Procurement Specialist

Overview

The Verint Global Procurement Team is seeking a Procurement Specialist to join the team at this exciting time. You will be responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and contract management for SW, SAAS, Cloud & Hosting IT sub-categories. This role involves working with different departments to determine and execute purchase approaches, purchase requirements, candidate suppliers, and supplier selection. You will also ensure compliance with the company's Procurement policies and procedures.

Principal Duties and Essential Responsibilities

• Assists in contractual and commercial negotiations with new and existing SW, SaaS, and Service provider vendors.
• Ensure proper purchasing involvement in all major company vendor engagements and execute Vendor management practice with strategic vendors of the organization.
• Promote savings and other value-add through proactive negotiations of new agreements and renewals and by Leading benchmarking activity to perform market comparison of supplier rates and cost models.
• Tasked with executing the procurement strategies for the organization.
• Actively participates in the establishment, communication and implementation of business goals and procurement improvements.
• Establishes Global cooperation and proper alignment with IT, Finance, Legal, Services and Operations.
• Ensure all procurement activities are following the Global Procurement policy and procedures.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
• A minimum of 3 years of procurement experience in sourcing SW, SaaS & IaaS, including a strong knowledge of software license and SaaS terms.
• Highly organized individual with excellent time management skills; highly flexible individual who can handle multiple tasks and activities, intense workload with short timeframes and unplanned requests.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional, complex environment.
• Limited domestic travel to attend business meetings.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience managing software development and service provider vendors and expenses.
• Professional Procurement qualification is desirable.
• Familiarity and/or interest in emerging technology focusing on related third-party cloud services and cloud management tools, ability to gain understanding of industry to make educated recommendations about pricing, vendor selection, competition, market compression, optimization, etc.
• Prior experience with a leading technology company.

About The Team

Verint Systems Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination, retaliation, and sexual and any other form of harassment. Verint has a zero-tolerance policy against any form of discrimination, retaliation, or harassment including sexual harassment or any other form of harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, and any other classification or characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Verint operates in accordance with all anti-discrimination laws and affords equal opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic or protected class in our hiring, promotion and termination practices.