Senior Manager, Production Technology Procurement

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Your New Role...

The Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Senior Manager for Production Technology Procurement supports category strategy development and associated initiatives for all Production Technology subcategories for the company. Production Technology represents ~$50M in third party spend across WBD’s 30+ brands and is a key contributor to business success and revenue growth. The role will collaborate with various internal clients to lead enterprise-level sourcing strategies, manage complex negotiations, and support category management across production technology spend areas. This role will partner closely with WBD technology organizations that support production and post production teams to ensure sourcing initiatives are aligned with business priorities. Example projects this role would lead sourcing support for may include software for production finance / accounting activities, production and post production software and/or hardware for production asset lifecycle management, workflow tools, content collaboration tools, editing tools, etc.

The Senior Manager also serves as a trusted advisor to executives and business leaders, driving innovation, supplier performance, and transformation across procurement initiatives. The role will contribute to cross-functional initiatives, support executive-level reporting, and champion procurement best practices.

This role reports to the VP, Production & Content Supply Chain Procurement and will also work closely with the leads of Production Procurement and Post Production & Content Supply Chain Procurement.

Your Role Accountabilities...

Negotiations, Contract Creation & Management: Sr Manager will lead business and technical negotiations for highly complex technology deals, including:

• Develops enterprise contract strategies by gathering global stakeholder requirements.

• Interprets and communicating contract terms; identifying risks and drafting custom protections for current and future negotiations.

• Collaborates with Legal to resolve contractual challenges and with Finance to align on budgets and commercial objectives.

• Negotiates pricing, SOWs, SLAs, and other operational terms while aligning with WBD's broader strategic relationships.

• Identifies cross-business opportunities by assessing supplier footprint across WBD and crafting strategic concessions and fallbacks.

• Leads negotiations end-to-end, including alignment with senior leadership (SVP/EVP+) on strategy, positioning, and risk mitigation.

• Understands both vendor solutions and WBD's workflow / architecture to optimize negotiations using competition, benchmarked terms, and collective buying power.

• Drives deals to closure with strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills, and by fostering collaboration across multifunctional teams.

Sourcing & Partnership Strategy: Sr Manager will lead development and execution of sourcing and vendor management strategies to support WBD’s evolving production technology landscape by:

• Acts as a strategic advisor and liaison across Legal, Finance, Security, Global Content Operations, and Technology stakeholders, including SVP, EVP, and C-level leadership, ensuring alignment on priorities and timely issue resolution.

• Develops and evolves procurement frameworks, negotiation playbooks, and supplier engagement models to drive consistency, efficiency, and value.

• Maintains deep expertise in sourcing, contract negotiation, and vendor management best practices; brings thought leadership on market trends, emerging technologies, and supplier innovations.

• Identifies strategic opportunities for supplier rationalization, cost optimization, and adoption of innovative technologies.

• Partners with key stakeholders to align sourcing strategies with long-range business and technology planning initiatives.

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