Vice President - Software Sourcing and Procurement

We're seeking someone to join our team as a Vice President to lead end-to-end software sourcing across our Business Applications software portfolio, anchor Dallas as a scaled GSS hub and deliver disciplined commercial outcomes across a high-value, business-critical portfolio.

In the Corporate Services division, we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience, while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you'll do in the role:
- Serve as the Dallas GSS site lead, providing local leadership, operating discipline and execution oversight for GSS staff.
- Oversee a complex portfolio of approximately $.4B in Annual Contract Value, with management responsibility for five Director-level full-time employees in multiple time zones.
- Lead full lifecycle category strategy and execution across our Business Applications software sourcing portfolio, including renewals, new demand, demand management, and supplier rationalization.
- Drive material commercial outcomes through large-scale software negotiations, consumption model optimization, vendor consolidation and disciplined supplier segmentation.
- Provide governance for high-risk and business-critical technology suppliers supporting revenue generation, client servicing, trading and core operational processes.
- Partner with senior technology stakeholders, product owners and finance teams on platform consolidation, resiliency, artificial intelligence enablement and Firm-wide technology transformation priorities.

What you'll bring to the role:
- Significant experience in software sourcing, procurement, vendor management, category strategy and complex technology negotiations.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a broad supplier landscape and translate business, technology and financial priorities into executable sourcing strategies.
- Strong executive stakeholder management skills, including experience partnering with senior technology, product, operations and finance leaders.
- Commercial judgment and governance discipline to manage high-risk suppliers, large renewals, business-critical platforms and sensitive negotiation escalations.
- People leadership experience, including the ability to manage, coach and drive execution through experienced Director-level sourcing professionals.
- Ability to bring structure to a high-volume portfolio, reduce cycle times, sustain savings delivery and support platform consolidation and resiliency priorities.

- Bachelor's degree
 

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.  Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

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