Manager, Enterprise Procurement

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations &amp; Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.</p><p>Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><u><strong>Role Purpose</strong></u></p><p>NBCUniversal is seeking a motivated procurement professional to join the Enterprise IT Infrastructure Procurement team. This role supports sourcing, commercial negotiations, and category management across a broad portfolio of enterprise IT infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, Generative AI platforms, compute, storage, networking, colocation, and end-user computing.</p><p>The ideal candidate is an experienced technology dealmaker with strong commercial instincts, a data-driven approach to negotiations, and a genuine interest in enterprise technology. They enjoy understanding how technology works, ask thoughtful questions, challenge supplier assumptions, and validate business value to drive better commercial outcomes.</p><p>Working closely with Procurement leadership, Finance, Legal, Engineering, and business stakeholders, this individual will negotiate supplier agreements, analyze spend and market data, support category strategies, and manage supplier relationships across the enterprise. The role offers significant opportunities to develop expertise across strategic infrastructure categories, including cloud and Generative AI, while delivering measurable business value from day one.</p><p> </p><p><u><strong>Responsibilities</strong></u></p><ul><li>Lead sourcing initiatives and negotiate commercial agreements across a broad IT infrastructure portfolio, including cloud infrastructure, Generative AI platforms, compute, storage, networking, colocation, end-user computing, and related infrastructure technologies.</li><li>Draft, review, and redline complex technology agreements, ensuring favorable commercial terms and appropriate risk mitigation.</li><li>Review technical proposals, bills of materials (BOMs), pricing models, and commercial terms to validate competitiveness, identify cost optimization opportunities, and ensure alignment with business requirements.</li><li>Maintain infrastructure pricing benchmarks, supplier discount libraries, and commercial intelligence to improve negotiation outcomes and pricing consistency.</li><li>Analyze infrastructure spend, budgets, supplier performance, and forecasts, and develop dashboards that combine spend, contract, budget, and supplier information to identify trends, support data-driven procurement decisions, and uncover sourcing opportunities.</li><li>Partner with Finance and business stakeholders to collect budget information and improve forecasting across key infrastructure suppliers.</li><li>Maintain visibility into enterprise Generative AI investments by tracking spend, identifying consolidation opportunities, highlighting technology alignment across business units, and leveraging enterprise scale to support strategic sourcing initiatives.</li><li>Support category strategy development by evaluating suppliers, market trends, commercial risks, stakeholder priorities, and opportunities to improve value across assigned infrastructure categories.</li><li>Build trusted relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders while effectively navigating a large, matrixed organization.</li><li>Identify opportunities to improve procurement processes through automation, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, and continuous process improvement.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><u><strong>Basic Qualifications</strong></u></p><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Business, Procurement, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or a related field