Preferred Skills / Certifications

• Experience in mission-critical environments such as hyperscale data centers, utilities, industrial operations, healthcare, telecom, semiconductor, manufacturing, or large-scale facilities.

• Experience managing vendors supporting facilities operations, maintenance services, electrical systems, mechanical systems, commissioning, construction support, critical infrastructure, or technical service delivery.

• Familiarity with structured supplier governance models, supplier segmentation, performance scorecards, benchmarking, cost reduction, service-level management, and corrective action planning.

• Experience supporting or leading vendor audits, compliance reviews, safety documentation reviews, insurance tracking, contract renewals, service transitions, or supplier remediation plans.

• Experience building or scaling vendor management processes, dashboards, operating rhythms, and governance standards across multiple sites or regions.

• Knowledge of procurement systems, contract lifecycle management tools, reporting platforms, CMMS systems, ticketing tools, workflow platforms, or enterprise planning systems is a plus.

• Supply chain, procurement, facilities management, contract management, vendor management, project management, or safety-related certifications are a plus.

Physical Demands / Work Environment

This role supports mission-critical data center environments where execution quality, responsiveness, safety, and operational discipline are essential. Regular attendance and occasional travel are required to support team leadership, vendor governance, site engagement, supplier reviews, escalation management, and performance oversight.

To perform these duties, you must be able to frequently walk, stand, and move through operational and office environments, with occasional visits to industrial, construction, or active data center site areas. These tasks must be performed safely, with or without reasonable accommodation, to support the continuous health of site operations and vendor-delivered services.

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

• Global impact at scale: Lead vendor management practices that directly influence the reliability, safety, scalability, and service continuity of OCI's mission-critical data center infrastructure across regions and continents.

• Strategic leadership opportunity: Build and mature vendor governance, supplier performance, and operational accountability models that support a rapidly growing cloud infrastructure business.

• Technically rigorous environment: Partner with experienced operations leaders, engineers, automation specialists, procurement professionals, compliance teams, and safety experts in a hyperscale environment where disciplined execution matters.

• Culture built on operational excellence: Join an organization that values safety, process rigor, clear accountability, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement as foundational to protecting uptime and customer trust.

• Long-term career development: Benefit from internal mobility, leadership development, role-based technical training, and growth opportunities for professionals building long-term careers in cloud infrastructure, facilities operations, and vendor strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Vendor Specialists, Vendor Managers, or related vendor-facing professionals supporting data center facilities operations.

• Own vendor management execution across assigned sites, regions, services, or programs, ensuring vendor performance aligns with uptime, safety, quality, compliance, financial, and operational expectations.

• Establish and maintain vendor governance practices, including performance reviews, escalation paths, operating rhythms, reporting standards, issue management processes, and accountability mechanisms.

• Oversee end-to-end vendor lifecycle activities, including selection support, onboarding, contract implementation, performance tracking, renewal support, issue resolution, compliance follow-up, and service transitions.

• Partner with Procurement, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Site Operations, Facilities, Engineering, and Safety teams to ensure vendor contracts and service scopes are operationally executable and commercially sound.

• Drive vendor performance against SLAs, KPIs, safety standards, compliance requirements, quality expectations, and delivery commitments; ensure corrective actions are tracked through closure.

• Lead escalation management for recurring, systemic, or high-risk vendor issues that may affect service continuity, operational reliability, safety, cost, or compliance.

• Provide clear, data-back