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Available Locations: Remote US About the department

The Sr. Director of Global Procurement – Corporate Services will be responsible for Cloudflare’s global Corporate Services spend of approximately $200 million annually.  Spend categories include HR, Finance / Treasury, Marketing, Professional Services, Legal, and Fleet Services.  Lead a team of 3 Category Leaders responsible for strategic sourcing activities and supplier management functions.  Develop sourcing strategy aligned with functional / business objectives, build organizational strength, create robust sourcing strategies, negotiate agreements, manage strategic supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement, yielding year-over-year savings.  Act as a key business partner to the functional leadership teams.

What you'll do

• Act as the key global Corporate Services sourcing interface with Functional leaders and all Cloudflare divisions, ensuring alignment of strategies and commitments.
• Analyze cross-divisional spending and develop global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units.
• Demonstrate a measurable reduction in year-over-year total cost of ownership for the goods and/or services being sourced without compromising quality and/or service levels.
• Provide thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing strategies.
• Create subcategory strategies using cross-functional teams and sourcing process diligence.
• Manage contracting process and coordinate with Legal to ensure commercial relationships are appropriately documented. 
• Champion the use of e-Sourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide
• Manage the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process related to Corporate Services.
• Drive functional excellence across the Corporate Services portfolio, including skills development and identifying training needs.
• Manage relationships with functional senior management and the suppliers.
• Create and maintain communication mechanisms to ensure coordination and reporting of sourcing impact.
• Lead the Global Sourcing Corporate Services Team
• Develop staff to create expertise in both the areas of spend being managed and in strategic sourcing processes.
• Mentor and develop staff through counseling and training program development that addresses individual improvement areas.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree; graduate in business administration, engineering, or supply chain. 
• Minimum 15 years of experience in Indirect Procurement / Operational leadership with global responsibility, preferably with experience in Corporate Services categories.
• Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant savings year over year.
• Strong negotiation and presentation skills, knowledge of the strategic sourcing process, and project management skills.
• Excellent leadership and teamwork skills.
• Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information.
• Must be able to work across all functions and levels of an organization.
• Travel as required, estimated 20%. 

Hiring Criteria: 

• Minimum 5-7+ years of experience in Corporate Services spend areas such as HR, Finance / Treasury, Marketing, Professional Services, Legal, Travel, and Fleet Services.
• Broad business acumen - Total Cost of Ownership decisions in progressive companies employing best-in-class practices.
• Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities.
• Proven ability to develop and manage high-performance teams. 
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex matrix organization.

Competencies:

• Exceptional communication skills, both orally and written.
• Superior negotiating skills, especially at an executive management level.
• Strong knowledge of strategic sourcing processes and e-sourcing tools.
• Demonstrable process implementation ability.
• Ability to lead a cross-functional team, including senior management.
• Problem-solving and decision-making proven record.
• Leadership, team coaching, and people development skills.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado-based hires and Washington hires: Estimated annual salary of $248,000 - $303,000
• For New York City-based and California (excluding Bay Area): Estimated annual salary of $277,000 - $339,000
• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $292,000 - $356,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

 

 

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

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