IT Procurement Buyer

*This will be a potential temp to hire for IT Procurement*

Qualifications:

• Has at least 7 years of Purchasing and Sourcing experience.
• Has at least 5 years IT product and service purchasing and management experience.
• Professional with significant knowledge within own discipline and knowledge of related disciplines, completing specialized and/or moderately complex tasks under moderate supervision. May supervise employees, focused on task performance and delivery of specialized processes.
• Requires conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and developing knowledge of related job disciplines.
• Has developed a detailed understanding of key business drivers through multiple years of experience.
• May supervise or act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Has the ability to understand and influence.
• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team.
• Begins to work independently with minimal to moderate guidance.
• Analyzes potential solutions to problems (with or without vague/unstructured aspects) using experience, judgment and precedents.
• Work requires judgment and consideration of future implications beyond the immediate problem.

Responsibilities:

• Negotiates favorable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with IT suppliers.
• Prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of goods, services and supplies for customer-related business processes.
• Collaborates and supports IT stakeholders.
• Executes category sourcing strategies including development and execution of RFI s and RFP s, documents bid events through correspondence to suppliers
• Develops selection criteria and drives the selection of suppliers in collaboration with a cross-functional teams; conducts supplier negotiations and ongoing supplier management.
• Gains alignment from stakeholders, leads cross-functional, category-based negotiation teams, and implements appropriate supplier risk analysis
• Executes and sustains effective Global Procurement strategies, systems, processes and tools to enable simplification, standardization, leverage and compliance across the Company.
• Collects, analyzes and audits data in support of managing spend, ensuring sourcing process compliance, developing plans for procurement, managing transportation and expediting or troubleshooting delivery of quality materials and services. Provides a comprehensive, sustainable and cost-effective supplier base for the company, while minimizing supply risk.
• Monitors supplier performance to ensure that delivery dates and technical and contractual requirements are met.
• Participates in strategic meetings with suppliers and business leaders to ensure execution of defined strategies.
• Manages day-to-day on-going category supplier relations and seeks out growth or revision opportunities within supply base.
• Acts as the internal point of contact for supplier management and complaint resolution; conducts regular supplier meetings and implements improvement strategies with suppliers.
• Creates, nurtures, and enhances supplier relationships.
• Adheres to company Savings goals and reviewing financial models for commodity type items.
• Ensures spend portfolio for reoccurring managed spend is balanced through coordinated sourcing waves and leveraged with sourcing methodology.
• Drives consolidation of IT spends and seeks out synergies across Business Units
• Champions weekly category review meetings with cross-functional teams to manage category performance.