Ideal Candidate Profile: Seeking an IT Sourcing Consultant with strong experience in IT procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier management, and cloud-based solutions. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading sole-source procurement processes, gathering requirements, evaluating proposals, negotiating vendor contracts, and developing risk mitigation strategies. They should be skilled in technical writing, contract development, and stakeholder communication to ensure fair pricing, clear deliverables, and long-term customer value. Knowledge of Virginia public procurement laws and VITA cloud-hosted security requirements is highly preferred.
Responsibilities Include:
Managing a sole-sourced procurement process by working with the client team, VITA cloud solutions and project management office and project management office and with the vendor. This includes ensuring the requirements are understood to negotiate a fair priced contract with clear deliverables.
Required Skills
Deep industry experience (within procurement and supplier management) including cloud solutions.
Experience with contract and vendor negotiation
technical writing and requirements gathering
Preferred Skills
Knowledge of VA public procurement laws
Knowledge of VITA cloud hosted security protocols and requirements.