IT Procurement Manager

Job Title: IT Procurement Specialist

We are seeking a seasoned procurement professional to manage our IT spend category. The ideal candidate will have 8-12 years of experience in sourcing or procurement, with significant experience in procurement/sourcing and contracting for Cloud Services.

The selected candidate will be responsible for managing commercial and contractual aspects within the IT spend category, developing and maintaining successful relationships with suppliers, peers, and internal business partners. Key responsibilities include:

• Managing end-to-end commercial and procurement aspects within all IT categories like Hardware, Software, Outsourcing Services, Cloud and SAAS.
• Ensuring proper spend categorization.
• Leading and executing end-to-end strategic/tactical projects, applying proper sourcing approach (single/sole sourcing/competitive bidding) depending on scope & business requirements.
• Managing senior stakeholders and establishing relationships.
• Advising internal business partners on end-to-end procurement process, policies, templates, RACI, deal risks, and possible risk mitigation steps as part of procurement process or contracting.
• Ensuring full Procure-to-Contract compliance with all applicable sourcing processes, policies, etc.
• Independently executing RFP/RFQ processes for assigned categories including Contract negotiation, Vendor Selection, Contract Awarding.
• Defining and implementing plans in line with category strategy, decision trees, playbook. Leveraging appropriate procurement/sourcing tools.
• Consolidating supplier base and pursuing, where relevant, alternative sources ensuring uninterrupted supply of services, delivered in a cost-effective and quality manner.
• Conducting periodic market research for assigned category, incl. monitoring of market trends and supply/demand factors, legal dictates to help in the decision-making process to meet the strategic goals of the organization.
• Establishing regular communications with key internal business partners, to ensure agreement and adoption of category strategies, ongoing review of activities undertaken and maintenance of strong client service.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 8 to 12 years of experience in sourcing or procurement.
• Significant experience of procurement/sourcing and contracting for Cloud Services.
• Understanding of how to analyze a category cost structure.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills, at same and higher level of organization.
• Experience or good understanding of electronic procurement/sourcing tools.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end Source/Procure-to-Pay processes and tools.
• Experience working within a very strong compliance and regulatory culture, driving policies and procedures, both internally and externally.
• Strong risk and control culture and an understanding of Supplier Screening programs with the ability to evaluate and mitigate any associated potential business risk.
• Strong presentation skills, including experience using Excel pivot tables and PowerPoint to support analytical techniques and presentation of data.
• Ability to extract detailed procurement requirements from internal business stakeholders, and to translate business requirements into contract language.
• Ability to proactively identify material, unmitigated business or contract risks on a particular deal, to articulate effectively to stakeholders, and to find appropriate solutions.
• Tenacious and resilient approach. Skilled in building relationships; confident, firm, empowering and positive in his/her attitude towards people and of personal stature and reputation to ensure ready acceptance within the company and to create a favorable representation of the company department internally and to external parties.
• Collaborative style, including experience navigating through matrix organizational responsibilities, organizational change, and working across all global regions, global time zones and teams to elicit successful and collaborative approaches and solutions.
• Proactive, hands-on approach and strong organizational skills with capability to manage an increasing book of work over time and the ability to juggle multiple priorities and types of work.
• Excellent English communication skills required.
• Engineering Graduate.