Vice President - Software Sourcing and Procurement
About The Position
We're seeking someone to join our team as a Vice President to lead end-to-end software sourcing across our Business Applications software portfolio, anchor Dallas as a scaled GSS hub and deliver disciplined commercial outcomes across a high-value, business-critical portfolio. In the Corporate Services division, we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience, while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business. Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.
Requirements
- Significant experience in software sourcing, procurement, vendor management, category strategy and complex technology negotiations.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a broad supplier landscape and translate business, technology and financial priorities into executable sourcing strategies.
- Strong executive stakeholder management skills, including experience partnering with senior technology, product, operations and finance leaders.
- Commercial judgment and governance discipline to manage high-risk suppliers, large renewals, business-critical platforms and sensitive negotiation escalations.
- People leadership experience, including the ability to manage, coach and drive execution through experienced Director-level sourcing professionals.
- Ability to bring structure to a high-volume portfolio, reduce cycle times, sustain savings delivery and support platform consolidation and resiliency priorities.
- Bachelor's degree
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Dallas GSS site lead, providing local leadership, operating discipline and execution oversight for GSS staff.
- Oversee a complex portfolio of approximately $.4B in Annual Contract Value, with management responsibility for five Director-level full-time employees in multiple time zones.
- Lead full lifecycle category strategy and execution across our Business Applications software sourcing portfolio, including renewals, new demand, demand management, and supplier rationalization.
- Drive material commercial outcomes through large-scale software negotiations, consumption model optimization, vendor consolidation and disciplined supplier segmentation.
- Provide governance for high-risk and business-critical technology suppliers supporting revenue generation, client servicing, trading and core operational processes.
- Partner with senior technology stakeholders, product owners and finance teams on platform consolidation, resiliency, artificial intelligence enablement and Firm-wide technology transformation priorities.
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry
- Opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest
- Environment where you are supported and empowered
- Ample opportunity to move about the business
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
