Overview
Hybridon-site - 3 days a week
$165,000 - $180,000
Full Time
No Travel Required
Skills
strategic sourcing process
strategic sourcing
Procurement
Oracle
sourcing strategies
AWS or Oracle or Microsoft
ADP
Financial Services
Job Details
Client offers: Base, Bonus, Stock Options, excellent health & wellness benefits + More
Responsibilities:
- Lead complex, enterprise-wide sourcing initiatives, and contract negotiations, including but not limited to AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft, Oracle, and ADP.
- Deliver cost-saving and avoidance targets by identifying new opportunities like enterprise discount programs, long-term contracts, commit to consume models, etc.
- Collaborate globally with colleagues in technology, finance, and operations roles.
- Conduct market research and maintain a working knowledge of current business trends, including industry changes, cost drivers, global pricing, market conditions and economic indicators to identify new and/or alternate sources of supply, as needed.
- Conduct ongoing benchmark reviews and perform complex financial analyses, projections, and evaluations of supplier proposals.
- Act as a liaison between internal stakeholders and vendors to ensure compliance with sourcing and contracting policies and procedures.
- Manage specific supplier relationships and ensure the ongoing management of performance, quality, cost, contractual commitments, etc.
- Participate in regular supplier business reviews that address supplier performance, technology roadmaps, business growth strategies, and supply market changes.
- Prepare and share summary/recommendations with senior management regarding sourcing and contracting progress and actions to close.
- Procurement approver of new supplier registrations and requests for purchases, etc.
- Coach and mentor the junior staff on the team and be responsible for the performance and development of direct reports.
- Engage and contribute to policy, processes, workflow, system design and configuration-related topics.
Required:
- 7+ years of professional experience in IT Software sourcing & procurement
- Ability to effectively manage large, complex, strategic projects with aggressive milestones, significant risk components and multi-million annual value
- Must have financial services experience.
- Must be hands on, experience on how vendors work.
- Must have good experience working with at least two of these; AWS, Google Cloud Platform, MS, Oracle, or ADP
- Experience and success using a structured strategic sourcing process.
- Highly effective negotiator with the ability to influence executives both internally and externally
- Strong organizational awareness and ability to plan and make decisions using sound judgment
- Excellent written and verbal communications directed at internal and external parties as well as towards the development of RFx's, contract documents and executive presentations
- Proactive and collaborative approach delivering superior internal client engagement
- Strong analysis and problem-solving capabilities (i.e., analyze spending data and translate it into actionable sourcing strategies).
- Bachelor's degree required with a degree in Finance, Business Administration or Supply Chain Management preferred.