Senior Operations Program Manager - CoreAI

Senior Operations Program Manager - CoreAI

United States, Washington, Redmond

Job description

Company and benefits

Job number 200055906

Date posted Sep 17, 2026

Work site 3 days / week in-office

Travel Less than 25%

Profession Business Operations

Discipline Business Program Management

Role type Individual Contributor

Employment type Full-Time

Overview

The CoreAI Senior Operations Program Manager leads end-to-end procurement operations for external staffing and third-party software. The role develops outsourcing strategies, optimizes vendor spend, simplifies procurement workflows, and provides leadership with clear visibility into budgets, supplier performance, dependencies, and risk.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of CoreAI’s Procurement-as-a-Service team, owning strategy, spend management, and end-to-end execution for external staffing and third-party software procurement.

• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g. Business managers, senior team leader, vendor champs) to define outsourcing strategy for each group. Leverage preferred suppliers. Drive collaboration with vendor champs to identify duplication across teams and consolidate vendors for efficiency and leverage

• Drive cost optimization opportunities through strategic sourcing, including master agreements, pricing initiatives, competitive bidding, schedule commitments, risk allocation, claims resolution, and performance management. PO submission, manage invoices, renewals, and financial tracking.

• Apply value engineering, market intelligence, competitive bidding, and supplier relationship management to reduce costs while maintaining quality and reliability standards.

• Maintain a consolidated view of vendors, contracts, spend, and dependencies. Track budgets, forecasts, and risks across vendor engagements to support fiscal-year planning, budgeting, and trade-off decisions related to vendor spend.

• Inventory all roles, groups, and resources then drive a burn down plan to eliminate duplication, consolidate access paths.

• Act as a single point of contact so teams don’t navigate finance, legal, and procurement separately. Standardized workflows and streamline intake, approvals, and onboarding

• Establish procurement governance, forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics to provide leadership visibility into spend, schedule, supply chain health, and program risks.

• Supplier performance governance through procurement manager engagement at Corp level, escalation management, recovery planning, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure delivery, quality, and cost objectives are achieved.

• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with key suppliers to improve supply assurance, increase flexibility, accelerate deployment schedules, and strengthen long-term capacity planning.

• Key Outcomes / Measures of Success

• Procurement and fiscal year planning deliverables are completed on time and aligned with approved strategies.

• Timely business insights that support leader budget planning, improve decision quality, and drive accountability for execution.

• Positive stakeholder signals reflect stronger role clarity, operational effectiveness, and business partnership.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 4+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement
• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.