Global Procurement Manager

Global Procurement Manager

As Global Procurement Manager, you will lead Lionbridges global procurement function — driving strategic sourcing, vendor management, contract management and spend analytics to leverage key industry and internal partnerships, drive technical and commercial innovation, and deliver measurable cost savings.

This role has end-to-end ownership of technology expenditure across all areas of indirect spend, including IT, Marketing, HR, Facilities and Business Support Services, and drives the identification and delivery of group wide synergies and savings across these areas. The role is based in India, works closely with Lionbridge’s existing Purchasing & Licensing operations team to ensure sourcing decisions translate into day-to-day execution, and supports a global, remote leadership team across regions and time zones.

What will you do?

• Own strategic sourcing across all indirect spend categories — identify suppliers, run competitive RFPs and e-auctions, and negotiate contracts and renewals with key vendors to deliver measurable cost savings (typically 5–20% per category).
• Build and lead vendor management practices — supplier performance scorecards, SLAs, KPIs and quarterly business reviews (QBRs) — to raise service levels and strengthen negotiating leverage.
• Centralize contract management — maintain a master contract repository and renewal calendar, run pricing reviews, and prevent unfavourable automatic renewals.
• Deliver spend analytics across the business — analyse company-wide spend patterns to identify duplicate vendors, tail spend and consolidation opportunities.
• Work directly with management teams to identify further opportunities to streamline procurement practices and negotiate with vendors to reduce overall spend, especially in remote and smaller global offices.
• Work with management teams and commodity/supplier experts to develop, manage and refresh sourcing strategies and roadmaps for each actively managed spend category.
• Provide commodity and supplier expertise across all managed categories.
• Lead review of, and responses to, supplier proposals and RFPs, partnering with the Purchasing & Licensing operations team so sourcing decisions translate into day-to-day execution.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Accountable for delivery of bought-in goods and services at the lowest ultimate cost, underpinned by rigorous spend analytics.
• Responsible for managing the Procurement process to meet audit and compliance requirements.
• Responsible for managing the relationship with internal customers to meet / exceed expectations.
• Responsible for the identification and delivery of synergies, savings benefits and consolidation opportunities across all areas of Lionbridge.
• Responsible for leading and coordinating sourcing activities across the four pillars of strategic sourcing, vendor management, contract management and spend analytics.
• Responsible for supplier relationship management processes, including SLAs, KPIs and quarterly business reviews.
• Accountable for clear communication of agreed strategy, procurement updates, contract information.
• Responsible for planning, coordination and prioritisation of support for all activities and projects.
• Responsible for centralising contracts and ensuring the right contractual conditions — including renewal tracking and pricing reviews — are in place to manage Lionbridge’s risk.

To be successful you must have:

• A minimum of 10 Years of Procurement experience in a large global organization with direct experience in negotiating enterprise contracts.
• Demonstrable experience of managing high value high complexity projects and/or Sourcing processes/negotiations:
• Direct hands-on experience designing internal procurement/sourcing processes.
• The comfortability of working in a virtual environment supporting a global management team.
• A self-starter mentality and the drive to operate in a dynamic and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Knowledge of supplier technology (Infrastructure and Application landscape) and the approach to influencing supplier roadmaps.
• Current/Up-to-date knowledge of industry trends for the assigned commodities, and experience performing competitive analysis on relevant products.
• Proven track record of Leadership, prioritisation and managing under pressure.
• Ability to manage and analyse complex data under pressure
• Understanding of Cultural Differences and ability to cultivate win/win solutions.
• Awareness of Change Management Techniques and conversion into effective delivery
• Strong Communication and the ability to communicate to all levels of the organisation
• Excellent Negotiation and Strategic Sourcing ability.
• Outsourcing experience
• The ability to read and understand legal contracts
• Degree level qualifications and/or CIPS qualifications

In return you can expect:

• Experience working for a trusted partner to thousands of companies around the world and a World Leader in Localization/Globalization.
• To work with a diverse team of specialists from across the world in areas such as Language/Linguistics, Technology Development, AI/Machine Learning, Managed Services and Business Operations.