IT Sourcing & Contracts Sr. Manager / Director

Overview:




TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.







Position: IT Sourcing & Contracts Sr. Manager / Director
Location: New York,NY 10041
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

• This IT Sourcing Lead role will be partnering in the development and execution of sourcing strategies for information technology services and products.
• This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify sourcing needs, conducting market analysis, and negotiating contracts with suppliers to ensure optimal pricing and service levels.
• The IT Sourcing Lead will also manage supplier relationships, monitor performance, and ensure compliance with organizational policies and procedures.
• The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, a deep understanding of the IT market, and the ability to drive significant cost savings while maintaining quality and innovation in sourcing solutions.

About the Role:

• This highly visible IT Sourcing Director role offers the opportunity to, in partnership with an experienced group of IT procurement professionals, shape and directly influence client s most critical IT investment considerations through the development of robust, supporting category & sourcing strategies.
• This role involves collaborating with our CTO, CISO, CPO, Controller & their respective leadership teams to identify technical & business requirements, conducting market analyses, managing sourcing events, and negotiating contracts with new and incumbent suppliers to ensure best-in-class qualitative & quantitative outcomes are cross-functionally delivered.
• The IT Sourcing Director will also manage supplier relationships, monitor performance, drive continuous improvement, and ensure compliance with organizational policies and procedures.
• The ideal candidate will have executive presence, strong analytical skills, deep domain expertise spanning the IT product & managed services marketplace, and the ability to independently deliver significant cost savings while maintaining a balance of quality & innovation within the outcomes delivered.

Responsibilities and Impact:

• Create, refresh, and implement new or existing category strategies for all assigned sub-categories Lead high profile negotiations with large enterprise supplier partners, delivering maximum commercial benefit whilst ensuring business needs are met.
• Build and maintain relationships with strategic vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Manage senior level stakeholder and appropriately challenge thinking, strategy or decisions by bringing strong commercial knowledge and market insights to bear.
• Establish performance based professional service agreements spanning the IT managed service, Cloud, SaaS software, network, compute, data & analytics, and enterprise architecture capability spaces.
• Translate business strategies into effective category & sourcing strategies.
• Achieve profit margin improvements through proactive sourcing approaches.
• Manage key supplier relationships and ensure performance, continuous improvement, and contract compliance.
• Develop and maintain tools and procedures for contract management.
• Facilitate resolution of contractual issues to minimize service disruptions.

Basic Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in the field of Business, Finance, Technology, Mathematics, or Supply Chain Management preferred, but not required
• 5 -10+ years of technology procurement work experience
• Proven contract and supplier management experience with global, offshore Managed Services Providers
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and prioritize in a dynamic work environment
• Outstanding presentation and interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact effectively with senior management

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.