Director of Strategic Sourcing - IT
The Director of Strategic Sourcing – IT leads the organisation’s IT sourcing and supplier management strategy, including software, cloud services, hardware, cybersecurity, and IT professional services. This role delivers value through cost optimisation, supplier innovation, risk mitigation, and strong contract execution.
Partnering closely with IT, Finance, Legal, and Information Security, the Director aligns sourcing strategy with enterprise technology priorities. This role leads a team and is accountable for category strategy, supplier performance, negotiations, governance, and continuous improvement.
- Develop and execute IT sourcing and category strategies aligned to business and technology priorities.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to IT leadership, Finance, and business stakeholders.
- Establish sourcing governance, policies, and best practices.
- Lead end-to-end sourcing initiatives, including RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, and negotiations.
- Build total cost of ownership (TCO) models and business cases.
- Drive supplier consolidation, cost optimisation, and efficiency improvements.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and sourcing models to support digital initiatives.
- Manage key technology supplier relationships and performance.
- Negotiate complex enterprise agreements across software, SaaS, cloud, hardware, and services.
- Ensure strong commercial terms (pricing, SLAs, security, IP, risk protections).
- Partner with Legal, Security, and Risk teams on supplier governance and risk management.
- Deliver cost savings, cost avoidance, and working capital improvements.
- Monitor and optimise IT spend, licensing, and cloud utilisation.
- Support budgeting and forecasting activities.
- Build relationships across IT, Security, Architecture, PMO, and business teams.
- Influence stakeholders on sourcing strategy and decisions.
- Drive adoption of procurement processes with a customer-focused approach.
- Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing sourcing team.
- Set performance goals and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Ensure compliance with procurement policies and regulatory standards.
- Support third-party risk, due diligence, and business continuity planning.
- Promote ethical sourcing and supplier diversity initiatives.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain, Finance, Information Systems, or related field (required).
- Master's degree or MBA (preferred).
- 10+ years of progressive procurement or strategic sourcing experience (required).
- 5+ years leading enterprise IT sourcing and category management (required).
- 3+ years of leadership experience (required).
- Demonstrated success negotiating complex enterprise technology agreements valued at multiple millions of dollars (required).
- Experience with strategic sourcing methodologies and category management (required).
- Strong understanding of software licensing models, SaaS, cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), cybersecurity, and IT professional services (required).
- Knowledge of software asset management (SAM) and IT asset management (ITAM) (required).
Light & Wonder, Inc. is a leading cross-platform gaming company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Formerly known as Scientific Games, it rebranded in 2022 after divesting its lottery and sports-betting businesses to focus on gaming. The company operates across three segments - Gaming (slot machines, table games and casino systems under brands such as Bally, WMS and Shuffle Master), SciPlay (social casino games) and iGaming (online casino content). Listed in both the US and Australia, it supplies content and systems to casinos and online operators worldwide.