Requirements: English
Company: Compaia Multinacional
Region: Barcelona , Catalonia
We are part of an international group that provides leverage cloud technologies and shared technology platforms to accelerate Companies transformation and digital strategy. Our goal is to optimize services to meet the changing needs of our Group & customers, agents and employees, enhancing service quality whilst delivering significant synergies among business units
Main focus is the negotiation for Spain Country of Business applications and IT service contracts applying T&Cs with latest provisions regarding Security, Data Privacy and Compliance.
The IT Buyer has the mandate for managing within his area of responsibility at global level the activities within the category IT Procurement for the Group subsidiaries. This also includes the respective category-internal supplier management. The Buyer conceptualizes, organizes, implements and steers sourcing activities. He/She develops partnership with internal customers across the company. The objective of the activities is to achieve the best possible conditions for the whole Company Group (optimal in the sense of quality, time to market and costs) and to ensure an optimal supplier base.
As a IT Buyer your main responsibilities will involve:
- Performing tenders and conducting negotiations
- Support Category manager in following cases:
- Target achievement and fulfillment of existing reporting requirements.
- Development of demand management plans together with the relevant internal stakeholders.
- Continuous market intelligence / analysis to identify alternative suppliers, new developments and improved solutions, prediction of price developments as basis for improvement measures.
- Identification of cost reduction and optimization levers for the defined sub-categories and active analysis of optimization levers in regard to demand volume and specifications.
- Helps establish group wide transparency and segmentation of the IT spending.
- Development and alignment of global category strategies for the defined sub-categories together with the relevant internal stakeholders, identification of preferred suppliers and engagement governance by sub-category.
- Achievement of savings target as aligned with Procurement Delivery and the respective Category Manager.
- Implementation of the category strategy within the defined area of responsibility
- Active management of the main category-internal suppliers as well as their integration into demand and specification management processes, monitoring of supplier performance, gathering of customer feedback.
- Project management activity to manage each stage of the contract life-cycle (negotiation, renewal, remediation, termination etc.) by effectively coordinating the engagement of stakeholders form other functions like: Compliance, IT Security and internal clients representatives both from Business and IT functions.
- Conclusion of contracts with main suppliers.
As a IT Buyer your skills and qualifications will ideally include:
- +3 years of work experience with Purchasing in Information Technology
- University level degree or comparable
- Highly desired: Experience with procurement of Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) SW Licenses and Maintenance, HW Products and maintenance, IT Services (Application development and maintenance, infrastructure services, operations, IT consultancy)
- Problem-solving and analytical skillset
- Communication skills and ability to manage a wide array of different stakeholders
- Strong operational focus, ability to drive topics and deliver results
- Ability to present results clearly and to the point
- Ability to identify negotiation levels and execute negotiation strategy
- Fluent English and Spanish, another European language is a plus