Senior Director Procurement

Location Details: United States, Remote

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

GoDaddy is not currently considering candidates for this role in California, Seattle, or NYC.

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At GoDaddy, we are seeking a dynamic, strategic, and highly influential Senior Director of Global Indirect Procurement to lead our enterprise-wide indirect sourcing strategy across ~$900M in addressable spend. This leader will own category strategy, supplier governance, operational excellence, and digital procurement transformation across key spend areas including Software, Hardware, IT Services, BPO, HR, Marketing, Travel, and Professional Services!

As a senior member of the Procurement leadership team, the Senior Director will build the future of our global procurement operating model, drive measurable value creation, and partner closely with executive collaborators across Finance, IT, HR, Operations, Legal, and Security. This individual will play a critical role in advancing our centralized procurement model and ensuring procurement is a strategic enabler of company-wide performance, cost optimization, and risk mitigation.

What you'll get to do...

Strategic Leadership & Category Ownership

• Develop and implement multi-year category strategies that align with enterprise objectives, operational needs, and financial targets
• Drive the annual procurement planning cycle, integrating demand forecasting, TCO analysis, market benchmarking, and scenario planning
• Act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, influencing spend behaviors, supplier strategies, and enterprise decision-making
• Build strong category pipelines and proactively find opportunities for innovation, consolidation, and value creation

Cross-Functional Partnership & Executive Engagement

• Partner with IT, Finance, FP&A, HR, GTM, Operations, Legal, and Security to align procurement strategy with functional priorities and business objectives
• Lead business collaborator engagement to ensure sourcing strategies meet service, quality, risk, and budget expectations
• Guide leaders through sourcing decisions, vendor rationalization, and large-scale negotiations
• Serve as a visible and trusted partner to executive leadership on procurement, risk, and supplier strategy topics

Cost Optimization & Supplier Risk Management

• Deliver annual savings targets through cost reduction, cost avoidance, demand management, and improved buying behaviors
• Implement supplier segmentation and governance frameworks that improve accountability, performance, resilience, and innovation
• Enable supplier continuity strategies, including dependency reviews, redundancy planning, and contract-level risk controls
• Lead all aspects of quarterly business reviews and supplier scorecards

Operational Excellence, Process Governance & Digital Procurement

• Lead continuous improvement of procurement processes, policies, controls, and critical metrics across the global organization
• Advance procurement digital transformation by driving adoption of automation, analytics, AI-enabled sourcing tools, workflow software, and dashboards
• Partner with Finance and internal systems teams to improve processes related to spend visibility, contract lifecycle management, supplier onboarding, and compliance
• Ensure consistent global implementation of procurement standards, templates, and governance

Leadership, Team Development & Organizational Transformation

• Lead, motivate, and develop a distributed team of category managers, sourcing specialists, and procurement professionals
• Creating a high-performance culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Build organizational capability through training, coaching, talent development, and strategic hiring
• Champion procurement’s role in the company’s broader transformation, promoting agreement and adoption across global teams

Your experience should include...

• Proven success managing large, complex spend portfolios in a technology, SaaS, or global matrixed organization
• Expertise in sourcing strategy, contracting, supplier management, negotiation, and cost-optimization frameworks
• Experience driving procurement transformation, digital initiatives, and process modernization
• Strong financial competence and ability to produce decision-ready insights for executive audiences and proficiency with modern procurement systems and workflows (Workday preferred; Coupa, Ariba, Icertis, etc. a plus)

You might also have...

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Supply Chain, Finance, Business, Engineering, or related field; MBA or Master’s degree preferred

We've got your back... We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

About us... GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us.

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