IMC
Senior Sourcing Lead - Global Storage & SaaS
$140K–$180K
Chicago, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.
About the job
Own global sourcing strategies for storage infrastructure and SaaS, managing vendor relationships, negotiations, renewals, licensing, and usage-based software spend.
What you'll do
- Execute storage and SaaS category strategies, including renewals, license optimization, vendor consolidation, and commercial governance.
- Lead negotiations for storage software, hardware supply, and enterprise SaaS agreements; manage usage-based spend and vendor risk.
- Partner with engineering, security, and finance on infrastructure decisions, vendor evaluations, and investment cases; coach sourcing teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of strategic sourcing or vendor management across infrastructure and enterprise software.
- Direct experience procuring storage at scale, including software-defined storage or enterprise/hyperscale storage hardware.
- Proven experience managing a large SaaS portfolio, complex renewals, enterprise agreements, license optimization, and vendor consolidation.
- Strong analytical and financial modeling skills; experience commercially leading technical POCs and structured vendor evaluations.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with AI software commercial models, including token/usage-based pricing, committed spend, and seat-plus-consumption hybrids.
Pay
$140,000 — $180,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
software-defined storage, SaaS, AI application vendors, developer tooling, FinOps
AI focus
Commercial sourcing and governance of AI application vendors and AI software pricing models.
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