16 May
IT Procurement Manager
Vacancy expired!
- Business Group: Procurement
- Position Reports to: Director, Indirect Procurement
- Partner with Procurement Leadership to create and execute a procurement and category plan that aligns to client's goals, policies and financial expectations; Perform analysis of category spend to track and manage savings against category plan and goals.
- Partner with IT Leadership to advise on all matters related to the sourcing of IT goods and services; coordinate the execution of the agreed strategy, and manage key supplier relationships.
- Identify and lead sourcing opportunities to obtain optimal value for the client, including estimating the cost savings benefits for sourcing opportunities and evaluating Strategic Sourcing performance metrics (KPIs)
- Lead RFX efforts and targeted negotiations for variety of IT procurement efforts, with a focus on Enterprise Software and Professional Services.
- Proactively monitor market intelligence trends that impact category and adapting strategy to mitigate risk
- Proactively develop and maintain supplier relationships in a way that delivers business results, tracks performance and ensures accountability (performance management) while ensuring compliance with all requirements, internal controls and regulations; Develop and execute a supplier management program.
- Partner with Procurement and IT to build and then drive the adoption of P2P processes for IT purchasing.
- Work with IT and Shared Services to develop process and compliance to the Purchase-to-Pay strategy for IT.
- Identify and drive process improvements in the IT sourcing and supplier management pillars as well as end-to-end Purchase-to-Pay lifecycle.
- Collaborate with FP&A and IT during corporate IT budgeting process. Lead procurement pipelining and goal-setting process for future IT initiatives. Track, reconcile costs and savings throughout the year.
- Partner with legal organization on review and redlining of various contract types such as MSAs, SOWs, Consulting Agreements, Order Forms.
- Partner with Information Security and Compliance teams on assessing risk of vendors, other third parties.
- Support and Execute business service programs such as Amazon, Office Depot, etc.
- Relevant business/technical degree (MBA Preferred)
- 5 plus years of relevant experience with at least three of those years in an IT-focused Procurement/Strategic Sourcing role or in a similar capacity with the ability to negotiate and purchase related services. Strong preference given to those with experience in negotiating enterprise software agreements.
- Knowledge of procurement processes/methods, as well as relevant Information Technology (IT) systems
- Experience using Power BI is a plus.
- Strong project management skills.
- Good presentation skills to achieve (business) acceptance of procurement practices and procedures, metrics, budgeting/forecasting routines and changes thereto
Vacancy expired!