Effective Procurement Manager Wanted

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Procurement Manager to join our team. As a key member of the procurement department, you will be responsible for managing the entire commercial and contractual aspects within the IT spend category.

Your primary focus will be on developing and maintaining successful relationships with suppliers, peers, and internal business partners. You will lead and execute end-to-end strategic/tactical projects, apply proper sourcing approach, and draft detailed statements of work covering performance measures, SLAs, acceptance criteria, commercials, risk/reward provisions, etc.

You will manage senior stakeholders and establish relationships, advise internal business partners on end-to-end procurement process, policies, templates, RACI, deal risks, and possible risk mitigation steps as part of the procurement process or contracting. You will also ensure full Procure-to-Contract compliance with all applicable sourcing processes, policies, etc.

The ideal candidate will have 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, and experience or good understanding of electronic procurement/sourcing tools.

Please note that we value candidates who can extract detailed procurement requirements from internal business stakeholders and translate business requirements into contract language. We are looking for someone who can proactively identify material, unmitigated business or contract risks on a particular deal, articulate effectively to stakeholders, and find appropriate solutions.

Job Requirements:

• Manage end-to-end commercial and procurement aspects within all IT categories like Hardware, Software, Outsourcing Services, Cloud and SAAS.
• Ensure proper spend categorization.
• Lead and execute end-to-end strategic/tactical projects, apply proper sourcing approach (single/sole sourcing/ competitive bidding) depending on scope & business requirements, draft detailed statement of work (SOW) covering performance measures-KPIs/metrics, SLAs, acceptance criteria, commercials, risk/reward provisions etc.
• Manage senior stakeholders and establish relationships.
• Advise 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.
• Ensure full Procure-to-Contract compliance with all applicable sourcing processes, policies, etc.
• Independently execute RFP/RHQ processes for assigned categories including Contract negotiation, Vendor Selection, Contract Awarding.
• Define and implement plans in line with category strategy, decision trees, play book. Leverage appropriate procurement/sourcing tools.
• Celebrate Procurement Best Practices by consolidating supplier base and pursuing, where relevant, alternative sources ensuring uninterrupted supply of services, delivered in a cost-effective and quality manner.
• Proactive Continuous Improvement by 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.
• Maintain accurate and continuous collection and reporting of projects managed, contracts concluded and their associated expenditure and financial impacts.

Bonus Skills:

• Auditing Proficiency and Managing high-level conversations.
• End-to-End Source-to-Pay Process Management.
• Outstanding Negotiation and Influencing Skills.
• Information Technology-Savvy with Microsoft Office and Google Suite.
• Compliance-Oriented Culture Driven Management.

If you think you have what it takes, send us your resume with relevant details.