Senior Procurement Manager, IT

Responsibilities

• Have a bias for action and are both deadline and results driven.
• Demonstrate proficiency in creating spreadsheets for complex SW proposal comparison, create business cases including ROI analysis, and develop executive level presentations.
• Ensure critical software provider contracts are sourced, negotiated and implemented at the lowest total cost to CLEAResult.
• Manage the strategic supplier software renewal cycle using a 12 month time fence for planning, quoting, negotiating, contract creation and implementation.
• Partner with IT in the establishment of a Software Steering Committee to vet new suppliers and standardize enterprise usage of IT's preferred vendors.
• Partner with key stakeholders in ensuring supplier performance standards are met.
• Incorporate internally agreed upon KPIs and SLAs into supplier contracts.
• Analyze business requirements by partnering with key stakeholders across the organization to develop solutions for IT needs.
• Partner with IT to create preferred vendors per software category.
• Create Short and Long Term Commodity strategy.
• Mentoring Procurement team members in areas of RFx creation, contract review, negotiations, and Procurement Best Practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.
• 5-10 years of experience working in IT operations.
• Negotiation experience with large, complex renewals with SW providers such as Microsoft, Salesforce, Workday.
• Ability to work cross functionally to create and implement standard processes and policies.
• Flexibility to navigate current state company operating procedures and collaboratively propose, plan and execute future state.
• Project management experience desired.
• Ability to drive consensus.
• Excellent working knowledge of computer systems, security, network and systems administration, databases and data storage systems, and phone systems.
• Strong critical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of levers available to deliver best possible price for new software.
• Firm grasp on IT infrastructure and operations best practices.