Manager, Technology Vendor Governance

IT Enterprise Services Tampa, Florida


 

Title:

Manager, Technology Vendor Governance

Location:

Tampa, FL

Employment Type:

Full-Time

Who we are

Mattamy Homes is the largest family-owned homebuilder in North America, with 45-plus years of history across the United States and Canada. Every year, Mattamy helps more than 8,000 families realize their dream of home ownership. In the U.S., Mattamy is represented in 11 markets – Charlotte, Dallas, Jacksonville, Naples, Orlando, Phoenix, Raleigh, Sarasota, Southeast Florida, Tampa, and Tucson.

What we offer

Mattamy is looking for an experienced professional to establish, operate and continuously improve a disciplined, transparent approach to vendor management and technology spend across the IT organization. The Manager, Technology Vendor Governance is responsible for ensuring vendor relationships deliver measurable value, are cost-effective, align with IT and business priorities.

This role manages the end-to-end vendor management lifecycle, ensuring governance standards are consistently applied and financial and performance data is reliable and actionable. Partnering closely with IT leadership and Finance, the role provides decisionready insights that enable better prioritization, cost optimization, and risk management. This role is accountable for improving transparency, predictability, and ROI of technology spend. Success is defined by strong operational execution, reliable data, improved transparency and consistent governance across IT vendors and financial processes.

What you’ll do

  •  Design, implement, and continuously improve a standardized IT vendor management framework, including onboarding, governance cadence, performance reviews, escalation paths, and renewal decision processes.
  • Establish clear vendor segmentation (e.g., strategic partners, staff augmentation, execution support) and define expectations for each category.
  • Maintain a centralized inventory of IT vendors, including services provided, contract terms, renewal dates, spend, ownership, performance status, and risk indicators.
  • Ensure consistent documentation, accountability, and transparency across all significant vendor relationships.
  • Define and enforce standard criteria and scorecards for vendor evaluation and selection, ensuring decisions consider cost, performance, delivery model, scalability, security/risk, and adoption impact.
  • Ensure vendor selection decisions are data-driven, well-documented, and aligned to strategic and operational outcomes.
  • Define and manage a vendor KPI and scorecard framework that measures performance across multiple dimensions
  • Lead recurring vendor performance reviews with internal stakeholders and vendors, ensuring action plans are defined, tracked, and closed.
  • Develop “P&L-style” views of technology investments that connect spend to outcomes, benefits, and business value.
  • Proactively identify cost optimization opportunities across vendor contracts, licenses, and services, including right-sizing, renegotiation, and elimination of underutilized spend.
  • Highlight risks related to vendor dependency, concentration, or insufficient internal capability.
  • Deliver executive-ready reporting for IT leadership summarizing vendor health, spend trends, key risks, optimization opportunities, and decisions required.
  • Support leadership discussions by providing analysis and recommendations related to vendor renewals and cost optimization.

What you bring

  • College diploma or university degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience (5+ years).
  • Experience managing IT vendors and/or technology financial governance in a complex enterprise environment
  • Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, cost analysis, and capex/opex concepts
  • Proven ability to design and operate governance processes that drive accountability
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into executive-level insights
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Experience working closely with IT delivery teams and Finance partners
  • Proven ability to achieve performance goals and meet deadlines in a dynamic, resultsdriven environment.
  • Must be able to travel within Canada and the United States, as required

 

Bonus points

  • Experience establishing vendor governance or financial management functions from the ground up
  • Exposure to IT portfolio management or technology investment planning
  • Experience in assetintensive or projectbased industries (real estate, construction, infrastructure, financial services)
  • Familiarity with IT financial management or vendor tooling

Be yourself. We want it that way.

At Mattamy Homes, we’re passionate about creating and promoting a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work. Diversity and inclusion are important aspects of the work we do to support our homebuyers, colleagues and communities.

Our competitive compensation and full-time employee benefits package includes:

  • 3 weeks of company paid vacation + 1 week of company paid time off + 1 week of sick time
  • Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance and Short/Long Term Disability
  • Flex Spending, 401K with Company Matching and Tuition Reimbursement
  • Entertainment Discounts, Employee Home Ownership Program and Company-wide Volunteer Program

Mattamy’s mission

To provide the best homeowner experience

Mattamy’s core values

  • Teamwork
  • Commitment
  • Community
  • Sustainability

Recent recognition

  • Best Places to Work in Charlotte for 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2018 & 2017
  • Best Places to Work in Jacksonville for 2023, 2022, 2016 & 2015
  • Best Places to Work in Orlando for 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2016 & 2013
  • Best Places to Work in Phoenix for 2024, 2023, 2022 & 2021
  • Best Places to Work in Raleigh for 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 & 2021
  • Best Places to Work in Southeast, FL for 2025, 2024, 2023
  • Best Places to Work in Tampa Bay for 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 & 2019

A career with Mattamy Homes is a chance to join a team as solid as they come. We’re an internationally recognized, privately owned homebuilder full of ambitious, talented and hardworking team members. Together we’re making dreams come true with homes and communities designed for the way people live today, and that’s a great feeling. Our future is secured through strategic investments in land and communities, in both current and new markets, which offers ongoing learning, growth and opportunity for all of us. Redefining how we build with smarter technology and a deep commitment to sustainability is exciting and rewarding.

Here, you will gain valuable experience through challenging and interesting projects. Recognized as an employer of choice, Mattamy ensures you will enjoy great benefits and an award-winning culture, because we take care of our own. On our team, we all have a role to play in building for the future.

Mattamy Homes is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, citizenship, religion, sex, national origin, disability or with respect to any other status protected under federal, state, and local laws or ordinances. Equal access to programs, services, and employment is available to all persons.

Qualified applicants will be contacted directly by the Talent Acquisition team.