Technology Procurement Lead - Associate Director jobs at Ey in Japan, Chiyoda

Your key responsibilities

• Act as a trusted business advisor to regional EY leaders and stakeholders, ensuring SCS initiatives align with business priorities.
• Manage the Technology category in collaboration with senior stakeholders and the Global Procurement team.
• Develop and execute sourcing and negotiation strategies for the Technology category in compliance with Procurement policies, delivering measurable value through cost savings and cost avoidance, spend consolidation, supplier rationalization and contract value realization.
• Mitigate contractual risks by working closely with Legal (GCO), Risk Management, and other SCS team members.
• Lead and manage complex transactions, partnering with senior stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes while ensuring alignment with global processes and standards, incorporating simplification and localization where appropriate.
• Oversee supplier relationships to maximize value for EY, ensuring adherence to EY policies and managing the full contract lifecycle, including proactive negotiations.
• Socialize Procurement policies and processes, ensuring project teams and stakeholders understand the value of the policy and adhere accordingly.
• Maintain market intelligence on key suppliers and subcategories within Technology, leveraging research and industry insights.
• Build and sustain strong relationships with regional leadership and key business stakeholders, providing regular updates on category strategies and progress.
• Manage regional team members, including contractors, to balance workload and foster a high-performing team culture.

Skills and attributes for success

• To qualify for the role, you must have
  
  • 10+ years of procurement experience in Technology and Data Services categories, including leadership in Indirect Procurement.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business or related discipline (advanced degree preferred).
  • Proven track record in high-performance, collaborative environments and global teams.
  • Strong knowledge of Source-to-Pay (S2P) processes, including online Rfx and e-Auctions.
  • Native Japanese and advanced English proficiency, capable of leading discussions independently.
  • Ability to work virtually and autonomously across regional and global teams; strong team player.
  • Excellent organizational skills with ability to manage and prioritize workload independently.
  • Positive attitude with adaptability, and strong appetite for change and continuous learning.
  • Ability to align efforts with key stakeholders, influence senior leaders, and demonstrate a global mindset.
  • Strong negotiation and influencing skills, supporting leadership in driving alignment with senior stakeholders.
  • Capability to drive change by building strong, trusting relationships with senior stakeholders and business partners.
• Ideally, you’ll also have
  
  • CPM (US), CIPS (UK) or similar Procurement certification is welcomed but not essential.
  • Good knowledge of IT suppliers and emerging technologies.
  • Experience working in an IT role as part of delivering technology solutions is a plus.

Requisition Id : 1613476

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Your key responsibilities

Technical Excellence

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior Consultant, you will be a key resource on client engagement.

· Demonstrate technical competence in our capabilities and take a practical/business driven approach to solving complex client challenges

· Be up to date with key technical and functional skills, and industry trends

· Support and lead certain engagement activities from planning through to implementation including identifying and helping manage any potential issues and risks during a client assignment

· Identify and flag any follow-on engagement opportunities

· Support and lead certain engagement activities from planning through to implementation

Skills and attributes for success

· Experience in tax and regulatory support for Alcohol Regulatory matters

Skills and attributes

To qualify for the role you must have
Qualification

· Graduate/Postgraduate in Economics / Engineering / Mathematics / Statistics / MBA

2 – 3 years of post-qualification experience State / Federal Policy Matters

What we look for

People with the ability to work in a collaborative manner to provide services across multiple client departments while following the commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions. We look for people who are agile, curious, mindful and able to sustain postivie energy, while being adaptable and creative in their approach.

What we offer

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Technology compliance, licensing, governance setup, massive data storage and related privacy security, virtual asset management, and resilience of the business as usual require heavy technology risk measures safeguard the crown jewels as well as complying to the requirement of the regulators. As a technology risk specialist, you will guide our clients to manage their technology risks, comply with regulatory requirements and strengthen their cybersecurity postures. At EY, you will belong to an international connected team of specialists helping our clients with their most complex information security needs and contributing toward their business resilience. In simple terms, you know how to use your deep technical experience and apply that to a business where we need to battle risk and agility in the financial sector.

EY consultants are considered by our clients as experts and trusted in what they do. Our technology risk teams focus on providing our consulting services which include:

• Conduct technology compliance review for institutions in the banking, wealth and asset management and insurance sectors licensed under Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area and other regions.
• Lead and manage a team and build client relationship in business development and practice development
• Analyze client IT environment, identify risks and evaluate controls, including cloud security aspects in accordance with regulatory requirements and industry standards and best practice
• Act as enabler with clients that desire to move towards compliance status, especially under controls and requirements from the local and regional Regulators
• Act as a licensing advisor to help clients in financial activity licensing journey from technology risk perspective in cooperation with the other EY teams
• Assess and implement information security management frameworks based on well-known industry standards (e.g. ISO, NIST, COBIT, SANS)
• Assist the clients to build a holistic governance and incident management framework to effectively respond to and recover from cyber incidents
• Assess and advise on managing risk from emerging technologies such as blockchain, virtual assets, artificial intelligence/machine learning, big data, etc.
• Develop and review information security strategy plans in alignment with business requirements using risk-based approach
• Perform information security awareness training and training program development for clients
• Conduct vulnerability scanning, penetration test and cyber-attack simulation to assess and improve the effectiveness of controls in place
• Manage client expectations and program implementation plans attending stakeholders` needs using project management principles
• Keep up to date with the latest security trends and also applicable privacy laws that could have an impact on clients
• Contributing to the development of the existing technology risk team acting as mentor and coach to the junior members of the team and leading by example
• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication
• Contributing to the creation of proposals and go-to-market material

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or masters’ degree preferably in one of the following areas: Information Security, Business Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, and other related majors
• At least 3 years of relevant working experience (Less experience will be considered as Senior grades) with hands-on experience on key components of the above-mentioned areas
• Qualification holder of one or more of the following certifications (not limited to): CISA, CISM, CISSP
• Working towards the following technical certifications (not limited to): CRTP, CRTE, OSCP,GPEN, GXPN, Cloud-related certifications
• Good computer skills - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Chinese processing
• Excellent written and spoken English and Chinese. Fluency in Mandarin is an advantage

Skills and attributes for success

• Experience in managing and supervising teams of professional employees and mentoring team members through development feedback and performance processes
• Experience in project management, preparing and providing high quality reports, and giving presentations to clients
• Logical thinker with strong interpersonal and organizational skills. Able to interact effectively with both management and clients
• Supervising, coaching, developing and leading teams and individual team members.