Technology Strategic Sourcing Manager

Job Overview

Pay Range: $52.18hr - $57.18hr

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.
• Delivering cost savings through daily work and through driving proactive cost savings initiatives as part of the Technology Sourcing team.
• Acting as liaison for Technology Business Unit Stakeholders across Legal, Finance, Security, and Procurement and other departments throughout contract negotiation and relationship management process.
• Implementing knowledge of sourcing, contract negotiation and relationship management best practices and industry trends.
• Identifying areas of opportunity in partner categories e.g., supplier and technology rationalizations.
• Managing business relationships with vendors, focusing on business issues, escalations, and other non-operational matters.
• Preparing and delivering briefing documents, status reporting, and other data/reports on key technology relationships for senior management.
• Building strong internal client relationships and serving as a trusted advisor and partner.
• Maintaining accurate contracting data, vendor records, and transaction information.
• Identifying and assessing technology vendors/products from a strategic perspective, to ensure that vendor/product selection is aligned with organizational objectives and strategies.
• Ensuring compliance with sourcing & procurement policies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of contract drafting and redlining experience.
• 5+ years of project management experience.
• 5+ years of communication and interpersonal skills.

Nice to Have

• Advanced degree JD/MBA a plus.
• Experience using Ariba, CLM tools, SpendHQ, and Agiloft preferred.

Skills

• Exceptional negotiation skills for both internal and external negotiations.
• Ability to coach and develop others.
• Ability to work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Ability to exercise impartial judgment in selecting methods and evaluation criteria for obtaining results or evaluating supplier responses.
• Ability to stay current on market intelligence to assist in negotiation effectiveness.
• Flexibility to adapt to the ever-changing business needs of technology and advertising clients.
• Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Ability to own and drive deals to execution.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships in multi-functional teams.
• Keen analytic, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional written and verbal communications/interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work across global teams and work non-traditional hours, as needed.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree (business/technology) required.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.