DraftKings

Procurement Business Partner, Marketing

DraftKings$105K — $132K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, or related field.
  • Minimum 6 years in strategic sourcing, technology procurement, or category management.
  • Strong background in leading technology sourcing initiatives and supplier negotiations.
  • Proven analytical skills for pricing, benchmarking, and total cost of ownership evaluations.
  • Experience using analytics and procurement technology for enhanced sourcing outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead sourcing initiatives for diverse service categories including media and technology services.
  • Collaborate with business leaders to align sourcing strategies with growth and operational priorities.
  • Conduct competitive sourcing events, from RFx development to supplier selection.
  • Negotiate various contracts including agency and consulting agreements.
  • Develop comprehensive commercial agreements with clear performance measures and deliverables.
  • Perform detailed analyses to uncover sourcing and cost optimization opportunities.
  • Manage supplier relationships to meet performance standards and foster innovation.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for career growth in a fast-paced tech environment.
  • Access to procurement technologies and innovative tools.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including Technology and Finance.
  • Support through the gaming license application process if required.
  • Eligibility for bonus and equity compensation.
Full Job Description
The Crown Is Yours

As a Procurement Business Partner supporting Marketing, Corporate Services & Business Operations, you'll lead sourcing initiatives and manage supplier relationships across assigned services categories. You will partner with business leaders to understand demand, develop commercial strategies, evaluate suppliers, and negotiate agreements that support growth and operational priorities. By bringing structure, market insight, and commercial discipline to complex services spend, you'll deliver measurable value while supporting speed, flexibility, and strong business outcomes.

What You'll Do
  • Lead sourcing initiatives across assigned categories, including media and advertising, agencies, creative and production, sponsorships, talent and influencer services, market research, consulting, contingent labor, workplace, travel, professional services, customer experience, and business operations.
  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand demand, challenge requirements, and develop sourcing strategies aligned with growth priorities, operating plans, and functional roadmaps.
  • Lead competitive sourcing events, including RFx development, supplier communications, proposal analysis, commercial evaluation, and supplier selection.
  • Develop business cases and negotiate agency, consulting, outsourced-services, contingent-labor, and other statement-of-work-based agreements.
  • Develop commercial structures with clear scopes, rate cards, fees, incentives, deliverables, usage rights, service levels, and performance measures.
  • Conduct spend, rate, fee, supplier, benchmark, demand, and market analyses to identify sourcing, consolidation, and optimization opportunities.
  • Manage supplier relationships, ensuring partners meet expectations for cost, service quality, delivery, performance, flexibility, and innovation.
  • Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Compliance, Privacy, Information Security, and business stakeholders to address contractual, regulatory, reputational, and third-party risks.


What You'll Bring

  • A Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or a related field, with at least 6 years of experience in strategic sourcing, technology procurement, category management, vendor management, or a related commercial function.
  • Proven experience leading technology sourcing initiatives, supplier negotiations, competitive sourcing events, and contract discussions across categories including software as a service (SaaS), cloud services, enterprise licensing, data, artificial intelligence, hardware, telecommunications, and professional services.
  • Strong analytical and financial acumen, with experience evaluating pricing, benchmarking, utilization, total cost of ownership, and business cases to support sourcing decisions.
  • The ability to translate technology roadmaps and business requirements into practical sourcing strategies while building strong partnerships across Technology, Finance, Legal, and supplier stakeholders.
  • Experience leveraging analytics, artificial intelligence, automation, or procurement technologies to improve sourcing outcomes, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

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We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is 105,800.00 USD - 132,300.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable. Our ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The compensation information displayed on each job posting reflects the range for new hire pay rates for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process.

About DraftKings

DraftKings is an American daily fantasy sports contest and sports betting operator. The company allows users to enter daily and weekly fantasy sports–related contests and win money based on individual player performances in five major American sports, Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer, NASCAR auto racing, Canadian Football League, the XFL, mixed martial arts and Tennis. In August 2018, DraftKings launched DraftKings Sportsbook in New Jersey becoming the first legal mobile sports betting operator in the state. Since launching in New Jersey, DraftKings has opened mobile sports betting operations in Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and opened in New Hampshire December 30, 2019 after reaching contract with the New Hampshire Lottery. Retail sports betting is available in Iowa, Mississippi and New York. DraftKings Sportsbook mobile and retail sports betting products allow bettors in each state engage in betting for most major U.S. and international sports. As of April 2016, the majority of U.S. states consider fantasy sports a game of skill and not gambling. In November 2016, FanDuel and DraftKings, the two largest companies in the daily fantasy sports industry, reached an agreement to merge. However the merger was terminated in July 2017 due to it being blocked by the Federal Trade Commission as the combined company would have controlled a 90 percent of the market for daily fantasy sports. As of July 2017, DraftKings had eight million users.
Learn more about DraftKings
Size
3,400 employees
Market Cap
$4.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$577.9 million
Revenue
$292.3 million
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