Category Strategy & Sourcing
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies across technology services (engineering services, consulting, managed services), CDP, and hardware
- Lead end-to-end sourcing: RFPs, supplier selection, renewals, and negotiations
- Design and negotiate commercial models (T&M, fixed price, outcome-based, managed services)
- Drive cost optimization through supplier consolidation, rate benchmarking, and demand management
- Use market intelligence and spend data to inform sourcing decisions and supplier strategies
- Collaborate with Technology Procurement leadership and Category Managers to align strategies and drive enterprise outcomes
Supplier Management & Governance
- Manage strategic relationships with service providers, infrastructure vendors, and hardware suppliers
- Support stakeholder in providing necessary input for supplier reviews focused on delivery performance, SLAs, quality, and contract compliance
- Ensure strong supplier governance, including performance management, risk oversight, and compliance adherence
- Partner with Legal, Security, and Compliance teams to manage supplier risk and due diligence
- Drive accountability on supplier commitments, service delivery outcomes, and issue resolution
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with Customer Success, Engineering, IT, and business teams
- Act as a trusted advisor on sourcing strategy, supplier models, and commercial structures
- Support planning and forecasting of technology services and infrastructure spend
- Drive alignment across stakeholders on sourcing decisions, delivery risks, and trade-offs
- Work closely with Technology Procurement leadership and Category Managers on priorities and escalations
Team Leadership
- Lead and develop a team supporting technology services, CDP, and hardware procurement
- Drive performance, accountability, and capability development
- Foster a high-performance, collaborative team environment
- Ensure strict adherence to procurement policies, processes, and approval frameworks across all sourcing activities
- Drive compliance with contracting standards, governance requirements, and internal controls
- Improve sourcing efficiency through standardization, automation, and tool adoption
- Support audit readiness through proper documentation and process discipline
- Support transformation initiatives to enhance scalability and user experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field (MBA preferred)
- 12–14 years of procurement experience, with strong focus on technology services and/or infrastructure sourcing
- Experience negotiating services agreements (MSAs, SOWs), managed services, and hardware contracts
- Proven people leadership experience
- Strong understanding of supplier risk, compliance, and governance
- Experience in a global technology organization
- Strong understanding of services delivery models, infrastructure ecosystems, and hardware sourcing
- Exposure to AI/automation-enabled services and implications for sourcing and governance
- Familiarity with procurement tools and analytics platforms
- Strong analytical and stakeholder management skills
Impact
- Deliver cost savings and operational value across technology services, CDP, and hardware spend
- Strengthen supplier performance, service delivery quality, and risk management
- Improve procurement efficiency and stakeholder experience
- Build a high-performing, category-focused team
- Establish Procurement as a key control point for enterprise AI governance across third-party technology ecosystems, ensuring structured onboarding and oversight aligned to risk and compliance standards
At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.
Why You'll Thrive at NetApp
At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.
NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.
Our culture
We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.
If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. now.
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