Head of Technology Commercial and Procurement Specialist
1 week ago
About the Role
As a key member of the Spotify team, you will play a critical role in shaping the company's technology strategy. As the Head of Technology Commercial and Procurement, you will be responsible for leading the purchase and oversight of all technology at Spotify.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead technology sourcing and procurement, vendor management, and cost engineering to ensure the company's technology needs are met efficiently and effectively.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to lead sourcing and negotiation of commercial agreements with key technology providers, staying informed of market trends and technology innovations.
- Develop and implement service level agreements with vendors, working in partnership with other Spotify leads to supervise performance, continually optimize value, and address issues when things do not go according to plan.
- Serve as the custodian for financial forecasting, cost clarity, and realization of cost savings for use of infrastructure-as-a-service and cloud native technology providers.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading multi-disciplined teams spanning technology, financial planning, and vendor management.
- Significant experience working at or with leading cloud providers, with a deep understanding of critical technology for internet-based technology companies across cloud computing, big data, and mobile computing.
- Immersed in the cloud landscape, with a keen eye for new technologies, vendors, tools, and partner management approaches, and the ability to synthesize these into easily digestible strategies, delivery plans, and metrics.
- Broad enterprise technology background and proven experience building accountability mechanisms, holding partners accountable to commitments, and resolving issues.
- Real-world program management skills, especially leading decentralized programs across a diverse number of partners and experienced leading development source-to-pay processes, in the tech domain.
- Data-driven, comfortable using analytical or data scientist skills, and able to communicate messages to different personas using meaningful metrics.
Location
- This role will ideally be located in Stockholm or London, or potentially one of our other EMEA locations (*excluding Germany, France and Netherlands for now due to on-call restrictions).
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