Strategic Sourcing Category Manager

Role Description

As a Strategic Sourcing Manager at Dropbox you are responsible for developing and executing Sourcing Strategy across global vendors. We're looking for a self starter who will thrive in an often-times ambiguous environment and isn’t afraid of a challenge. The Strategic Sourcing Manager has:

• Deep market knowledge of Third Party Cloud Service Providers (i.e AWS Azure GCP)

• Strong ability to determine contractual/financial exposure/ negotiate contracts

• Knowledge of Cloud contracting trends licensing models - traditional and emerging contract/vendor performance models.

• Executive Relationship Management skills.

• Strong ability to communicate with users legal sourcing business leaders and engineering to align technical requirements with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise contract/pricing negotiations with platform Cloud Service Providers

• Facilitate New Technology evaluation and implementation via Cloud Service Providers

• Align on Cloud Spend and Forecast Spend across Engineering organizations

• Partner with Engineering teams to leverage Cloud Service Provider Roadmaps

• Manage Executive Partnership & Relationship management between Dropbox and Cloud Service Providers

Requirements

• +7 years experience in Strategic Sourcing with Cloud Services or related fields

• +5 years of major enterprise level contract negotiation experience

• Experience in building and developing vendor partnerships at the Executive level

• Proven success and experience in providing direction to technical/engineering teams

• A diverse technical acumen--actively contribute to technical discussions proactively identify challenges and risks working closely with engineers and product manager on addressing challenges and form mitigation plans.

• You have the ability to communicate complex plans effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal presentation and communication skills.

• Effective problem-solving skills.

Total Rewards