Procurement Category Specialist responsible for strategic sourcing initiatives at NOV Corporate Procurement Team in Houston, Texas. Collaborating with internal stakeholders and suppliers to bring value to the organization.
About the role
- IT Category Manager at Unilabs focusing on sourcing strategy for IT procurement. Collaborating with stakeholders and driving supplier performance in a hybrid work environment.
Responsibilities
- Gains agreement and implements sourcing strategy for designated IT categories based on business needs and market insights.
- Expert for nominated category. Becomes “go-to” person for advice on market and sourcing trends. Develops deep understanding of category.
- Conduct spends analysis and supplier segmentation to identify opportunities.
- Support the Senior Global IT Category Manager in cross-border IT deals and end-to-end category management process that includes RFPs, negotiations, and contract awards/management
- Ensure contracts are commercially robust and legally compliant.
- Collaborate and build strong relationships with IT and business stakeholders to ensure to align spend category objectives with organisational goals.
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial terms in IT contracts.
- Report, monitor on savings, compliance and risk
- Drive supplier innovation and continuous improvement
- Manage supplier performance, including service levels, KPIs, and relationship development.
Requirements
- Extensive experience i.e. 5+ years in IT procurement, strategic sourcing and category management within multinational environments
- Strong understanding of IT markets, licensing models, and digital technologies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven expertise in IT contract negotiation and management of software licencing models and commercial frameworks, across Technology categories (Software, IT Services i.e. SaaS, cloud, enterprise agreements, Hardware and Telecoms)
- Collaborative, engaging and influential style, with proven success building credible senior stakeholders and shape business decisions.
- Certifications like CIPS, ITIL would be an advantage
- Fluent in English, spoken and written
- A highly collaborative and true team player.
- Proactive with a positive, solutions-focused mindset.
- Comfortable working at pace, consistently delivering to deadlines, and stable under pressure.
- Resilient and adaptable to change
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