Strategic Vendor Lead

Job Description: Strategic Vendor Lead

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) powers Oracle’s global cloud services through highly available, large-scale, enterprise-grade data center environments. The Data Center Infrastructure Operations / Facilities team plays a critical role in sustaining OCI’s performance, security, and operational resilience by ensuring infrastructure systems operate reliably at scale.

You will join a technically rigorous organization with a culture grounded in operational excellence, disciplined processes, and continuous improvement, where infrastructure reliability, safety, and execution quality are foundational to delivering cloud services worldwide.

This role is the single-threaded owner for vendor execution—ensuring contracts translate into reliable outcomes that protect uptime, safety, and delivery commitments.

Skills And Competencies

• Confident negotiator and conflict resolver with strong stakeholder presence.
• Data-driven approach to performance tracking and issue management.
• Proficient in contract management and reporting systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end vendor lifecycle activities, including selection, negotiation support, onboarding, performance management, and compliance enforcement.
• Track vendor performance against SLAs, KPIs, and safety requirements; drive corrective actions and escalate systemic issues.
• Conduct vendor risk assessments and support business continuity and contingency planning for critical services.
• Coordinate execution across site operations, engineering, procurement, finance, and legal to ensure alignment and timely resolution.
• Lead vendor performance reviews and provide clear, data-backed reporting to site and regional stakeholders.
• Able to travel up to 25%

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Experience managing critical vendors in data center, construction, utilities, or regulated enterprise environments.
• Strong contract and commercial acumen with comfort navigating complex vendor relationships.
• Working knowledge of compliance, safety, and risk management practices.

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

• Global impact at scale: Contribute directly to how mission-critical OCI data centers operate across regions and continents, influencing infrastructure reliability, security, sustainability, and long-term capacity growth.
• Technically rigorous environment: Work alongside experienced engineers, automation specialists, and compliance teams in a rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure, where disciplined execution and technical depth matter.
• Culture built on operational excellence: Join an organization that values safety, process rigor, clear accountability, and continuous improvement as foundational to protecting uptime and customer trust.
• Long-term career development: Benefit from internal mobility, role-based technical training, and development opportunities designed for professionals building long-term careers in cloud infrastructure and facilities operations.

Key skills/competency

• Vendor Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Performance Tracking
• Risk Assessment
• Compliance Enforcement
• Stakeholder Management
• Operational Excellence
• Data Center Operations
• Procurement
• SLA Management