Senior Consultant Technical Procurement Analyst

About Us:

NYSTEC is a nonprofit technology consulting company advising agencies organizations institutions and businesses since 1996. Were independent and vendor-neutral so we have our clients best interests at heart. At NYSTEC we know that we succeed when individuals and teams flourish personally and professionally so our benefits and perks support that mindset.

About the Role:

As a Senior Consultant Technical Procurement Analyst in NYSTECs Cybersecurity Data Privacy practice area you will provide strategic and technical expertise to help organizations plan evaluate procure and implement complex technology solutions. You will collaborate with business technical procurement legal cybersecurity and executive stakeholders to translate needs into clear requirements develop procurement materials conduct market and technology research evaluate vendor solutions and identify technical security integration scalability and vendor risks.

In your day-to-day role as a technical procurement analyst you will serve as an independent technical advisor helping ensure that procurement decisions are objective defensible standards-based cost-conscious and aligned with each organizations current-state and target-state architectures technology roadmap and future operational needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a procurement strategy that may include scoring technical and financial proposals.
• Create procurement packets for vendors.
• Assist with creating request for proposals (RFP) response evaluation criteria and recommending revisions.
• Assist with creating contractor tasks and deliverables evaluation criteria and scoring methodologies.
• Provide expert technical guidance on structuring enterprise agreements and share best practices with internal departments.
• Collaborate and partner to execute enterprise agreements across the entire procurement cycle from requisition to contract execution.
• Provide support for negotiating contract terms and conditions licensing models service level agreements (SLAs) and pricing to achieve the best value for the enterprise.
• Collaborate with the legal department to confirm that contract terms comply with client standards regulatory requirements and cybersecurity policies for on-premises hybrid and cloud-based solutions.
• Analyze enterprise vendor agreement approaches to identify opportunities for cost savings and process improvements.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key technology vendors.
• Monitor and track vendor performance and compliance with contractual obligations.
• Assist with managing contract renewals amendments and terminations.
• Work closely with the clients enterprise technical teams to understand stakeholder requirements and align procurement strategies with the clients technology roadmap.
• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies related to technology procurement approaches.
• Maintain plans of action and milestones (POA&Ms) as needed to help remediate issues and gaps.

About You:

Required Qualifications

• Advanced experience leading and overseeing complex large-scale enterprise procurement processes including the analysis design development integration and optimization of large enterprise contracts.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing complex procurement processes involving technology providers and vendors.
• Proven ability to lead teams influence change manage stakeholder relationships and respond effectively to evolving project needs.
• Professional written verbal interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to ensure that project tasks and deliverables are completed in accordance with the approved proposal.

Preferred/Desired Qualifications

• Experience with complex technical procurement processes and approaches.

Education and Experience

• A bachelors degree and three to five years of complex large-scale enterprise procurement experience.
• An equivalent combination of advanced education training and experience will be considered.

The target base salary for this position is $84497 to $109846 per year. When determining compensation we analyze and carefully consider several factors including skill set experience location and job-related qualifications.

It is NYSTECs policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all individuals regardless of actual or perceived race color creed religion sex or gender (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status) age national origin ancestry citizenship status physical or mental disability protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law genetic information military service and veteran status sexual orientation marital status or any other characteristic protected by local state or federal laws and ordinances. NYSTEC is strongly committed to this policy and believes in the concept and spirit of the law.

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Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC