{"id":980161,"url":"https://alion.io/job/csl-associate-director-technology-sourcing","title":"Associate Director, Technology Sourcing","company":{"id":723138,"name":"CSL Limited","domain":"csl.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/csl-5","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":29,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.828,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":29,"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["King of Prussia, United States","Boca Raton, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":140000,"max_usd":265000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1520},"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-21T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-21","last_verified_at":"2026-10-18T22:47:44Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":60,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":60},"description":"The Opportunity\nThe Associate Director, Technology Sourcing is responsible for developing and executing strategic sourcing strategies for indirect goods and services within a defined portfolio of CSL enterprise-wide spend.\n\nThe I&T sourcing lead will be accountable for securing maximum value from $450M+ in external spend, creating competitive advantage for CSL through year-over-year, multi-million-dollar savings, risk mitigation, supplier relationship management, innovation, and robust contractual negotiations.\n\nThis role serves as the Global Subject Matter Expert (SME) for technology categories including hardware, software, data centers, IT maintenance, licenses, and other related services. The Associate Director will develop and execute senior-level stakeholder engagement and alignment strategies to ensure the current and future needs of the business are effectively addressed.\n\nYou will provide guidance and leadership to Sourcing Managers within the team and be directly involved in major global sourcing initiatives, key transformational projects, and strategic supplier engagements. The role will build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders across CSL and with large, global technology vendors, bringing leading-edge solutions and best practices into CSL to drive ongoing efficiency and value.\n\nReporting directly to: Category Director - Enabling Functions\nDirect Reports: None\nResponsibilities:\nDevelop and execute global technology category strategies and multi-year roadmaps across software, SaaS, cloud services, infrastructure, hardware, telecommunications, cybersecurity, data centers, IT maintenance, and professional services. Establish annual action plans aligned with CSL’s business objectives, technology roadmap, operating models, and Procurement strategy.\n\nLead complex, high-value strategic sourcing initiatives and competitive tendering processes, including RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs, driving negotiations and contract awards that optimize total cost of ownership, quality, service, innovation, risk, and long-term business value.\n\nAnalyze spend, market trends, supplier dynamics, and supply risks to identify cost savings, demand management, supplier consolidation, license optimization, benchmarking, and other value creation opportunities while ensuring sourcing decisions support financial and operational objectives.\n\nServe as the Global SME and strategic procurement advisor for technology categories, providing market intelligence, sourcing expertise, and strategic direction on complex initiatives while staying current on emerging technologies, commercial models, supplier innovations, and industry best practices.\n\nBuild and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders and strategic suppliers, partnering across I&T, Information Security, Finance, Legal, and the broader business to translate business and technology requirements into effective sourcing, contracting, and supplier strategies.\n\nProvide strategic guidance to Sourcing Managers and collaborate with Procurement colleagues to ensure consistent execution of category strategies, sourcing initiatives, supplier management activities, and global procurement priorities.\n\nLead strategic supplier relationship and performance management, including supplier governance, business reviews, KPIs, scorecards, SLAs, and continuous improvement programs. Establish appropriate governance for business-critical categories and drive year-over-year improvements in performance, service, quality, innovation, and value.\n\nLead complex commercial and contractual negotiations with major global technology suppliers, including software licensing, cloud consumption models, SOWs, MSAs, and enterprise agreements, ensuring contracts appropriately address CSL’s commercial, operational, security, compliance, and business continuity requirements.\n\nIdentify, assess, and mitigate supplier and category risks, including cybersecurity, data privacy, financial stability, supply continuity, regulatory compliance, and other operational risks. Develop long-term supplier continuity and risk mitigation strategies to protect CSL’s business.\n\nDrive procurement transformation and continuous improvement by leading complex problem resolution, data analytics, process reengineering, sourcing automation, and the implementation of sustainable global programs and best practices that improve efficiency and decision-making across CSL.\n\nDrive stakeholder alignment and executive engagement by serving as a strategic procurement partner and primary point of contact for assigned technology categories, building trusted relationships with senior CSL leaders and executives at strategic global suppliers to address business priorities, supplier performance, procurement initiatives, and broader organizational opportunities.\n\nMonitor and report category and supplier performance using financial and operational KPIs, dashboards, and data-driven insights. Provide recommendations and updates to Procurement leadership and key stakeholders across I&T, Finance, and other business functions to support informed decision-making.\n\nChampion strong procurement governance and ethical sourcing practices, ensuring sourcing and supplier activities adhere to CSL policies, applicable laws and regulations, anti-bribery requirements, conflict-of-interest standards, and other governance requirements, while supporting supplier diversity and inclusion objectives.\n\nAdditional Responsibilities:\nRisk management.\n\nTraining and development.\n\nMarket intelligence sharing.\n\nSupport change initiatives.\n\nStakeholder engagement.\n\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.\n\n7+ years of progressive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or a related discipline, with significant experience managing technology and IT categories within a complex, global or multi-site organization.\n\nDemonstrated experience developing and executing global category strategies across technology spend, including enterprise software, SaaS, cloud services, IT infrastructure, hardware, telecommunications, cybersecurity, data centers, IT maintenance, and technology professional services.\n\nProven success leading complex, high-value sourcing initiatives and negotiations, including enterprise software licensing, SaaS agreements, cloud commercial models, managed services, strategic technology partnerships, and other enterprise technology contracts.\n\nStrong understanding of technology commercial and contractual structures, including Master Service Agreements (MSAs), SaaS agreements, software licensing, cloud terms, maintenance agreements, Statements of Work (SOWs), and other enterprise technology agreements.\n\nDemonstrated experience in strategic supplier relationship management, including supplier selection and evaluation, governance, performance management, business reviews, KPIs, risk mitigation, continuity planning, and continuous improvement.\n\nStrong financial and analytical acumen, with experience in spend analysis, market and supplier analysis, benchmarking, total cost of ownership (TCO), cost modeling, and identifying measurable savings and value creation opportunities.\n\nExceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and influence senior I&T, business, Finance, Legal, Information Security, and other functional leaders in a global environment.\n\nStrong negotiation, communication, project management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and translate data and insights into actionable sourcing strategies and business decisions.\n\nExperience working across global organizations and time zones, with the ability to effectively manage relationships with senior internal stakeholders and external executives at strategic global suppliers.\n\nExperience with procurement and sourcing technologies such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Jaggaer, Ivalua, or similar platforms, as well as Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), spend analytics, and related procurement tools preferred.\n\nProfessional procurement certification such as ISM/CPSM, CPM, or CIPS preferred.\n\nDemonstrated ability to identify and implement innovative sourcing strategies and best practices that improve efficiency, mitigate risk, support technology transformation, and deliver sustainable year-over-year value for CSL.\n\nTravel: Approximately 5% domestic and international travel expected.\n\nAbout CSL Behring\nCSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.\nCSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.\nTo learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.\nOur Benefits\nFor more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.\nYou Belong at CSL\nAt CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.\nTo learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nCSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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