Senior Director Procurement; Indirect

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

GoDaddy is not currently considering candidates for this role in California, Seattle, or NYC.

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At GoDaddy, we are seeking a dynamic, strategic, and highly influential Senior Director of Global Indirect Procurement to lead our enterprise-wide indirect sourcing strategy across ~$900M in addressable spend. This leader will own category strategy, supplier governance, operational excellence, and digital procurement transformation across key spend areas including Software, Hardware, IT Services, BPO, HR, Marketing, Travel, and Professional Services!

As a senior member of the Procurement leadership team, the Senior Director will build the future of our global procurement operating model, drive measurable value creation, and partner closely with executive collaborators across Finance, IT, HR, Operations, Legal, and Security. This individual will play a critical role in advancing our centralized procurement model and ensuring procurement is a strategic enabler of company-wide performance, cost optimization, and risk mitigation.

What you'll get to do...

Strategic Leadership & Category Ownership

• Develop and implement multi-year category strategies that align with enterprise objectives, operational needs, and financial targets
• Lead all aspects of strategic sourcing, supplier selection, contract structuring, commercial negotiation, and lifecycle supplier management across all indirect categories
• Drive the annual procurement planning cycle, integrating demand forecasting, TCO analysis, market benchmarking, and scenario planning
• Act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, influencing spend behaviors, supplier strategies, and enterprise decision-making
• Build strong category pipelines and proactively find opportunities for innovation, consolidation, and value creation

Cross-Functional Partnership & Executive Engagement

• Partner with IT, Finance, FP&A, HR, GTM, Operations, Legal, and Security to align procurement strategy with functional priorities and business objectives
• Lead business collaborator engagement to ensure sourcing strategies meet service, quality, risk, and budget expectations
• Guide leaders through sourcing decisions, vendor rationalization, and large-scale negotiations
• Serve as a visible and trusted partner to executive leadership on procurement, risk, and supplier strategy topics
• Deliver annual savings targets through cost reduction, cost avoidance, demand management, and improved buying behaviors
• Implement supplier segmentation and governance frameworks that improve accountability, performance, resilience, and innovation
• Assess and mitigate supplier, operational, financial, geopolitical, ESG, and compliance risks for all indirect spending categories
• Enable supplier continuity strategies, including dependency reviews, redundancy planning, and contract-level risk controls
• Lead all aspects of quarterly business reviews and supplier scorecards

Operational Excellence, Process Governance & Digital Procurement

• Lead continuous improvement of procurement processes, policies, controls, and critical metrics across the global organization
• Advance procurement digital transformation by driving adoption of automation, analytics, AI-enabled sourcing tools, workflow software, and dashboards
• Partner with Finance and internal systems teams to improve processes related to spend visibility, contract lifecycle management, supplier onboarding, and compliance
• Ensure consistent global implementation of procurement standards, templates, and governance

Leadership, Team Development & Organizational Transformation

• Lead, motivate, and develop a distributed team of category managers, sourcing specialists, and procurement professionals
• Creating a…