Senior Manager, IT Procurement & Vendor Strategy

Quanta Services•Houston, TX

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

Quanta Services (NYSE: PWR) is a Fortune 200 company and the largest specialty contractor in North America, with $28B+ in annual revenue, 70,000+ employees, and 250+ operating companies. Quanta’s Corporate IT organization supports the enterprise with shared technology services, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business applications. Quanta has not historically had a strategic, centralized approach to IT procurement. This is changing. Quanta is building its first strategic IT Procurement & Vendor Strategy function from scratch. The Senior Manager will be the foundational leader — the person who inherits the current state, stabilizes operations, builds the function, and transforms it into a strategic capability that drives measurable cost reduction across significant enterprise-scale IT spend. You are walking into a function that needs immediate operational stabilization and long-term strategic vision simultaneously. This is a build, not a maintain.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
9+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management, with at least 5 years specifically in IT/technology categories at enterprise scale.
Demonstrated track record of negotiating multi-million-dollar enterprise technology contracts (i.e., Microsoft EA, SaaS platform agreements, telecom master contracts, cloud commitments).
Prior experience building or restructuring a procurement function — not just managing an existing one.
Experience working in a decentralized or federated organizational model where you must influence without direct authority over business units.
Proficiency with procurement platforms (Coupa, SAP Ariba, or equivalent) and the ability to drive platform implementation and configuration for IT-specific use cases.
Strong commercial acumen: you read contracts, identify unfavorable terms, construct counter-proposals, and negotiate with a bias toward total cost of ownership.
Fluency with AI and automation tools.
Exceptional communication skills. You will work directly with the CIO, IT leadership, Legal, Finance, supply chain, and operating company stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Supply chain management, business, information systems, or related field preferred.
MBA or relevant certification (CPSM, CSCP) valued but not required.
Experience in construction, engineering, energy, or infrastructure services industries.
Familiarity with Gartner, IDC, or Forrester benchmarking data for IT vendor pricing and contract terms.
Experience with SOC 2 vendor compliance requirements and public company governance (SOX, internal controls).
Prior collaboration with a shared services or corporate supply chain procurement organization.

Responsibilities

Conduct a comprehensive assessment of every active technology agreement, vendor relationship, and renewal obligation.
Inventory the contract portfolio, identify what is expiring, what has auto-renewed on unfavorable terms, and where Quanta has limited commercial leverage.
Fix the renewal process so the organization is never again making critical decisions with insufficient lead time.
Define the strategic mandate for IT procurement at Quanta: what categories this function owns, what the target operating model looks like, what the cost takeout opportunity is, and how this function evolves from a corporate capability to an enterprise-wide one.
Stand up the function against the corporate IT portfolio, prove the operating model works, demonstrate measurable value, and build credibility with leadership.
Align leadership across key functions to the strategy and its sequencing.
Define the operating model, the processes, the tools, and the team.
Determine the right size and structure for the organization based on the volume of work and the complexity of the vendor portfolio.
Establish category strategies, competitive sourcing processes, and vendor management disciplines.
Stand up quarterly business reviews with strategic vendors, benchmarking pricing against market data, and holding vendors accountable for service delivery and contract performance.
Build the business case for enterprise-wide expansion and execute it.
Leverage Quanta’s full scale to drive better outcomes — aggregating demand across operating companies for better pricing, replacing fragmented local purchasing with enterprise-level agreements, and driving cost out of the technology portfolio at scale.
Use spend analytics and demand intelligence to identify where the enterprise is over-licensed, where spend is duplicated, and where consolidation creates real savings.
Extend vendor management disciplines enterprise-wide — ensuring quarterly business reviews, pricing benchmarks, and service accountability reflect the full weight of Quanta’s purchasing power.
Act as the single commercial point of contact between Quanta’s IT organization and its technology vendors.
Partner with supply chain leadership to determine what shared infrastructure IT procurement can plug into, what needs to be configured for technology-specific requirements, and where the boundaries are.
Implement procurement platforms and automation to replace manual, spreadsheet-driven processes, eliminate manual effort, and free capacity for strategic work.
Work with senior counsel on key contract reviews, and with Finance on the Bill of IT — the chargeback model that allocates IT costs to operating companies.