About the role
Title: IT Sourcing and Contract Manager
Location: Hybrid at 55 Water St, New York, NY 10041
Duration: 06 Months
Payrate: $59.28/hr on W2
Job Description Summary:
This IT Sourcing Lead role will be partnering in the development and execution of sourcing strategies for information technology services and products. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify sourcing needs, conducting market analysis, and negotiating contracts with suppliers to ensure optimal pricing and service levels. The IT Sourcing Lead will also manage supplier relationships, monitor performance, and ensure compliance with organizational policies and procedures. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, a deep understanding of the IT market, and the ability to drive significant cost savings while maintaining quality and innovation in sourcing solutions.
About the Role:
This highly visible IT Sourcing Director role offers the opportunity to, in partnership with an experienced group of IT procurement
professionals, shape and directly influence most critical IT investment considerations through the development of robust, supporting category & sourcing strategies. This role involves collaborating with our CTO, CISO, CPO, Controller & their respective leadership teams to identify technical & business requirements, conducting market analyses, managing sourcing events, and negotiating contracts with new and incumbent suppliers to ensure best-in-class qualitative & quantitative outcomes are cross-functionally delivered. The IT Sourcing Director will also manage supplier relationships, monitor performance, drive continuous improvement, and ensure compliance with organizational policies and procedures. The ideal candidate will have executive presence, strong analytical skills, deep domain expertise spanning the IT product & managed services marketplace, and the ability to independently deliver significant cost savings while maintaining a balance of quality & innovation within the outcomes delivered.
Responsibilities and Impact:
• Create, refresh, and implement new or existing category strategies for all assigned sub-categories
Lead high profile negotiations with large enterprise supplier partners, delivering maximum commercial benefit whilst ensuring
business needs are met
• Build and maintain relationships with strategic vendors and internal stakeholders.
Manage senior level stakeholder and appropriately challenge thinking, strategy or decisions by bringing strong commercial
knowledge and market insights to bear
• Establish performance based professional service agreements spanning the IT managed service, Cloud, SaaS software,
network, compute, data & analytics, and enterprise architecture capability spaces
• Translate business strategies into effective category & sourcing strategies.
• Achieve profit margin improvements through proactive sourcing approaches.
• Manage key supplier relationships and ensure performance, continuous improvement, and contract compliance.
• Develop and maintain tools and procedures for contract management.
• Facilitate resolution of contractual issues to minimize service disruptions.
Basic Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in the field of Business, Finance, Technology, Mathematics, or Supply Chain Management preferred, but not required
• 5 -10+ years of technology procurement work experience
• Proven contract and supplier management experience with global, offshore Managed Services Providers
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and prioritize in a dynamic work environment
• Outstanding presentation and interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact effectively with senior management
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