selected, measured, and managed across the enterprise • Serve as the primary point of accountability for supplier performance, service delivery, issue management, and stakeholder communication within assigned categories

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in vendor or supplier management within technology or infrastructure environments • Demonstrated experience managing complex supplier portfolios across network, telecom, data center, storage, infrastructure hardware, or related services • Proven success managing strategic and enterprise-scale suppliers in global environments • Strong commercial acumen, including experience with contract structures, service agreements, pricing models, renewals, and vendor negotiations • Experience building and managing supplier governance frameworks, including SLAs, KPIs, scorecards, business reviews, and escalation models • Strong influencing, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to engage credibly with senior stakeholders and supplier executives • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and drive outcomes without direct authority • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• annual cash bonuses • commissions for sales roles • stock grants • comprehensive benefits package