Job Title: Senior Manager, Live Events Procurement
Location(s): Remote (USA)
About Us
We’ve entered a new chapter at X Games. With new leadership, fresh momentum, and a clear vision, we’re building what’s next for action sports. Backed by MSP Sports Capital and ESPN/Disney, now operating as an independent company, we’re scaling fast—launching our league, expanding our events, pushing content forward, and building a global home for athletes and fans who live this culture.
About the Role
With the recent launch of the X Games League (XGL), we're building a dedicated Live Events Procurement function for the first time, and we're looking for the right person to stand it up. Sitting within our Finance & Accounting Department, and reporting to the VP, Global Controller, you'll own the end-to-end procurement lifecycle for a global slate of live events — from sourcing strategy and vendor negotiation through contract execution, onboarding, and post-event cost review. Each X Games event engages hundreds of operating vendors across venue services, broadcast infrastructure, athlete operations, hospitality, staging, and safety. Today, that spend is managed event-by-event; your job is to turn it into a repeatable, phased, multi-event procurement system that protects margin, reduces risk, and scales as the league grows. This starts as an individual-contributor role, with a clear path to building out a team as the calendar and spend under management grows.
Responsibilities
Build the Function
Design and stand up how procurement runs across XGL events — the category strategies, sourcing calendars, approval workflows, and vendor performance management that don't exist yet.
Design and implement the procurement operating model for XGL: category strategies, sourcing calendars, approval workflows, and vendor performance management
Own and evolve the multi-event procurement phasing calendar, sequencing sourcing milestones against event lead times and identifying resource collision risks across overlapping event cycles
Partner with Business Development/Event Ops to determine procurement's scope under each event's host-site model (promoter, co-promoter, co-producer, owned & operated) and right-size sourcing responsibility accordingly
Partner with Finance to enforce the vendor onboarding SOP, signature authorization matrix, and spend-approval controls (Ramp-based workflow)
Drive Cost Performance
Own the sourcing and negotiation work that keeps event costs in check as the league scales.
Lead competitive sourcing and renegotiation for recurring event vendors, with a mandate to reverse multi-year cost escalation trends
Develop per-event and per-category unit economics with FP&A, and own procurement's contribution to event cost reduction targets
Build a preferred-vendor program that captures multi-event volume leverage across the league calendar
Execute Flawlessly at Events
Be the person on the ground making sure vendor relationships hold up under real event pressure.
Run sourcing, RFP, and negotiation processes for major event categories (venue build, broadcast/production support, staffing, hospitality, transportation, equipment rental)
Manage vendor contracting in partnership with Legal, including insurance, indemnification, and payment-term standards
Ensure a clean handoff of contract terms, deliverables, and payment schedules to the Budget Owner/ELT, who owns vendor relationship management for the life of the contract
Protect the Company
Keep procurement audit-ready and compliant as we operate across borders.
Maintain audit-ready documentation standards across all vendor engagements: contracts, POs, change orders, and payment support
Ensure procurement compliance across US, Canadian, and international (Finland/Japan) vendor jurisdictions
Flag and escalate off-process spend commitments; be a trusted, constructive control point for the business
Qualifications
6+ years of progressive experience in procurement, sourcing, or vendor management, with meaningful time in live events, sports, entertainment production, or large-scale experiential
Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Strong negotiation track record with six- and seven-figure vendor agreements
Fluency in live event production categories: staging, broadcast infrastructure, venue services, temporary staffing, hospitality
Experience with modern spend-management tools (Ramp, Coupa, or similar) and ERP environments
Comfort operating in a fast-moving, lean environment — hands-on, not just strategic
Bonus: international procurement experience, multi-event or touring production background, sports league or federation experience
The base salary range for this role is $115,000 - $130,000. Compensation is determined based on factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, job-related knowledge, and geographic location.