Finance Lead Buyer

We help Procurement and Recruiting departments faced with the challenge of filling multiple IT-related openings for either long-term employment, or short-term projects. They need to find reliable candidates, with the right expertise, quickly and at the right cost to enable their company to remain competitive, and to increase profit and efficiency. Stefanini provides the IT contract resources you need to implement crucial projects, handle short-term assignments, or fulfill long-term placements. Our IT staffing services free you from the challenges of finding, recruiting, training and retaining high-quality professional staff, and allow you to focus on managing your business growth. We provide the ongoing skill development to ensure that professionals placed at your site are trained in leading technologies to support your information technology hardware, software, and network infrastructure. Augment your staff for short or long-term engagements, or for specialized expertise on specific projects. We have more than 25 years of staffing industry knowledge and can provide you with superior candidates to match your technical and professional needs. Job Description Experienced in the development, implementation, and execution of IT hardware/software procurement strategies. Collaborate with Strategy & Sourcing leaders and peers to implement bidding and contracting processes that are consistent across commodities and that result in verifiable savings, increased controllable spend, increased diverse supplier spend, and other supply chain improvements. Drive the bidding process to capitalize on eCommerce opportunities and facilitate effective long-term supplier relationship and contract management. Direct transition of new and renegotiated contracts to the managed services team and routinely exchanges relevant commodity and/or supplier performance information (such Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and related supplier performance metrics) to improve future bid work and supplier compliance with contract terms and conditions. Write and conduct to complex RFx's (Requests for Proposal (RFP), Requests for Quotation (RFQ), and Requests for Information (RFI)) in related commodity areas on a global, cluster, and/or local basis. Manage sourcing projects in accordance with Firm guidelines and compliance with arm's length, transparent, and fair bidding processes. Collaborate with the Procurement Legal team to incorporate Procurement template content into contracts and RFx's and seeks requirements and input from customers. Consult with technical subject matter specialists on the Legal team, Independence Office, and other Finance support teams and helps increase awareness of Procurement practices and policies Demonstrate and apply strong negotiation skills at various levels internally and in the supplier community. Contribute to the development and support implementation of strategies for procurement categories and related Sub-Categories, ensuring alignment with Firm strategy and key imperatives. Understand and utilize best practice methods and measures to ensure that the optimum balance of cost and quality is achieved in all contracts. Participate in the development of performance metrics and reports on them. #J-18808-Ljbffr Stefanini