Senior Procurement & Program Manager – Digital Strategy

Job Description

Senior Procurement & Program Manager – Digital Strategy RFP:
On behalf of our Technology client, Procom is searching for a Senior Procurement & Program Manager – Digital Strategy RFP for a 4–6 month contract role. This position is a hybrid position with 2 days onsite at our client’s Mississauga, Ontario office.

Senior Procurement & Program Manager – Digital Strategy RFP - Job Description:
This project involves executing an enterprise Digital Strategy RFP and vendor selection process. The role requires managing the end-to-end competitive RFP process to select a premier partner for the organization's digital strategy, coordinating multiple consulting and digital agency vendors.

Senior Procurement & Program Manager – Digital Strategy RFP - Responsibilities:
• Partner with Digital, Marketing, IT, Data, Finance, Operations, Legal, and Procurement leaders to define objectives, scope, requirements, and deliverables.
• Design and administer a weighted evaluation matrix covering domain expertise, solution feasibility, team quality, commercials, and cultural fit.
• Manage communications, qualification, NDA coordination, information distribution, and briefing logistics for up to 16 vendors.
• Run a controlled Q&A protocol, including aggregation, sanitization, and anonymized distribution of supplier questions.
• Orchestrate longlist qualification, shortlist scoring, finalist presentations, workshops, and reference checks.
• Train evaluators, normalize scoring, facilitate debriefs, and maintain fair, auditable procurement records.
• Prepare executive briefings, recommendations, risk mitigation plans, and SteerCo/C-suite decision materials.
• Lead TCO comparisons, pricing normalization, BAFO discussions, contract markups, and transition handoff.

Senior Procurement & Program Manager – Digital Strategy RFP - Mandatory Skills:
• 8+ years in strategic sourcing, technology procurement, or enterprise program management.
• Demonstrated ownership of large, complex, competitive RFPs from requirements through award and contracting.
• Experience managing multi-vendor sourcing processes and high-volume supplier communications.
• Strong commercial analysis, TCO modeling, rate-card normalization, and negotiation capability.
• Executive-level facilitation and presentation experience across C-suite, VP, and cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Working knowledge of digital transformation, customer experience, web/app architectures, cloud, data/AI, omni-channel, and operating-model redesign.
• Strong procurement governance, confidentiality, ethics, fairness, and audit-trail discipline.

Senior Procurement & Program Manager – Digital Strategy RFP – Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Financial services, capital markets, exchange, regulated enterprise, or similarly complex procurement experience.
• Experience sourcing global management consultancies, technology integrators, and boutique digital agencies in the same competition.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or a related field; Master’s or MBA preferred.
• PMP, CPSM, or CIPS certification.
• Experience with formal SteerCo governance, reference checks, vendor debriefs, and implementation transition planning.

Senior Procurement & Program Manager – Digital Strategy RFP – Assignment Length:
This is a 4–6 month contract position.

Senior Procurement & Program Manager – Digital Strategy RFP - Start Date:
ASAP.

Senior Procurement & Program Manager – Digital Strategy RFP - Assignment Location:
Mississauga, Ontario, hybrid work model with 2 days in-office.

This employer uses both human and technology-assisted tools to support candidate screening and assessment. Final hiring decisions are made by people.