IT Procurement

Role Overview

• Leads complex IT procurement and contract negotiations across software, SaaS, and enterprise system implementations supporting large-scale government operations.
• Owns cradle-to-grave acquisition lifecycle, ensuring compliance, cost optimization, and alignment with security and regulatory requirements.
• Acts as a strategic partner to stakeholders and vendors, balancing operational needs with legal, financial, and procurement constraints.

Core Responsibilities

• Negotiate high-value IT software, SaaS, and services contracts, including pricing, SLAs, and enterprise license agreements.
• Manage full procurement lifecycle (RFP through award and administration) for large-scale IT and system integration initiatives.
• Redline and negotiate legal terms and conditions, including intellectual property, EULA language, and compliance requirements.
• Drive cost savings using commercial levers, including scope control, staffing optimization, and phased delivery strategies.
• Collaborate with legal, finance, and IT stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulatory and security standards.
• Maintain vendor relationships while challenging risk, pricing, or contract terms to protect organizational interests.

Required Experience

• 6 Minimum years of procurement and/or IT contracting experience.
• Proven experience negotiating IT software, SaaS, and IT services contracts with enterprise-scale scope and complexity.
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end procurement lifecycle, including RFP development, evaluation, negotiation, and contract administration.
• Experience redlining and negotiating IT contract legal terms, including IP rights, SLAs, and compliance provisions.
• Ability to drive cost savings through pricing strategy, scope definition, and resource planning.
• Strong stakeholder management and vendor negotiation skills, including handling complex or sensitive contract issues.

Preferred / Valuable Background

• Experience with enterprise platforms such as SAP, PeopleSoft, or Smartsheet in large-scale implementations.
• Background in government or highly regulated procurement environments, including compliance with security and policy standards.
• Experience supporting multi-department or enterprise-wide system integrations with high user impact.

PreScreening Questions - please email the candidate answers to me once candidate is submitted.

• Have you ever negotiated any IT software agreement, software as a service agreement, or IT services agreement? If so, what was the largest contract $ amount and who were the major suppliers?
• Describe a complex IT services negotiation where you drove savings through pricing, scope, or commercial levers; what was your strategy and outcome?
• Do you have any experience with redlining and negotiating legal terms and conditions for an IT contract?
• Give an example of a time you challenged a business stakeholder or vendor on an unreasonable request while maintaining a strong relationship.
• Have you conducted and managed any RFPs from start to finish and if so were any of them for IT system integration services or similar scope of work?

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.

Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.