Contract Senior Anayst

Overview

On Site
45 - 50
Contract - W2
Contract - 06 Month(s)
No Travel Required
Unable to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

Procurement
RFP
SAAS

Job Details

Immediate need for a talented Software Procurement Analyst . This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Mclean, VA(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 26-00145

Pay Range: $45 - $50/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Category Strategy & Market Intelligence
  • Develop annual category strategy for SaaS products across enterprise.
  • Understand emerging SaaS trends: AI-enabled offerings,
  • shifting license models, supplier consolidation, major
  • acquisitions, and new regulatory obligations (e.g., data
  • residency, AI governance, etc.).
  • Maintain competitive benchmarks and price trends for major
  • platforms (e.g., per-user license growth, price uplift norms).
  • Sourcing & Negotiation
  • Lead RFPs, renewals, and competitive events for SaaS agreements (typically $1M–
  • $25M).
  • Negotiate with major technology suppliers known for aggressive pricing models.
  • Drive 24-month renewal look-ahead to create leverage, evaluate
  • switching options, and coordinate exit strategy readiness.
  • Develop negotiation positions including licensing optimization,
  • demand management, alternative vendor analysis, and Total Cost of
  • Ownership (TCO).
  • Contracting & Risk Alignment
  • Collaborate with Legal on contract terms including:
  • Data privacy
  • AI use & model training restrictions
  • Security requirements
  • SLAs, credits, uptime
  • Term length aligned to exit strategy readiness (12/24/36+ months)
  • Review and negotiate complex SaaS terms such as:
  • Overages
  • Usage tiers
  • True-ups / True-downs
  • Auto-renew / evergreen risk
  • De-scoping & termination assistance
  • Supplier Relationship Management & Performance
  • Develop supplier scorecards and quarterly business reviews for tier-1 SaaS
  • suppliers.
  • Track delivery, performance, roadmap alignment, price changes, and compliance.
  • Identify emerging risks: supplier lock-in, underutilization, shadow IT, duplicate tools.
  • Governance & Reporting
  • Prepare materials for Executive Leadership governance including
  • renewal dashboards, contract risk heat maps, and business case
  • summaries.
  • Partner with IT stakeholders for forecasting and consumption modeling.
  • Document category playbooks, standard negotiation strategies, and supplier
  • intelligence profiles.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience: 

  • Key skills; Procurement, RFP , SAAS
  • Executive presence --comfortable presenting to senior leadership, risk committees.
    Influencing without authority across IT, Finance, and business divisions.
  • Structured communication—can synthesize complex deals into concise decision
    memos.
  • Negotiation maturity—knows when to escalate, when to walk
    away, and when to leverage competition.
  • High integrity & risk awareness within a financial-services regulatory environment
  • Technical & Procurement Expertise
  • 5–10+ years in technology procurement, with 3+ years focused on SaaS.
  • Experience negotiating with top-tier SaaS providers.
  • Strong understanding of SaaS licensing: per-seat, consumption[1]based, tiered, platform bundles, unlimited agreements, community
  • licenses, sandbox pricing, etc.
  • Proven ability to run sourcing events from intake → strategy → RFP → evaluation →
  • negotiation
  • contracting → renewal governance.
  • Data & Analytics Capability
  • Ability to model SaaS usage, optimize licenses, and scenario-plan renewal options.
  • Skilled in evaluating cost models, utilization reports, and consumption dashboards.
  • Legal/Contract Experience
  • Familiarity with SaaS terms, AI policies, uptime SLAs,
  • indemnities, SOC reports, and cyber requirements.
  • Ability to redline documents and propose alternative terms.


Our client is a leading Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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