IT Procurement Category Manager
Location: Atlanta, Georgia US
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Job Number: 28907
Workplace Type: On-site
Employment Type: Full Time Associate
Position Title: Category Manager, Procurement
External Description:
- Responsible for developing and executing strategies for the acquisition of technology good and services, including consulting, telephony, hardware, software, SaaS, print and document management
- Lead efforts to improve IT purchasing and invoice processes to drive cost savings while managing internal stakeholder engagement over multiple business operating companies.
- Coordinate with IT leaders during the annual budget process and ensure spending patterns are in alignment with organizational goals.
- Understand supply market and develop sourcing plans
- Conduct recurring meetings with key stakeholders to build relationships, understand needs, identify opportunities and capture cost savings while mitigating risk
- Conduct RFx’s and perform pricing analysis
- Negotiate with suppliers and manage ongoing performance
- Redline contracts with understanding of acceptable and preferred commercial terms and risk tolerance
- Collaborate with Legal, Enterprise Security, and Risk groups during supplier and contract review
- Assist with vendor on-boarding / off-boarding
- Ensure compliance with company policies and control framework
- Identify and implement process improvements while maintaining and improving service levels
- Responsible for a portion of overall cost Savings and Avoidance targets
- Responsible for management of applicable e-catalogs
- Maintain Software Asset Management process and optimize software license portfolio
- Candidates should be competent in Microsoft Office with emphasis on Excel and Word. Experience with Procure to Pay software suites is preferred.
- Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Economics, Operations, Business Management or related field, required
- Minimum 6-8 years of relevant category experience, required
- Certified Purchasing Professional (CPP), preferred
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