Global Head of Technology Sourcing

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, Marketing and Sales, Customer Ops and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

The role will be responsible for proactively managing, developing, and executing category and agency strategies for our $1B+ Technology supplier portfolio; inclusive of managing the end-to-end supplier management lifecycle. You should have strong leadership, communication and analytical skills and a proven ability to manage a high functioning and dynamic team. You will lead with a partnership mentality and focus on business enablement. You will model teamwork and collaboration skills and have a noticeable positive impact on the velocity and success of your teammates. The ability to build relationships with business partners across the organization to ensure understanding of goals and priorities is a core requirement in this role. You must demonstrate collaboration internally and externally, have a passionate focus on success, and commitment to continuous improvement. The role requires the ability to manage a wide variety of categories that span across the entire Technology sourcing portfolio. You will be directly responsible for the growth and development of a team.

You Will:

• Support Block leadership strategic planning efforts through: Heavy focus on sourcing (via best class sourcing methodologies) Opportunity assessment, Contract negotiation, Risk mitigation, Ongoing management and performance of supplier relationships
• Be a trusted partner to the various teams in developing new strategies in an effort to increase delivery through people, processes, tools, and suppliers
• Ensure smooth performance of daily operations, allowing them to concentrate on more progressive activities
• Be the source of bringing in the best outside best practices by leveraging various sources of information and your external network
• Oversee complex, Block-wide supplier relations, developing solutions to new problems and using your foresight to anticipate future trends and issues
• Establish partnerships with important business partners aimed at identifying, understanding and fulfilling their requirements
• Develop selection/negotiation criteria, establish strategic sourcing and business objectives, coordinate resources, and provide category leadership following long-term buying goals
• Collaborate with business partners to develop strategy, lead contract negotiation with suppliers; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify important benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements
• Identify and realize cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities and build a culture of long-term savings on procurement costs without compromising supply assurance or quality
• Assist in establishing supplier life-cycle strategy to oversee planning, sourcing and selection of new suppliers, manage data for supplier performance and manage supplier off-boarding and transition
• Explore new technologies to optimize performance and transparency to business partners
• Support internal and external audit, SOX compliance and due diligence requests
• Support other ad hoc projects

You Have:

• Minimum of 12+ years of strategic sourcing experience in a high-growth technology environment
• At least 7 years leading Technology categories
• 5+ years experience leading and developing a high performing team of sourcing professionals
• Ability to project manage, demonstrate project status, key actions, risks and opportunities
• Ability to navigate in unstructured environments while garnering trust with internal customers.
• Experience proactively resolving performance issues with assigned suppliers to ensure resolution
• Experience leveraging technology and financial systems to extract and analyze data