immediate contract with direct potential for hire
IT supply chain category specialist

Execution

• Advance the organization’s skills that support business agility, speed, and risk management, through automation or the adoption of new technology and leveraging internal and external data sources.
• Execute the best options for solutions, which may include acquisition of IT products, outsourcing or insourcing, or other alternatives such as joint ventures, brokering vendor partnerships or potential IT acquisitions.
• Engage the business to understand business drivers, demand, risk appetite and environmental factors that influence the development and maintenance of the IT sourcing strategy.
• Understand and adopt agile, pragmatic and fast-track principles into IT sourcing best practices.
• Provide proactive, high-value procurement and contract negotiation consultation to the business through thorough understanding of the business needs.
• Manage IT assets and communication with IT vendors related to company mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures.

• Draft, redline,and negotiate favorable terms and conditions in IT-related agreements for Professional Services, software licenses, SaaS/XaaS, data licensing, hardware, telecom, SOWs, Order Forms, etc. with selected contractors and vendors.

  Performance & KPI

• Define, maintain and report on the metrics that will be followed to track the progress of IT contracts and suppliers against objectives.

• Conduct TCOs with IT Finance before, during, and after contract to evaluate the success as scoped in the business case submissions.
• Maintain an inventory of vendor spend by category (software, hardware, telecom, staff augmentation, services, etc.).
• Maintain vendor risk assessments in cooperation with risk, privacy, business continuity and security teams.
• Manage the workflow required to capture and analyze relevant data and information with the ITSM tool.
• Lead the evaluation of optimal sourcing and pricing options (RFx), taking into consideration outsourcing/cloud, hybrid, and insourcing models.
• Superb problem-solving skills in complex vendor and internal customer relationship environments. Seeks to resolve the root cause, not just the specific problem.
• Evaluate IT suppliers for commercial and contractual performance in all stages of the contract life cycle, and report the statistics to ITLT on a quarterly basis.
• Document any non-compliance or contractual breach for IT Suppliers, assist with identifying the pieces in the SOW that are out of compliance or were not delivered for legal action.

Please refer the Job description for details