Role Description
As a Strategic Sourcing Manager at Dropbox you are responsible for developing and executing Sourcing Strategy across global vendors. We're looking for a self starter who will thrive in an often-times ambiguous environment and isn’t afraid of a challenge. The Strategic Sourcing Manager;
- Deep market knowledge of Cloud Service Providers (i.e AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Strong ability to determine contractual/financial exposure/ negotiate contracts
- Knowledge of Cloud contracting trends, licensing models - traditional and emerging contract/vendor performance models.
- Executive Relationship Management skills.
- Strong ability to communicate with users, legal, sourcing, business leaders and engineering to align technical requirements with business goals.
Responsibilities
- Lead Enterprise contract/pricing negotiations with platform Cloud Service Providers
- Facilitate New Technology evaluation and implementation via Cloud Service Providers
- Align on Cloud Spend and Forecast Spend across Engineering organizations
- Partner with Engineering teams to leverage Cloud Service Provider Roadmaps
- Manage Executive Partnership & Relationship management between Dropbox and Cloud Service Providers
Requirements
- Experience in building and developing vendor partnerships at the Executive level
- Proven success and experience in providing direction to technical/engineering teams
- A diverse technical acumen--actively contribute to technical discussions, proactively identify challenges and risks, working closely with engineers and product manager on addressing challenges, and form mitigation plans.
- You have the ability to communicate complex plans effectively.
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills.
- Effective problem-solving skills.
Total Rewards
Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Current Salary/OTE Ranges (Subject to change):
C$115,000 - C$135,000 - C$155,000
