This position is for a Managing Director in the Strategic Partnerships and D&T Capabilities organization. This role drives strategic value by managing the entire supplier lifecycle, ensuring compliance, and providing rigorous financial stewardship across our vendor landscape. You will also head a dedicated analytics wing supporting all data technology, utilizing data-driven insights to optimize vendor and D&T organizational performance.
Essential Functions
- Accountable for developing roadmaps with our strategic partners to align with our strategies, services, and products and ensure FedEx and partner compliance with our contractual obligations.
- Supplier KPIs and roadmap creation to monitor the strategic partner landscape while supporting quality and value realization.
- Strategic partner contract management & performance: Ownership of all phases of the contract lifecycle with strategic professional service partners/vendors and continual performance monitoring of strategic partners/vendors against key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure contractual obligations are met.
- Direct oversight and management of hardware and software contracts, ensuring optimal licensing, performance, and compliance across the organization.
- Identifying, assessing, and mitigating strategic supplier-related risks to protect the organization's reputation and assets.
- Managing the entire strategic supplier lifecycle, from selection to offboarding, to ensure that suppliers are managed effectively throughout their engagement with the organization.
- Accountable for the financial stewardship of strategic partnerships, including budget management, forecasting, and driving cost optimization initiatives.
- Leads a dedicated analytics wing that supports all data tech and provides data-driven insights to guide strategic decision-making and optimize vendor performance.
- Developing and maintaining positive and mutually beneficial relationships with strategic suppliers to enhance customer experience.
- Develops and leads a best-in-class D&T Analytics team responsible for the health of the larger data and technology organization.
- Maintains a spirit and focus of execution and value creation – drives continuous improvement into process, behaviors, technology refresh/implementation and delivery mechanisms into all aspects of the Strategic Partnerships and data analytics
- Empowers the workforce for an AI-driven, digital-first future
- Leverage AI thought leadership and AI tooling to design a best in class, efficient organization
- Create a compelling vision, clear direction, and strategy for the team leaning into an AI led approach.
- Attract, motivate, develop, and retain highly skilled leaders and professionals to drive value creation and execution.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Excellent visual, oral, and written communications skills including developing customer-facing presentations.
- Experience with solutions-based thinking.
- Experience with AI Native thinking
- Experience embedding AI into day-to-day workflows
- Experience leading project or program management teams and orchestration of cross-functional team members to achieve goals.
- Strong financial acumen with experience in budget management and cost-benefit analysis.
- Experience leading data analytics teams or initiatives, specifically supporting data technology frameworks.
- Knowledge of hardware and software contract negotiation and licensing models.
- Working in a fast-paced environment with a bias to action.
- Strong internal customer relationship management skills.
- Flexibility to manage multiple priorities and initiatives simultaneously.
- Leadership experience in Supplier Management or Audit / Compliance.
- Experience driving change initiatives across large, cross-functional organizations.
- Ability to build collaborative working relationships with internal and external customers and meet time sensitive deadlines.
Minimum Education
A bachelor's degree in finance, data science, computer science, information technology, or a related field.
Preferred
An MBA (Master of Business Administration) or a master's in information technology, data science, engineering, or finance related field.
Minimum Experience
- 15 years of total experience with 5-8 years in a leadership role.
- Experience in managing multi-million-dollar budgets and P&L responsibility.
