Head of Global IT Sourcing and Vendor Management

What Makes a Honda, Is Who Makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential.

To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

• The Department Lead for Global IT Strategic Sourcing sets the global strategic direction for IT procurement, standardizing category management, sourcing, contracting, and asset management to deliver best value, cost efficiency, and risk management for AHM IT and Honda.
• The role leads a globally distributed team and partners with global/regional IT leaders and Indirect Procurement to drive supplier performance, ensure software compliance and license optimization, and support complex negotiations that enable business outcomes.
• The role also provides governance and performance oversight for outsourced IT vendors and the internal Global Capability Center (GCC) to ensure service quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.

• Planning and strategy:
  • Set the global IT strategic sourcing vision, strategy, and operating model aligned to Honda s business objectives, technology roadmap, and financial targets.
  • Develop and maintain multi-year category strategies and roadmaps (software, services, infrastructure, and emerging needs) in partnership with IT leaders and Global/Regional Indirect Procurement.
  • Define standard processes, templates, and governance for category planning, sourcing, contracting, and software asset management to enable repeatable execution across regions.
  • Translate strategy into measurable outcomes (value, cost, risk, and service) and communicate progress to executive stakeholders.
• Advanced leadership:
  • Lead global and regional sourcing initiatives to optimize IT spend through rationalization, consolidation, and demand management; monitor market trends to identify savings and improvement opportunities.
  • Lead complex negotiations and executive-level stakeholder alignment to secure best value, service levels, and contractual protections (commercial, legal, information security, and delivery).
  • Drive disciplined contract lifecycle management for strategic suppliers, including renewals, performance remedies, and change control, to reduce disruption and improve outcomes.
  • Represent Global IT Strategic Sourcing as a trusted advisor to IT and business leaders, influencing decisions on sourcing models, supplier strategy, and investment trade-offs.
• Vendor assessments:
  • Establish supplier performance management across global and regional vendors by defining KPIs/SLAs, scorecards, and review cadences (QCD, risk, compliance, and customer outcomes).
  • Increase spend and contract visibility through consistent categorization, supplier segmentation, and analytics to identify improvement, consolidation, and risk-reduction opportunities.
  • Lead vendor business reviews and executive escalations; drive corrective actions and continuous improvement through PDCA, including remediation plans where performance gaps exist.
  • Provide governance and performance oversight for outsourced IT vendors and the internal Global Capability Center (GCC) to ensure service quality, compliance, and alignment to business needs.
  • Define and enforce service management expectations (roles, escalation paths, reporting, and root-cause analysis) to address incidents and recurring issues.
  • Ensure vendor/GCC delivery aligns with contract scope and outcomes;…