About The Role

Support the Sourcing team’s partnership with the business customers to deliver on the organizational sourcing strategy to meet financial and operational control objectives.
Manage relationships with suppliers to foster strategic partnerships that enable continuous value-delivery.
Oversee the full lifecycle of the strategic sourcing (including RFx), contracting, and downstream procurement workflow.
Pro-actively manage renewals to drive savings and mitigate business disruptions.
Participate in value driven QBRs for key IT vendors
Leverage spend and contract data to identify savings and efficiency opportunities.
Lead sourcing projects by identifying clear objectives that consider financial, risk, and operational benefits.
Continuously develop subject matter expertise via benchmarking/research, industry/peer collaboration, training, and client feedback
Conduct negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms, pricing, and contracts while ensuring alignment with goals.
Review requests via centralized intake tool and gather requirements from business clients.
Review supplier proposals and facilitate process for final vendor selection with appropriate customers
Conduct negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms, pricing, and contracts while ensuring alignment with goals
Initiate supplier onboarding process and coordinate with suppliers to facilitate onboarding process; manage any required troubleshooting
Coordinate with customers to provide general insight to current request status and expected timeline
Work closely with corresponding Sourcing Directors to ensure comprehensive understanding of category strategy, requirements and targets

Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; increases appropriately

Qualifications

Minimum of 6 years of related experience
Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success

Minimum of 7 years of IT Strategic Sourcing and Category Mgmt. at a global organization, preferably in financial services.
Experience and proven success developing RFXs and negotiating HW, software, telecom/networking, private cloud, public cloud, and IT professional services contracts.
Knowledge of enterprise IT vendors as well as emerging technology providers.
Strong organizational competency with the ability to independently manage competing priorities.
Comfortable with organization change and transformation.