Senior Manager, IT Procurement & Vendor Strategy

Quanta Services Management Partnership • Houston, TX

21h • Onsite

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. You have defined operating models, hired teams, and stood up processes from scratch.
• 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. You default to automating manual work, not adding headcount. You bring a practical understanding of where AI, workflow automation, and analytics create value in procurement operations.
• 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 for the IT procurement function.
• 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 corporate 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.

Benefits

• Consideration for employment will be given to all qualified applicants.
• We prohibit all types of discrimination and are committed to providing access and equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees