Director, Procurement – Vendor Management

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $186k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🛒 Procurement

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Summit

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

💼 Consulting

🏨 Hospitality

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Hospitality • Marketing

Summit is a SaaS platform that helps businesses create, customize, shorten and track URLs and QR Codes, build mobile-friendly landing pages, and analyze engagement across campaigns. It offers branded links, UTM tracking, dynamic QR codes, 2D barcodes, digital business cards, integrations (including Shopify and Canva), and a developer-facing API to automate and scale link management for teams and enterprises. Summit targets business customers with free and enterprise plans, focusing on marketing, customer experience, and analytics use cases.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute Summit's procurement and vendor management strategy • Build and maintain strategic relationships with technology vendors, OEMs, distributors, and service providers • Lead negotiations for hardware, software, cloud services, maintenance agreements, and professional services • Partner with Finance, Delivery, Sales, and executive leadership on technology investments and operational initiatives • Optimize spend, consolidate vendors, improve contract terms, and maximize technology investment value • Establish vendor performance expectations and metrics for supplier quality, responsiveness, and business value • Oversee the contract lifecycle, including renewals, pricing reviews, vendor performance, and relationship management • Establish and improve procurement policies, standards, and governance • Analyze purchasing trends, contract commitments, and supplier performance to provide recommendations • Lead, coach, and direct the Procurement team • Evaluate emerging technologies, supplier capabilities, and market trends • Deliver strategic supplier partnerships, competitive commercial agreements, scalable procurement processes, spend and renewal visibility, supplier accountability, and informed purchasing decisions • Decide procurement strategies, vendor selection recommendations, negotiation strategies, procurement governance, supplier performance plans, initiative priorities, team workload, and Procurement team development priorities

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management within a technology, managed services, cloud, or enterprise IT environment • Experience building long-term vendor relationships and negotiating value-creating outcomes • Understanding of enterprise technology purchasing, including hardware, software licensing, cloud services, and professional services • Ability to balance strategic planning with operational realities • Ability to build credibility across technical, operational, financial, and executive stakeholders • Ability to use data to support recommendations, evaluate supplier performance, and identify continuous improvement opportunities • Confidence communicating, navigating competing priorities, and solving complex business challenges • Experience negotiating Microsoft licensing, CSP, Azure, or other enterprise technology agreements • Experience managing strategic technology vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, Equinix, Digital Realty, HPE, or similar partners • Experience with contract lifecycle management, procurement systems, or ERP platforms • Experience negotiating enterprise software, SaaS, cloud, or managed services agreements • Familiarity with managed services, cloud infrastructure, or data center environments • Professional certification such as CPSM, CPSD, PMP, or similar is a bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible Time Off • Medical, Dental & Vision coverage with HSA/HRA options • 401(k) with 4% match • Paid Parental Leave • Life & Disability Insurance • Wellness Support for mental and physical health • Free Colocation & Cloud Access • Work From Anywhere / remote-friendly work • Low-ego, get-it-done culture