IT Strategic Sourcing Manager

IT strategic sourcing

Technology categories subject matter expert (SME) managing high value and complex purchases and covering the end to end sourcing life cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive high value & complex sourcing initiatives/projects for technology purchasing categories.
• Analyze the spend of the assigned technology categories and identify potential cost saving opportunities in collaboration with business units stakeholders
• Partner with business units’ stakeholders to ensure smooth communication and clear documentation.
• Support the Strategic Sourcing lead to take direct responsibility for large scale or complex sourcing initiatives through Category / Commodity plans whilst ensuring the risk associated with the purchase of Goods & services are mitigated commercially, contractually and operationally.
• Execute strategic sourcing activities for assigned technology categories including but not limited to business requirements, spend analysis, supply market analysis, agree on sourcing strategies, preferred vendors and tendering tools (RFP/RFQ/RFI), purchase order issuance and contract handover to business unit, procurement operations and vendor management.
• Support line manager to achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPI) as set out in the objectives.
• Track and report category spend, savings and general performance.
• Monitor and forecast upcoming projects for assigned technology categories
• Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier negotiation power.
• Renew annual maintenance contract in due time at the best cost.
• Execute sourcing strategies and comply with contractual guidelines.
• Enhance the overall procurement cycle and ensuring the best value for money spend
• Ensure compliance with the approved policies, procedures, SLAs and regulatory requirements to maintain quality standards and ensure risk mitigation.

Competencies/Skills

Education

Minimum Graduation or Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Technology or equivalent field.

Work Experience

Minimum of 3 - 4 years of experience in procurement category management buying related to technology products and services

Technical Comptencies

• Strategic sourcing
• eProcurement
• Tendering tools (RFx)
• Spend analysis
• Supply market analysis
• Vendor management
• Negotiations skills
• Contracts and contracts management
• Sharia principles of Islamic finance

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