Highlights
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 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.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | New York, NY |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $59–$61.40 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Position: IT Sourcing & Contracts Sr. Manager / Director
Location: New York,NY 10041
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Position: IT Sourcing & Contracts Sr. Manager / Director
Location: New York,NY 10041
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
- 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 client s 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
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Similar Job Searches
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