Senior Manager, Procurement and Vendor Management

Intelligent. Dynamic. Resilient. 

Everfox, formerly Forcepoint Federal, has been defending the world’s most critical data and networks against the most complex cyber threats imaginable for more than 25 years. As trailblazers in defense-grade, high assurance cyber security, we have been leading the way in developing and delivering innovative cyber security technology. We protect data wherever it resides. Our unwavering dedication and commitment to our customers and the critical missions they serve are what set us apart. We are dynamic, vigilant, and proactive in everything we do. Our suite of cross domain, threat protection and insider risk solutions empower governments and enterprise organizations to use data safely - where and however their people need it. At Everfox, we innovate, we invest, we achieve. We protect what matters most to our customers. And we offer protection like no other. We do all of this so our customers can focus on what matters most… their mission.

Job Title: Sr. Manager of Procurement and Vendor Management

Location: Hybrid in Richardson, TX, Salt Lake City, UT or Herndon, VA preferred

Role: Reporting directly to the Vice President of Operations, responsible for leading centralized sourcing and procurement efforts across the organization. This role is responsible for operationalizing a comprehensive governance and oversight model for all third-party relationships. Partners with functional leaders to optimize value realization through vendor relationships, implementing best practices, driving cost efficiencies, and ensuring compliance through effective contract negotiations. Additionally, identifying roles, responsibility, and accountability for business stakeholders and their third parties from initial engagement through termination, while continually optimizing processes, systems, and controls used in monitoring and managing risk. 

Working with each functional leader to ensure centralized sourcing and procurement efforts including initial needs identification to final goods or service delivery.  Managing the entire end-to-end process, i.e., demand management via stakeholder management, supply analysis/strategy, supplier identification, sourcing execution (i.e., RFP), contract negotiation, delivery planning and monitoring, purchase execution and payment, and ongoing performance management and improvement. Establishes and oversees a comprehensive vendor governance model, ensuring transparency, accountability, and risk management from initial engagement through termination

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Management of organizational procurement strategy, best-practice based processes and short, mid, and long-term goals and objectives

• Build and foster strong cross-functional partnerships to ensure clear roles, responsibilities, and accountability occur between business stakeholder and third-party providers.

• Identification and realization of cost-saving / cost-reduction and cost-avoidance opportunities

• Optimize established procurement workflows, systems, and controls to enhance supplier performance, improve contract management, support sustainability, and enhance growth.

• Management of procurement systems

• Overall management of a remote and distributed procurement staff and vendor management and vendor risk staff and their skills and competency development and knowledge management capabilities

• Budget management for commodities under management – and for procurement itself

• Development of benchmarks and scorecards to be used for continuous vendor improvement

• Conduct initial and recurring Vendor Risk Assessments and manage any associated risk remediation efforts

• Monitor vendor performance to established SLAs and report any/all deficiencies to business stakeholders and procurement resources

• Ensure invoice accuracy and compliance with contract / pricing / payment terms and take corrective actions as required

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Seven or more years of experience in leadership roles, including at least five years of procurement and vendor management experience

• Excellent leadership skills including the ability to think critically and independently, communicate effectively, and personal integrity

• Understanding of business administration, to include planning and regulatory issues facing federal contractors (e.g. ITAR controls, TAA controls, CMMC, etc.)

• Solid grasp of data analysis and performance metrics

• Ability to diagnose problems quickly and foresee potential issues

• Ability to deliver results with li