Salesforce Senior Director Supplier Third-Party Risk Management 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

737853720

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Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead the global supplier third-party risk strategy, ensuring alignment with procurement goals and the company’s broader enterprise risk management framework.
• Own and operationalize risk segmentation, due diligence, and onboarding processes across a diverse supplier base (e.g., IT services, cloud platforms, software vendors, and consulting firms).
• Embed supplier risk management into the full procurement lifecycle—from sourcing to renewal and off-boarding—through governance policies, workflows, and automation tools.
• Collaborate closely with Government Affairs, Legal, Security, Global Trade, Compliance, IT, and Finance to assess and mitigate risk in critical supplier engagements.
• Oversee supplier risk assessments, periodic monitoring, and control enforcement, ensuring compliance with global standards.
• Provide regular updates, dashboards, and escalations to Procurement leadership, the Risk Steering Committee, and senior executives.
• Lead incident response and remediation processes involving suppliers in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Drive adoption and optimization of TPRM tools and platforms (e.g., Credit Risk Monitoring, OneSource, KY3).
• Build and manage a high-performing global team focused on third-party and supplier risk operations.
• Monitor industry trends, emerging risks (e.g., AI vendor risks), and evolving regulations to ensure program agility and compliance.

Skills:

• Demonstrated ability and passion for dissecting/solving problems with a fact based, data driven, rigorous, and creative approach
• Thrives when multi-tasking and work best in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Manages multiple tasks, projects and timelines with a sense of urgency, ownership and within deadline
• Excellent attention to detail and have strong analytical skills
• Willingness to go above and beyond to resolve an issue
• Collaboration and communication skills (both verbal and written) are top notch, experience in presenting to different audiences (individual teams to executive level)
• Communicates in a clear, concise and timely manner and operates effectively as a team player
• Confident in managing and executing projects from start to finish
• Resourceful with a strong work ethic and are willing to go the extra mile to get work done
• Self-directed/driven with excellent organizational skills
• Tech savvy and have a strong interest and proven success in working with technology (including new software tools and systems implementations) and able to learn, set up and champion new and best in class technology

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Risk Management, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in procurement, supplier risk, or third-party governance in a global technology, SaaS, or enterprise environment.
• At least 5 years in a senior leadership role managing cross-functional risk or procurement teams.
• Strong understanding of third-party risk domains (i.e. cybersecurity, data privacy, operational risk, financial risk).
• Demonstrated success building or transforming TPRM programs within a procurement or vendor governance function.
• Excellent communication and executive stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with procurement platforms (e.g., Coupa) and TPRM tools.

Preferred Certifications:

• Certified Third-Party Risk Professional (CTPRP)
• CISM, CISSP, or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer (if security-focused)
• CPSM or PMP (for procurement/project leadership)
• SASB/FSA or ESG-related certification (preferred)

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