Sourcing Senior Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Support and help manage all elements of the strategy, including reducing cost, improving operational performance, mitigating risk, and improving overall financial performance of NTT through its acquisition and management of IT assets.
• Manage the strategy on an ongoing basis, ensuring it is communicated and adhered to across all regions and Operating Companies – including assembling and leading cross-functional teams to drive the IT Supply Chain and Sourcing strategy.
• Partner with stakeholders in the Operating Companies, Accounts, Delivery, Alliances, and Global Procurement (GP) on IT cost savings and performance improvement initiatives.
• Develop working relationships with key internal stakeholders to ensure IT requirements are defined and demand is accurately reflected.
• Partner with NTT Operating Companies to drive improved operational performance, such as supply/demand planning, cycle times, forecasting, maintenance practices, and contractual compliance.

Education And Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience in progressively challenging roles in supply chain management, strategic sourcing, and category management, with most experience within the broad Information Technology space.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in IT cloud sourcing & contracting.
• Experience in sourcing MSFT or AWS or GCP products and services at global level.
• Fair understanding of MSFT or AWS or GCP contracting, product, and services/support services terminologies.
• Hands-on experience managing a category of IT spend and delivery on a global or regional basis, with a track record of effectively driving cost savings and performance improvement.
• Strong analytical skills, self-starting, proactive, self-learning, attention to detail, maintain data & project hygiene.
• Able to assess historical spend and asset usage data from multiple disparate sources, analyze the data, and layout coherent, data-driven roadmaps to achieve cost reductions and/or operational improvements.
• Ability to analyze the current state of practices within NTT Global Sourcing and NTT Operating Companies across all IT sub-categories of spend involving multiple IT vendors and collaborate with stakeholders to forge comprehensive supply chain strategies that increase leverage and drive commercial improvements with IT vendors.
• Able to assess 'best practices' and 'pricing benchmarks' in the industry and compare these across Operating Companies, accounts, BUs, and regions.
• Able to document IT technical requirements and service level requirements where none exist and obtain alignment from stakeholders around these key parameters.
• Able to analyze current IT Agreements and assess alignment with end-customer Agreements. Where misalignments exist, develop and implement strategies that improve alignment.
• Strong ability to work across multiple accounts and delivery organizations globally to build aggregated demand forecasts for common hardware components and incorporate aggregated demand into negotiation strategies to increase buying power.
• Able to analyze various asset acquisition practices and identify opportunities to reduce cost and/or risk by improving these practices where such opportunities exist.
• Partners with NTT account leadership and regional delivery leads to drive such cost reduction initiatives into the accounts.
• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with Leadership within NTT and influence business stakeholders on key strategic initiatives that involve challenging 'Change Management' elements.
• Solid knowledge in financial analysis, able to communicate effectively with Finance organizations, including investment ROI analysis, lease vs. buy modeling, capital planning and justification, asset valuation analysis, make vs. buy modeling, and 'should cost' analysis.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.