Lead Strategic Sourcing

Job Title

VP/ SVP- IT Infrastructure and Information Security related Sourcing

• The position is part of the Strategic Procurement Unit will support Pan India sourcing of IT hardware, software and associated services for IT infrastructure & information security related products and services including licenses, applications, cloud services and related services
• Role requires strong collaboration with the key stakeholders in IT and Business unit to understand their requirement, recommend right sourcing strategy, identify suitable vendors, float enquiry / RFP/ Tender, conduct negotiations and finalise rate contract.
• Identify opportunities and work on innovative solution to optimize the TCO for each spend categories
• Research the vendor market to gain good knowledge and understanding and explore alternate solutions
• Interact with the internal customers and work closely with them to identify areas of improvement
• Develops relationships with key / critical external partners in accordance with the organizational policies to ensure desired benefits, innovation and risk management is met
• Support the discussion on contractual terms and finalization of various agreements related to the product and services sourced in consultation with the Business, Legal and other stakeholder teams
  

Key Skills

• Person should have relevant experience of 14+ years in the IT sourcing domain, with atleast 3 years in a similar role
• Person should have strong understanding about the commercial terms and vendor eco-system for relevant category
• Engineer/ Postgraduate with professional course in Supply Management will be preferred.
• Should have strong experience in managing stakeholders
• Prior experience in Strategic Sourcing: Designing and conducting RFP, RFI, RFQ, Reverse Auction preferably in tools like Ariba
• Prior experience is driving cost management initiatives and identifying opportunities for cost optimisation
• Prior experience in Supplier development, Spend Analytics, Market Analysis, Value Engineering and Contract management
• Previous experience of sourcing for similar categories in/for Banking industry is highly desirable
• Process oriented with excellent communication, influencing, collaboration and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage ambiguity and ambiguous situations