Senior Manager, Procurement

Description

About the Company: Inter Miami CF (IMCF or the Club) is a Major League Soccer club competing in the Eastern Conference, owned by Miami Beckham United and playing at its newly developed permanent stadium (Nu Stadium) at Miami Freedom Park, a 25,000-seat stadium within a 131-acre master-planned site featuring a 55-acre public park, structured parking, and over one million square feet of mixed-use retail, entertainment, commercial, and hospitality development.

The Club operates a growing and complex business spanning professional sports, live events, stadium operations, retail, food and beverage, sponsor ships, and media which is supported by a lean Finance and Accounting function responsible for accounting, financial planning and analysis, cash management, procurement, and investor relations across multiple legal entities.

Position Summary:

The Senior Manager, Procurement will be the Club's inaugural dedicated procurement leader, responsible for architecting, implementing, and enforcing the end-to-end source-to-pay (S2P) function across Miami Beckham United (MBU). This is a rare opportunity for a seasoned procurement professional to design a procurement operating model from the ground up in a high-growth, high-visibility organization entering its most consequential phase of commercial scale.

The Senior Manager, Procurement will be responsible for enabling cost containment, cost reduction, and cost control across all third-party spend s role will design and enforce the Club's purchase order policy, approval authority matrices, vendor onboarding standards, payment governance, and compliance reporting. The Senior Manager, Procurement will operate as the enforcement arm of the Club's Cost Control Policy Framework, with explicit authority relating to non-compliant spend.

In addition to policy authorship and enforcement, this role will build the Club's vendor management infrastructure, including vendor master data integrity, competitive bidding programs (RFI/RFQ/RFP), recurring and periodic contract commercial reviews, insurance and tax compliance validation, and ongoing spend analytics for sustainable cost reduction. The Senior Manager, Procurement will drive the transition to an environment where essentially all spend flows through procedures where competitive sourcing, PO discipline, and vendor accountability are the operating standards.

The role initially covers all MBU operations, with scope expansion into Miami Freedom Park (MFP) contemplated as that business platform matures. The Senior Manager, Procurement will report directly to the MBU Chief Financial Officer, and unify source-to-pay execution under a single accountable owner and function.

The Senior Manager, Procurement will serve as a trusted operational partner across the organization, translating procurement discipline into measurable outcomes: quantified savings, improved control coverage, cleaner vendor data, and defensible spend governance visible to lenders, auditors, and ultimately the ownership group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Author, publish, and enforce the Club's Cost Control Policy Framework, including purchase order requirements, approval authority matrices, vendor onboarding standards, and payment governance.
• Exercise stop-work and stop-payment authority for any commitment or invoice that does not comply with established procurement policy, escalating exceptions to the Chief Financial Officer on a documented basis.
• Serve as the Club's primary internal enforcement authority for third-party spend discipline, including formal partnership with cost center leaders on remediation of policy exceptions.
• Design and administer training programs and materials for department leaders, budget owners, and approvers on procurement policy, personal accountability standards, and system workflows.
• Establish and maintain the exceptions process, including documentation, review cadence, escalation protocol, and highly visible compliance reporting.

• Design and lead all RFI, RFQ, and RFP activity for the Club, including scope definition, vendor identification, bid evaluation, and…