Job Title: Enterprise Sourcing Specialist
Location: Richmond, VA (Hybrid)
Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serve its business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.
We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance.
Client Enterprise Sourcing team within Supply Chain Management is seeking an Enterprise Sourcing Specialist (ESS) to be responsible for the sourcing and execution of Enterprise sourcing and contracts for IT solutions, goods and services.
Job responsibilities
- Assists customers (Commonwealth Executive Branch Agencies and other public bodies) in identifying how to solve IT business problems, and facilitates the process of evaluating, negotiating and selecting solutions that provide the best value to the Commonwealth and aligns with the Virginia Public Procurement Act (VPPA).
- Leads customers and stakeholders in the development of requests for information (RFI) and requests for proposal (RFP) documents,
- Leading teams in evaluating supplier responses and proposals, negotiating complex contracts with suppliers and executing contract awards.
- Serves cross-functional sourcing teams and support the development of IT infrastructure sourcing strategy by conducting proactive market research and data and trend analysis.
- Work with other Enterprise Sourcing team members on a regular basis, including other sourcing professionals as well as financial/data focused groups to enhance automation and continual process improvement.
- Work collaboratively with commercial contract managers, service owners, financial analysts, the Multi Services Integrator and supplier stakeholders to ensure continual improvement of sourcing and market engagement process and effective future sourcing.
Required skills and experience
- 10 years of experience in the following
- Sr Level IT Procurement
- Superior written and oral communication skills and the ability to communicate clearly and professionally with all types of stakeholders
- Experience executing requests for proposals (RFPs).
- Demonstrated Knowledge of contract development
- Ability to analyze and negotiate complex high value contracts
- Ability to interpret procurement law and policies
- Ability to use existing templates and work instructions to complete tasks
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and work with all levels of staff and the public
- Bachelor s degree, preferably in business, information systems, compliance, legal, or related field preferred (or commiserate experience)
- Ability to work with Enterprise Sourcing peers collectively to solve problems and brainstorm solutions that can be uniformly applied (desired)
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