Manager of Technology Strategic Sourcing

Job Responsibilities

• Gathering requirements from relevant stakeholders.
• Reading, interpreting, understanding, and communicating technology contract terms.
• Partnering with legal to understand legal concepts and challenges, and problem solve to overcome challenges.
• Working with Finance and Business Stakeholders to identify budgetary constraints and develop desired set of commercial terms.
• Negotiating pricing and other commercial terms, as well as Statements of Work, Service Level Agreements, and other technical/operational documents.
• Owning overall responsibility for delivering finalized agreements in accordance with applicable timing requirements and other relevant factors.
• Deliver cost savings through daily work and through driving proactive cost savings initiatives as part of the Technology Sourcing team.
• Act as liaison for Technology Business Unit Stakeholders across Legal, Finance, Security, and Procurement and other departments throughout contract negotiation and relationship management process.
• Implement knowledge of sourcing, contract negotiation and relationship management best practices and industry trends.
• Identify areas of opportunity in partner categories e.g., supplier and technology rationalizations.
• Manage business relationships with vendors, focusing on business issues, escalations, and other non-operational matters.
• Prepare and deliver briefing documents, status reporting, and other data/reports on key technology relationships for senior management.
• Build strong internal client relationships and serve as a trusted advisor and partner.
• Maintain accurate contracting data, vendor records, and transaction information.
• Identify and assess technology vendors/products from a strategic perspective, to ensure that vendor/product selection is aligned with Technology objectives and strategies.
• Ensure compliance with sourcing & procurement policies.

Must Have Skills / Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with contract drafting and redlining.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and projects within a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to summarize contractual issues and communicate to stakeholders to interpret, summarize, and give guidance.
• Experience using Ariba, CLM tools, SpendHQ, and Agiloft preferred.