Senior Manager or Director, Strategic Procurement
Oakline Properties
| Company | Oakline Properties |
| Category | Procurement |
| Location | Chicago |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Director |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 23 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 11 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
Oakline Properties acquires and grows leading property management businesses across the U.S. and Canada, partnering with founders to preserve what makes their teams special while building something bigger together. Focused on people, operational excellence, and long-term stewardship, Oakline provides a lasting home where great businesses and careers continue to thrive. Oakline's values are:
Unwavering Stewardship : We believe honoring the legacy of founders, residents, and our teammates is a privilege. We strive to do the right thing — especially when it's hard — and act like owners every step of the way.
Excellence in Action : We hold ourselves to the highest standards — not just to win, but to grow. We show up prepared, invest in our people, and raise the bar every day so that everyone has the chance to get better, go further, and build a career they're proud of.
Built for Belonging : We're proud of the culture we've built — one that's caring, connected, and genuinely fun to be part of. We support each other, celebrate together, and create space to grow. It's a place where people feel valued, challenged, and excited to build a meaningful, long-term career.
Empowered and Accountable : We trust each other to lead and deliver. We operate with speed, teamwork, and ownership to get the job done. Honesty, clarity, and respect are core to how we operate.
Play to Win : We're building a best-in-class platform — and we're here to compete. We act with urgency, celebrate the journey, and take pride in what we're building together.
Oakline is backed by Alpine Investors, an investment firm committed to building enduring businesses by investing in and developing exceptional people.
Role Overview & Key Responsibilities
Oakline is hiring a Senior Manager or Director, Strategic Procurement to lead procurement as a platform-wide value-creation function. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role reporting to the VP of Integration, with direct impact on operating performance across every Oakline partner organization. The person in this seat owns the design and execution of Oakline's sourcing strategy: the vendor programs, category frameworks, governance, and procurement infrastructure that convert scale into measurable, durable savings.
Procurement at Oakline is a core value driver, not a back-office function. Vendor costs spanning maintenance and facilities, make-ready and unit turns, MRO supply, landscaping, waste, utilities, insurance and employee benefits, and enterprise technology flow directly through to asset-level NOI and EBITDA across the portfolio.
The role operates at two levels. At the platform level, it sets the standards, tools, and governance that define how Oakline sources and manages vendors, including the vendor taxonomy, RFx process, bid analysis, supplier scorecards, and savings-tracking methodology. At the partner level, it engages directly with property-management operators across the portfolio to drive adoption, close compliance gaps, and turn preferred-vendor agreements into realized savings. Because Oakline operates a decentralized set of partner companies, this role succeeds through influence and credibility rather than positional authority.
Reporting into Integration, the leader treats procurement as a value creation lever: each newly acquired partner represents a fresh surface of spend, contracts, and vendor relationships to be assessed, onboarded, and brought under enterprise standards on a predictable timeline. Day to day, the leader owns category management end-to-end, running sourcing initiatives across priority categories from supplier selection through contract negotiation and ongoing performance management, and building category-level spend visibility and cost-reduction roadmaps. They stand up the preferred-vendor program category by categor