Strong Verbal and written English skills are required. Occasional travel to client sites is required.
Your role and responsibilities
- Manage exceptions to established category strategy
- Support one-off sourcing projects based on client requirements
- Provide outsourcing category support as assigned by the Project Manager
- Take category guidance from the Category Manager, contribute to strategy creation
- Execute competitive bid events, benchmarking projects, RFPs
- Communicate and negotiate with clients and suppliers through all levels of organization
- Analyze changing client/market conditions
- Educate and advise clients and suppliers on strategies
- Interface with strategic sourcing team to implement strategic contracts at the tactical level
- Support client specific category strategy – redirect tactical spend through strategic contracts/channels as appropriate
- Perform periodic analysis within managed commodity scope to identify savings, define efficiency opportunities and tactical initiatives that should be undertaken
- Promote process efficiencies through focus on automated channels where applicable
- Identify appropriate potential suppliers to fit client’s business objectives
- Negotiate and contract with exception suppliers driving additional savings and value
- Communicate supplier recommendations to clients based on objective criteria and fit for client business
- Track and report supplier performance and resolve any supplier performance issues in conjunction with the Category Manager
- Identify any exception opportunities to the Category Managers and make recommendations on strategic approaches that might be taken
- Interact with parallel organizations in other geos to assure consistent global approach
- Support periodic key stakeholder meetings with client to review commodity strategy and activities
- Optimize supply base opportunities across managed commodities
- Act in compliance with all relevant IBM business conduct guidelines and client driven procurement processes
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent post-secondary experience
- At least 2-5 years of sourcing related experience in indirect procurement categories in IT category
- Fluent English language skills
- Strong decision-making skills and demonstrated negotiation expertise
- Supplier relationship management expertise and client facing skills
- Proactive character and team player attitude
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously, with limited guidance
Preferred technical and professional experience
IT skills: Ariba, SAP, Oracle, MS Office, Outlook, Excel, PPT
