Senior Manager, Strategic Procurement

Oakline Properties • Chicago, IL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Oakline Properties acquires and grows leading property management businesses across the U.S. and Canada, partnering with founders to preserve what makes their teams special while building something bigger together. Focused on people, operational excellence, and long-term stewardship, Oakline provides a lasting home where great businesses and careers continue to thrive. Oakline's values are: Unwavering Stewardship, Excellence in Action, Built for Belonging, Empowered and Accountable, and Play to Win. Oakline is backed by Alpine Investors, an investment firm committed to building enduring businesses by investing in and developing exceptional people.

Oakline is hiring a Senior Manager, Strategic Procurement to lead procurement as a platform-wide value-creation function. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role reporting to the VP of Integration, with direct impact on operating performance across every Oakline partner organization. The person in this seat owns the design and execution of Oakline's sourcing strategy: the vendor programs, category frameworks, governance, and procurement infrastructure that convert scale into measurable, durable savings.

Procurement at Oakline is a core value driver, not a back-office function. Vendor costs spanning maintenance and facilities, make-ready and unit turns, MRO supply, landscaping, waste, utilities, insurance and employee benefits, and enterprise technology flow directly to asset-level NOI and EBITDA across the portfolio.

The role operates at two levels. At the platform level, it sets the standards, tools, and governance that define how Oakline sources and manages vendors, including the vendor taxonomy, RFx process, bid analysis, supplier scorecards, and savings-tracking methodology. At the partner level, it engages directly with property-management operators across the portfolio to drive adoption, close compliance gaps, and turn preferred-vendor agreements into realized savings. Because Oakline operates a decentralized set of partner companies, this role succeeds through influence and credibility rather than positional authority.

Reporting into Integration, the leader treats procurement as a value creation lever: each newly acquired partner represents a fresh surface of spend, contracts, and vendor relationships to be assessed, onboarded, and brought under enterprise standards on a predictable timeline. Day to day, the leader owns category management end-to-end, running sourcing initiatives across priority categories from supplier selection through contract negotiation and ongoing performance management, and building category-level spend visibility and cost-reduction roadmaps. They stand up the preferred-vendor program category by category, including the governance model that holds pricing compliance and contract adherence across the portfolio, and establish a benefits-tracking methodology spanning hard savings, cost avoidance, and rebates, reporting outcomes in the language operators understand: cost-per-unit and annual spend reduction.

Requirements

• 8+ years in strategic sourcing, procurement, or category management, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of sourcing cycles and measurable savings delivered.
• Experience standing up or substantially building a procurement function in a high-growth, multi-entity, or platform environment.
• Track record managing categories at scale (preferably $100M+ in managed or influenced spend) across maintenance and facilities, MRO, technology, or professional services.
• Proven ability to drive adoption and compliance across decentralized operating teams through influence rather than authority.
• Strong analytical capability, comfortable building spend baselines, TCO models, and savings reporting from raw, imperfect data.
• Experience leading or building a small team (3+ reports), or clear readiness to do so as the function scales.
• Familiarity with procurement technology (e-sourcing platforms, contract lifecycle management, ERP integration).
• Comfortable operating with limited infrastructure and motivated to build; energized by significant runway to shape and grow the function.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Nice To Haves

• Multifamily, real estate, or property management experience preferred.
• Exposure to indirect categories such as insurance, employee benefits, or facilities sourcing a plus.
• Advanced degree or procurement certification (e.g., CPSM, CIPS) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Owns the design and execution of Oakline's sourcing strategy, including vendor programs, category frameworks, governance, and procurement infrastructure.
• Sets the standards, tools, and governance for how Oakline sources and manages vendors at the platform level.
• Engages directly with property-management operators to drive adoption, close compliance gaps, and realize savings from preferred-vendor agreements.
• Owns category management end-to-end, running sourcing initiatives from supplier selection through contract negotiation and performance management.
• Builds category-level spend visibility and cost-reduction roadmaps.
• Stands up the preferred-vendor program category by category, including the governance model for pricing compliance and contract adherence.
• Establishes a benefits-tracking methodology for hard savings, cost avoidance, and rebates.
• Applies the sourcing playbook to incoming acquisitions to ensure newly integrated spend comes under enterprise standards on a repeatable timeline.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior