# Director of Indirect Procurement

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000-240,000 per year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Director of Indirect Procurement is a senior leadership role responsible for defining and executing the enterprise-wide strategy for indirect spend categories, including IT, software, professional services, facilities, travel, marketing, and other non-production goods and services.

This role provides strategic direction, governance, and oversight to ensure cost optimization, risk mitigation, supplier performance excellence, and alignment with corporate objectives. As a key business partner, the Director collaborates closely with executive leadership, Finance, Legal, IT, and functional leaders to influence decision-making, drive value creation, and continuously mature procurement capabilities across the organization.

## Responsibilities

### Strategic Sourcing & Category Leadership

- Own and lead the enterprise indirect procurement strategy, aligning category roadmaps with business priorities and long-term growth plans

- Provide executive oversight for complex, high-value sourcing initiatives across all indirect spend categories

- Establish and govern category strategies, including demand management, supplier consolidation, and innovation partnerships

- Sponsor and oversee RFx processes (RFI, RFP, RFQ) for mission-critical goods and services

- Lead or approve negotiations for major contracts, including pricing models, SLAs, risk allocation, and long-term agreements

- Drive enterprise-level cost savings, cost avoidance, and value realization initiatives

### Supplier & Contract Governance

- Set the strategic framework for supplier relationship management, performance management, and risk mitigation

- Build and maintain executive-level relationships with key strategic suppliers

- Partner with Legal and Compliance to oversee contract standards, negotiation strategy, and approval authority

- Ensure governance over contract lifecycle management, renewals, and commercial obligations

- Resolve escalated supplier issues and lead remediation or exit strategies as needed

### Executive Stakeholder Partnership

- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and executives across the organization

- Translate business strategy into procurement-led solutions that balance cost, risk, speed, and innovation

- Influence stakeholders on sourcing decisions, demand planning, and total cost of ownership considerations

- Champion procurement best practices, governance, and policy adherence at the leadership level

### Procurement Operations & Organizational Leadership

- Provide leadership and direction to indirect procurement teams, including coaching, performance management, and capability development

- Establish scalable procurement operating models, policies, and approval frameworks

- Oversee procurement execution, including requisitions, purchase orders, vendor onboarding, and invoice resolution

- Ensure robust documentation, audit readiness, and process discipline across procurement operations

### Compliance, Risk & Ethics

- Ensure enterprise compliance with procurement policies, approval authorities, and internal controls

- Provide oversight for SOX, FAR/DFARS, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance as applicable

- Lead supplier risk management efforts, including financial, operational, cybersecurity, and regulatory risk

- Promote ethical sourcing, sustainability, and supplier diversity initiatives aligned with corporate values

### Reporting, Analytics & Continuous Improvement

- Define and monitor KPIs for spend visibility, savings, supplier performance, and risk

- Present procurement performance and insights to executive leadership

- Sponsor enhancements to procurement systems and tools (ERP, P2P, contract lifecycle management)

- Lead continuous improvement, automation, and digital transformation initiatives across procurement

- Contribute to enterprise governance, policy development, and long-range procurement planning

## Skills

### Required
- Indirect Procurement
- Strategic Sourcing
- Category Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Contract Governance
- Procurement Operations
- Compliance
- Risk Management
- Ethical Sourcing
- Sustainability
- Supplier Diversity
- ERP
- P2P
- Contract Lifecycle Management
- Digital Transformation
- Continuous Improvement
- Automation

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