NPAworldwide
We have an immediate opening for a full time Director, Procurement - Information Technology working extensively with our client. As a key member of our Client Services team, you will be responsible for leading and managing varying engagements within our client's Information Technology Spend, in areas such as: IT Services, Software, Telecom, Hardware & Point of Sale. This role will engage with all relevant client stakeholders and sponsors and reports directly to the Managing Director, Indirect Procurement.
Responsibilities:
• Develop cost savings and strategic sourcing projects while ensuring business continuity and high level of supplier performance
• Manage spend, supplier, and market data from client and our Client's resources to effectively analyze both savings opportunity and value chain impacts
• Lead all levels of supplier market RFI / RFP activities, including execution, readouts and business case implications. Meet with potential participants, both incumbents and non-incumbents, answer RFP related questions from vendors, analyze RFP results and support final vendor(s) awards
• Drive annual productivity improvements in each category of spend by developing and ensuring implementation of ideas to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) for spend categories
• Support development of new policies and procedures to drive savings and lead organizational and operational change management within managed categories of spend.
• Leverages our Center of Excellence (COE) category experts through the sourcing process to assess market conditions, spend leverage opportunities, benchmarking data, RFP builds, and related activities
• Support as well as lead sourcing events, including vendor sourcing, vendor and contract negotiations
• Onboard new suppliers
• Bring sourcing efficiency to all activity; define specific roadmaps containing prioritization of sourcing categories as well as expanding e-procurement catalogs
• Lead research and analytics efforts to both validate savings projections and enable more precise supplier negotiations
• Review major contracts for key areas of spend and act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) resource for planning and leading complex negotiations or re-supply modeling. Create procurement playbook as it relates to cyclical spending.
• Consistently monitor and evaluate savings against targets by category, sub-category, and supplier
• Develop PPV (product price variance) trackers to ensure improved price / savings baseline analysis
• Develop and communicate functional supply chain or sourcing strategy to a diverse group of managers and senior level professionals at client. Create alignment with group and articulate broader procurement transformation.
• Support necessary negotiations. Apply both experience and the application of Client's sourcing methodology, ensuring all buying complies with client policies and procedures
• Source suppliers and build a best-in-class supply chain; cultivate and manage relationships with best-in-class suppliers. Fully utilize all strategic levers within sourcing process and find new paths to value • Establish and implement a supplier management structure and process; audit and vet vendors
• Work cross functionally to deliver sourcing and procurement cost savings, risk mitigation projects, and supplier enabled innovation
• Aggressive focus on achieving overall category cost savings.
Responsibilities:
• Develop cost savings and strategic sourcing projects while ensuring business continuity and high level of supplier performance
• Manage spend, supplier, and market data from client and our Client's resources to effectively analyze both savings opportunity and value chain impacts
• Lead all levels of supplier market RFI / RFP activities, including execution, readouts and business case implications. Meet with potential participants, both incumbents and non-incumbents, answer RFP related questions from vendors, analyze RFP results and support final vendor(s) awards
• Drive annual productivity improvements in each category of spend by developing and ensuring implementation of ideas to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) for spend categories
• Support development of new policies and procedures to drive savings and lead organizational and operational change management within managed categories of spend.
• Leverages our Center of Excellence (COE) category experts through the sourcing process to assess market conditions, spend leverage opportunities, benchmarking data, RFP builds, and related activities
• Support as well as lead sourcing events, including vendor sourcing, vendor and contract negotiations
• Onboard new suppliers
• Bring sourcing efficiency to all activity; define specific roadmaps containing prioritization of sourcing categories as well as expanding e-procurement catalogs
• Lead research and analytics efforts to both validate savings projections and enable more precise supplier negotiations
• Review major contracts for key areas of spend and act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) resource for planning and leading complex negotiations or re-supply modeling. Create procurement playbook as it relates to cyclical spending.
• Consistently monitor and evaluate savings against targets by category, sub-category, and supplier
• Develop PPV (product price variance) trackers to ensure improved price / savings baseline analysis
• Develop and communicate functional supply chain or sourcing strategy to a diverse group of managers and senior level professionals at client. Create alignment with group and articulate broader procurement transformation.
• Support necessary negotiations. Apply both experience and the application of Client's sourcing methodology, ensuring all buying complies with client policies and procedures
• Source suppliers and build a best-in-class supply chain; cultivate and manage relationships with best-in-class suppliers. Fully utilize all strategic levers within sourcing process and find new paths to value • Establish and implement a supplier management structure and process; audit and vet vendors
• Work cross functionally to deliver sourcing and procurement cost savings, risk mitigation projects, and supplier enabled innovation
• Aggressive focus on achieving overall category cost savings.