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.
