Assistant Category Manager - Software Procurement

What we offer:

This is an exciting career opportunity in an international, challenging business setting known for diversity and being a high paced environment. You will get to focus on creating valuable relations with current and new customers and work with highly professional teams in an environment where you will be valued, recognized and well rewarded. You will work with amazing and diverse colleagues with a deep sense of commitment to live Our Values and together, Go All The Way for our customers, society and for each other.

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for managing software contracts within Technology

• Managing a pipeline of scheduled software renewals
• Leading negotiations for new contracts and amendments
• Create payment plans for each platform
• Maintain regular meetings with key stakeholders to understand their requirements and align with their strategy
• Define and lead supplier qualification, sourcing evaluation, and decision criteria with business stakeholders
• Manage and execute RFI/RFP’s and act as single point of contact for supplier during negotiations
• Facilitate technical scope discussions.
• Prepare and negotiate contracts in close collaboration with legal counsel and project team.
• Enable high level of engagement and collaboration with suppliers
• Support the business functions and business units in resolving supplier delivery, quality measurement, commercial or contractual issues post sign-off, supplier relationship management
• Ability to gather and analyze business and market intelligence to assist strategic decision making for the software category, whilst having significant responsibility to manage end-to-end sourcing and contract lifecycle activities

Who we are looking for:

Our employees represent a wide range of educational backgrounds, work experience

and nationalities - most important to us is your personal skills. You must thrive in a fast paced, fast changing and dynamic environment and be a true team player with strong analytical abilities and interpersonal, and communication skills. The ideal candidate would look like the below:

• 3+ years in a similar role
• Good understanding of Software Procurement
• Excellent negotiation skills and contractual / legal knowledge to deliver on procurement projects and category lifecycle management
• Technical understanding of various IT / Tech. concepts and industry trends.
• Proactive collaboration with suppliers, business partners and key stakeholders with a high level of urgency and delivery in a time critical environment.
• Ability to manage internal & external stakeholders efficiently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills to effectively scrutinize data