Leads procurement and category management for Red Sea Coastal Trading Company, driving strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management across complex projects.
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Hybrid Lead IT Sourcing Specialist – Network & Telecom
Posted 3 months ago
About the role
- Lead IT Sourcing Specialist managing Network & Telecom commodities for GE Vernova. Overseeing strategies and vendor management to reduce total cost of ownership.
Responsibilities
- Oversee development and execution of strategies through the sourcing process for the specific Category including strategy, market analysis, negotiation process (RFXs), supplier selection and contract creation, and buy channel management
- Work with Vendor Management Office to help solve problems, monitor strategy implementation to ensure benefit realization
- Negotiate with dedicated providers according to specific policies to achieve the best contractual conditions while ensuring internal customer satisfaction
- Drive value through supplier relationship management
- Utilize an understanding of industry trends to inform the decision-making process
- Develop expertise within function by growing reputation within organization, providing professional and thought leadership, influencing policy, and ensuring delivery within own function while linking with other functions of the organization
- Present business solutions to leaders in functional area
- Driving demand management and compliance for IT categories (e.g., number of licenses, alternatives, number and specs of devices, preferred vendor development)
- Working closely with IT Requisitioning Process for assigned spend categories
- Serve as trusted advisor to multi-functional stakeholder teams to design and implement specific strategic sourcing initiatives to meet business requirements and priorities
- Driving best practices
- Measuring and tracking internal performance within each spend category
- Champion and secure TCO reductions for your category
- Monitoring strategy implementation to ensure benefit realization
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university
- Strong experience in IT Sourcing (Hardware, Software, Professional Services, Support, and Maintenance) in general with specific experience in Network and Telecom Sourcing categories.
- Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, and project management skills, including spend analytics, should-cost analysis, market research & intelligence, and a proven track record in problem resolution.
Benefits
- Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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