Technology & Data Procurement Manager

RenaissanceRe is a leading writer of Property & Casualty Reinsurance. For over 25 years, we have helped customers and communities recover and build resilience through our industry-leading ability to understand risk, source efficient capital and rapidly pay claims. Our global team shares a passion for solving our customers’ biggest problems through a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture that empowers employees and rewards creative thinking. About RenaissanceRe For over three decades, RenaissanceRe has helped its clients manage the risks of operating in a volatile and uncertain world. We’re experts in Property, Casualty, Specialty, and Credit reinsurance, consistently recognized for the innovative way we combine data, experience and technology to understand and manage large and complex risks across the world. We are also a business with a real social purpose - we help protect communities around the globe and enable prosperity for all. Our purpose drives us forward every day as we seek solutions to some of the world's most complicated challenges. To learn more, please visit us at Careers - RenaissanceRe (renre.com) .

SUMMARY: The Technology & Data Procurement Manager will contribute to strategic commercial engagement while also supporting practical procurement delivery and sourcing activities where required across Technology, Data and related vendor categories.  The role will support both ongoing vendor and renewal activities, and the phased development of Procurement’s broader category management, commercial governance and enterprise vendor management capability. This role will work closely with Procurement leadership to help improve commercial visibility, renewal coordination, vendor governance and enterprise leverage across strategically important vendor relationships. This role extends beyond traditional transactional IT Procurement activities and requires a balance of commercial capability, stakeholder engagement and practical procurement delivery experience. The Technology & Data Procurement Manager combines commercial engagement with practical procurement delivery responsibilities across Technology and data-related vendor activities. The focus includes vendor coordination, sourcing support, renewals, commercial negotiations and contributing to the long-term development of Procurement capability across the organization. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES: Strategic Vendor & Commercial Management Support commercial engagement across strategic Technology, Data and related vendor categories Lead or support complex renewals, negotiations and commercial structuring activities Support sourcing, procurement and vendor engagement activities across Technology and Data-related business and stakeholder groups Improve visibility of vendor commitments, renewal timelines and pricing exposure Support vendor consolidation and enterprise leverage opportunities Help manage commercial risk relating to vendor concentration, contract structures and long-term pricing exposure Contribute to improved commercial governance across strategically important vendor relationships Category & Commercial Strategy Support development of category approaches across Technology and Data spend areas Contribute to pricing analysis, benchmarking and commercial governance activities Support future-facing procurement approaches relating to SaaS, AI, data and platform vendors Assist in establishing scalable vendor governance and commercial management practices Help shape Procurement engagement models across strategic vendor ecosystems Procurement capability build Contribute to development of Procurement operating standards and category engagement models Support creation of vendor, renewal and opportunity visibility frameworks Participate in procurement technology roadmap and workflow evolution discussions Help embed Procurement earlier into strategic vendor decision-making processes Support broader operating model and Procurement maturity initiatives as