IT Manager for Purchase

As an IT Purchase Manager at Hitachi Digital, you will play a crucial role in negotiating contracts, managing budgets, and ensuring compliance with company policies. Your responsibilities will include: - Assisting the IT Asset Manager with preparing purchases. - Identifying and selecting vendors for IT products and services, negotiating contracts, and ensuring timely delivery and quality. - Building and maintaining relationships with vendors, evaluating their performance, and ensuring compliance with company standards. - Developing and managing IT purchasing budgets, tracking expenditures, and ensuring cost-effectiveness. - Negotiating favorable terms and conditions with vendors, drafting and reviewing purchase orders and contracts, and ensuring adherence to legal and company regulations. - Monitoring inventory levels, managing stock, and ensuring that the company's IT needs are met efficiently. - Working with internal teams and stakeholders to understand their IT needs, communicating purchasing decisions, and resolving any issues that may arise. - Analyzing data to track purchasing trends, identify areas for improvement, and generate reports for management. - Maintaining contract data and creating purchase requisitions. What you'll bring to the role: - 5+ years of experience in IT purchase. - Familiarity with asset management software and/or inventory tracking systems, such as Flexera, CMDB, etc. - Excellent people skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams, partners, and customers. - Familiarity with contract/agreement review and accurate interpretation. - Familiarity with hardware vendors and their products, including Microsoft, Dell, HP, Cisco, and Apple. - Strong interpersonal, collaboration, communication, and relationship skills for delivering a positive customer experience. - ITIL Foundations certified. - Experience in a multicultural environment. Hitachi Digital is a global company operating across various industries and regions, committed to fostering innovation through diverse perspectives. The company values building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems to enable employees to do their best work. Hitachi Digital offers industry-leading benefits, support, and services that prioritize holistic health and wellbeing. The company promotes life balance and provides flexible arrangements that cater to individual needs. By working at Hitachi Digital, you will experience a sense of belonging, autonomy, freedom, and ownership, collaborating with talented individuals in an environment that encourages the sharing of knowledge and ideas.,