Strategic Sourcing Manager - Cloud Services

Posted 16 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Los Angeles, CA
Remote
157K-212K Annually
5-7 Years Experience
Cloud • Consumer Web • Productivity • Software • App development • Automation • Data Privacy
Our mission is to design a more enlightened way of working. Join us!
The Role
As a Strategic Sourcing Manager at Dropbox, you will develop and execute sourcing strategies across global vendors, lead contract negotiations with cloud service providers, manage cloud spend alignment, and build executive partnerships. Requires 7+ years of experience in strategic sourcing with cloud services and +5 years in enterprise-level contract negotiation.
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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

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2

$156,800$212,200 USD

US Zone 3

$139,400$188,600 USD

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Los Angeles, CA
2,500 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.

Why Work With Us

Our remote work model is a deliberate shift to provide greater flexibility, create a level-playing field, and evolve our culture to focus on people over places. Being a Virtual First company has allowed us to focus on our impact and effectiveness, by making investments in our employees according to what they need to do their best work.

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