Responsibilities:

• Develop enterprise-wide IT category strategies to deliver value by achieving cost savings and improving quality and delivery.
• Partner with Procurement Business Partner and IT department business stakeholders across key technology pillars to understand business objectives, desired product/service specifications and projected demand.
• Ensure the company has a good understanding of the supply market. Work with the Procurement Business Partner and business stakeholders to jointly create innovative win-win customer and supplier strategies.
• Provide IT category subject matter expertise to business stakeholders and cross-functionally.
• Oversee all spend activity for assigned category areas and determine proper action plan for all purchases in alignment with IT category strategy.
• Consult with cross functional teams to execute strategic sourcing projects for assigned category.
• Proactively identify improvement opportunities for assigned category and recommend key actions to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Procurement Business Partners, Supplier Inclusion and Sourcing Operations to create standard and repeatable process to integrate business diversity and responsible procurement into overall value proposition.
• Develop fact-based negotiation strategies with stakeholders within assigned categories.
• Partner with Procurement Program Managers to operationalize enterprise Procurement programs.
• Execute initiatives to classify suppliers and manage supplier relationships according to defined supplier relationship management standards.
• Seek, develop, and establish business relationships with key suppliers. Meet regularly with IT stakeholders to ensure outstanding customer satisfaction and continuous improvement against category targets are met.
• Partner with internal senior leaders, suppliers and cross functional leads to define clear supplier objectives which meet the company’s business needs, including quality, reliability, innovation, and cost.
• Combine all spend information into yearly plans and long-term forecasts for costs, savings targets, value beyond savings and planned projects
• Drive use of procurement best practices and standardization of processes while minimizing supply risk.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, results orientation and psychological safety to optimize team performance.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years professional work experience plus a BS/BA or 8+ years professional work experience plus a MA/MS or MBA in a corporate environment, preferably in the areas of DEI, procurement and supplier management, or corporate strategy.
• Experience supporting Global Procurement transformation projects working directly with business partners to execute on defined scope, budget and transformation results.
• Proven track record of applying procurement principles, concepts, best practices, and standards along with an in-depth knowledge of industry practices required.
• Ability to develop category and sourcing strategies by identifying opportunity areas, with a proven record of effectively directing and leveraging procurement spend in assigned category areas by leading global cross functional teams.
• Experience managing and maintaining strong supplier relationships.
• Strong leadership presence and negotiation/contract management experience
• Extensive knowledge and experience with procurement/spend systems data and analysis
• Experience working with and leading multiple projects and teams simultaneously across a matrixed organization.

Pay Range: $70 - $80/Hour