Senior IT Buyer ( k/m/d)
Opis stanowiska
Job Description:
- Performing tenders and conducting negotiations
- Support Category manager in following cases: target achievement and fulfillment of existing reporting requirements, development of demand management plans together with the relevant internal stakeholders, continuous market intelligence / analysis to identify alternative suppliers, new developments and improved solutions, prediction of price developments as basis for improvement measures, identification of cost reduction and optimization levers for the defined sub-categories and active analysis of optimization levers in regards to demand volume and specifications, helps establish group wide transparency and segmentation of the IT spending, development and alignment of global category strategies for the defined sub-categories together with the relevant internal stakeholders, identification of preferred suppliers and engagement governance by sub-category, achievement of savings target as aligned with Procurement Delivery and the respective Category Manager
- Implementation of the category strategy within the defined area of responsibility
- Active management of the main category-internal suppliers as well as their integration into demand and specification management processes, monitoring of supplier performance, gathering of customer feedback
- Project management activity to manage each stage of the contract life-cycle (negotiation, renewal, remediation, termination etc.) by effectively coordinating the engagement of stakeholders form other functions like: Compliance, IT Security and internal client’s representatives both from Business and IT functions
- Conclusion of contracts with main suppliers
Wymagania
Requirements:
- +3 years of work experience with Purchasing in Information Technology
- University level degree or comparable
- Highly desired: Experience with procurement of Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) SW Licenses and Maintenance, HW Products and maintenance, IT Services (Application development and maintenance, infrastructure services, operations, IT consultancy)
- Problem-solving and analytical skillset
- Communication skills and ability to manage a wide array of different stakeholders
- Strong operational focus, ability to drive topics and deliver results
- Ability to present results clearly and to the point
- Ability to identify negotiation levers and execute negotiation strategy
- Fluent English and Polish
- Knowledge of German would be an advantage