Director, Strategic Sourcing

Live Ramp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, Live Ramp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. Live Ramp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners.

Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to Live Ramp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first‑party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.

We are looking for a Director, Strategic Sourcing to drive global category and supplier strategy and manage spend of $100M+ across Live Ramp’s Technology portfolio. This includes overseeing the entire end‑to‑end supplier management lifecycle. This role requires the ability to build strong relationships with business partners across the organization (Engineering, Security, Product, Business Technology, and etc.), to ensure alignment with goals and priorities.

You must lead with a partnership mentality, focusing on business enablement, and modeling collaboration both internally and externally. The role possesses strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills, along with a proven track record of leading a high‑performing and dynamic team. You will be directly responsible for the growth and development of your team, demonstrating a focus on success and a commitment to continuous improvement.

• Define and execute the global strategy and roadmap for technology categories in alignment with Live Ramp’s evolving business strategy, supplier development and financial needs.

• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders and act as a trusted business advisor to the various teams in developing new strategies in an effort to increase delivery through human capital, processes, tools, and suppliers.

• Having the ability to successfully negotiate contracts/business requirements that meet the needs of organization (risk, quality, cost, etc.) across Technology categories.

• Lead RFx process (e.g. requirements development, and selection and award process) and manage communications with suppliers and internal stakeholders throughout.

• Initiate, design, plan, execute, monitor, and close process improvement projects, including supplier management and optimization.

• Develop and implement strategies to achieve cost savings and reductions in supplier deals, prioritizing long‑term value creation. Ensure these savings are realized without impacting supply reliability or product/service quality.

• Explore new technologies to optimize performance and transparency to business partners.

• Establish procurement governance, audit controls, policy enforcement, and risk/compliance oversight.

• Manage other ad‑hoc projects.

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of strategic sourcing or procurement experience, including substantial time in a high‑growth technology or SaaS environment.

• At least 7 years leading Technology categories, such as cloud infrastructure, enterprise SaaS, developer tools, security, or other core technology domains.

• 5+ years of people leadership experience directly managing and developing strategic sourcing/procurement professionals.

• Proven track record of:

• Designing and executing category strategies that deliver measurable cost/value outcomes

• Running complex RFPs and leading high‑stakes commercial and contractual negotiations

• Managing strategic suppliers and driving performance improvement and innovation

• Strong project and program management skills, with the ability to clearly communicate project status, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans to senior stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to navigate unstructured and fast‑changing environments, influence without…