Strategic Procurement Expert

We are seeking an experienced Procurement Specialist to manage the commercial and contractual aspects of our IT spend category.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining successful relationships with suppliers, peers, and internal business partners.

The key responsibilities include:

• Managing end-to-end commercial and procurement aspects within all IT categories such as 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, drafting detailed statement of work (SOW) covering performance measures- KPIs/ metrics, SLAs, acceptance criteria, commercials, risk/reward provisions etc.
• 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. Articulating pros and cons of, and requirements for various commercial & engagement model options (e.g. managed capacity, managed outcome, managed services, gain-share etc.) for a particular deal.
• 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, play book. 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. Answering contract commercial / rate card / legal / business term inquiries on existing contracts.
• Establishing regular communications with the key internal business partners, to ensure agreement and adoption of category strategies, on-going review of activities undertaken and maintenance of strong client service. Leading proactive Contract Renewal/ Expiry reviews, and re-sourcing or amending per internal strategy.
• Accurately and continuously collecting and reporting of projects managed, contracts concluded and their associated expenditure and financial impacts.

To be considered for this role, you will need:

• 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 analyse a category cost structure.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills, at same and higher level of organisation.
• Experience or good understanding of electronic procurement/ sourcing tools (Ariba, Ivalua, PeopleSoft, etc.).
• 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 organisation and to create a favourable representation of the organisation department internally and to external parties.
• Collaborative style, including experience navigating through matrix organisational responsibilities, organisational 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 organisational 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 (verbal & written, incl. contracting) required.
• Engineering Graduate.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and contribute to our success. We offer:

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• A dynamic and supportive work environment.
• The chance to work on challenging projects and make a real impact.

If you are a motivated and experienced professional looking for a new challenge, please submit your application, including your CV and cover letter, to us.

We look forward to hearing from you