IT Strategic Sourcing

Job Description:

The role of an IT Sourcing expertise involves providing high-value strategic sourcing solutions to the business, supporting Suppliers/OEM/Service Providers selection, vendor development, technology management, and performance measurement activities. The goal is to ensure best-in-class delivery of external services, software and products in the Telecom, Data, Digital & IT Category, achieving year-on-year productivity improvements, cost savings, and process improvements in close collaboration with business & IT stakeholders

Role & Responsibilities:

• Proactively engaging in sourcing projects, specification definition and demand management with a focus across domains on requirement analysis and category specific objectives.
• Identify new source, assessment, and evaluation & as per strategic sourcing process (RFI, RFP, RFQ and e-auction)
• Collaborate with internal teams (IT/ Tech/ /Engineering / Finance / Legal) and external team (Suppliers/OEM/Service
• Providers) to address commercial and technical challenges to ensure timely delivery / implementation of HW/SW/Contracts/Agreements related to the assigned category.
• Executing the Source-to-Contract (S2C) & Procure-to-Pay (P2P) workflow related to the IT categories with appropriate documentation and compliance, including respective strategies, approaches and methods, preparing and conducting fact-based negotiations.
• Ensure the right balance between business needs and Cost, Solution and Optimization.
• Periodic reporting to IT end user/requester, Project team and SCM leadership on open project status, issues, and corrective actions.
• Responsible for supplier selection, conduct market research and vendor profiling - Supplier empanelment. Co-ordinate periodic vendor reviews and publish vendor performance metrics. Act as a pivotal point of escalation for managing Vendor performance: Identify Service partners issues and Co-ordinate resolution process (Commercial and Qualitative)
• Build and manage effective internal and external relationships within the Sourcing, client team and service partners and wider business.
• Analysing specifications for optimization. Linking specification to customer value, challenging specification confidently. Conveying messages clearly and convincing stakeholders.
• Achieving results by proactively building long-term, sustainable and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape and demonstrating intelligence across business structures and networks.
• Ability to manage time effectively in a high paced dynamic environment and capable to prioritizing workload to meet scheduling demands and timelines
• Be aware of global IT industry trends, OEM market conditions, HW & SW technological advancements and trade regulations related to the service categories.

Qualifications

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Engineering and MBA would be desired.
• Desired Exp: 10 14 yrs- IT Strategic Sourcing (Hardware & Software).