Senior Manager, Live Events Procurement

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $115k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Dpay

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

💳 Fintech

📦 Logistics

Fintech • Logistics

Dpay is Dpay Secured Online Services Ltd, a Nigeria-based provider of enterprise-grade digital solutions that combine secure payment processing, IT infrastructure and software development, and end-to-end e-commerce and logistics services. The company offers digitization and technology services tailored to businesses, operates the ClickNship e-commerce/logistics platform, and highlights enterprise clients and partnerships (e. g. , RedStar, FedEx, Jumia). Public metrics include 2. 4M+ transactions processed, 98. 7% uptime, 47 enterprise clients, and 12+ years of experience.

📋 Description

• Build the Function • Design and stand up how procurement runs across XGL events — the category strategies, sourcing calendars, approval workflows, and vendor performance management that don't exist yet. • Design and implement the procurement operating model for XGL: category strategies, sourcing calendars, approval workflows, and vendor performance management • Own and evolve the multi-event procurement phasing calendar, sequencing sourcing milestones against event lead times and identifying resource collision risks across overlapping event cycles • Partner with Business Development/Event Ops to determine procurement's scope under each event's host-site model (promoter, co-promoter, co-producer, owned & operated) and right-size sourcing responsibility accordingly • Partner with Finance to enforce the vendor onboarding SOP, signature authorization matrix, and spend-approval controls (Ramp-based workflow) • Drive Cost Performance • Own the sourcing and negotiation work that keeps event costs in check as the league scales. • Lead competitive sourcing and renegotiation for recurring event vendors, with a mandate to reverse multi-year cost escalation trends • Develop per-event and per-category unit economics with FP&A, and own procurement's contribution to event cost reduction targets • Build a preferred-vendor program that captures multi-event volume leverage across the league calendar • Execute Flawlessly at Events • Be the person on the ground making sure vendor relationships hold up under real event pressure. • Run sourcing, RFP, and negotiation processes for major event categories (venue build, broadcast/production support, staffing, hospitality, transportation, equipment rental) • Manage vendor contracting in partnership with Legal, including insurance, indemnification, and payment-term standards • Ensure a clean handoff of contract terms, deliverables, and payment schedules to the Budget Owner/ELT, who owns vendor relationship management for the life of the contract • Protect the Company • Keep procurement audit-ready and compliant as we operate across borders. • Maintain audit-ready documentation standards across all vendor engagements: contracts, POs, change orders, and payment support • Ensure procurement compliance across US, Canadian, and international (Finland/Japan) vendor jurisdictions • Flag and escalate off-process spend commitments; be a trusted, constructive control point for the business.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of progressive experience in procurement, sourcing, or vendor management, with meaningful time in live events, sports, entertainment production, or large-scale experiential • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related field (or equivalent experience) • Strong negotiation track record with six- and seven-figure vendor agreements • Fluency in live event production categories: staging, broadcast infrastructure, venue services, temporary staffing, hospitality • Experience with modern spend-management tools (Ramp, Coupa, or similar) and ERP environments • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, lean environment — hands-on, not just strategic • Bonus: international procurement experience, multi-event or touring production background, sports league or federation experience.