IT Procurement Manager
About this role
The IT Procurement team at ALO builds and manages the sourcing, contracting, and supplier strategies for all technology-related spend categories, supporting infrastructure, cloud services, and emerging artificial intelligence solutions. This role serves as a strategic partner to information technology, enterprise architecture, finance, and legal departments, helping optimize technology investments while mitigating operational risks.
The incoming manager will lead multiple sourcing initiatives, negotiate complex commercial agreements, and handle the procurement lifecycle for software, SaaS, hardware, and AI platforms. Day-to-day work involves balancing technical requirements with commercial terms, conducting requests for proposals, and driving cost optimization across cross-functional teams.
This position suits a builder with a proactive, action-oriented mindset who thrives in a fast-paced environment and communicates transparently. Candidates who do well here are equally comfortable discussing enterprise application architecture with technical stakeholders and negotiating data privacy terms with strategic suppliers.
What you will do
- Lead multiple technology sourcing initiatives and complex contract negotiations simultaneously across software, cloud, and AI categories.
- Manage the complete contract lifecycle from initial sourcing and RFP execution through implementation and strategic renewal.
- Partner with IT, enterprise architecture, security, and legal teams to align sourcing activities with organizational objectives.
- Analyze spending patterns, supplier performance, and licensing utilization to identify value opportunities and develop business cases.
- Negotiate commercial terms including pricing, licensing structures, service-level agreements, and termination provisions.
- Evaluate and negotiate AI-specific contractual provisions related to data ownership, model training rights, and security governance.
- Establish supplier relationship management programs, conduct quarterly business reviews, and create performance scorecards.
What you need
- Hold a bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, finance, information systems, computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Bring five or more years of experience in technology procurement, strategic sourcing, vendor management, or technology contract management.
- Demonstrate hands-on experience sourcing and negotiating software, SaaS, cloud, cybersecurity, or technology services agreements.
- Possess a strong understanding of software licensing models, subscription agreements, and cloud consumption structures.
- Show familiarity with enterprise technology architecture, application ecosystems, and system integrations.
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What categories of technology spend will this role manage?
This role manages technology-related spend categories including software, SaaS, cloud services, infrastructure, cybersecurity, telecommunications, hardware, professional services, managed services, and emerging AI solutions.
Who does this position report to?
This role reports directly to the Director, IT Procurement.
What specific AI-related contract terms will the manager negotiate?
The manager will evaluate and negotiate AI-specific provisions related to data ownership and usage rights, model training and retention rights, intellectual property, data residency, security controls, and responsible AI standards.
What cross-functional teams will the candidate partner with?
The successful candidate will partner with Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Finance, Legal, Engineering, Data, and business stakeholders.