Procurement Manager

• This role temporarily position for six mounts for a Global Category Manager of Procurement, Technology
• We are looking for someone who can quickly jump into reviewing SaaS agreements, assisting with negotiations, processing orders and quickly completing purchasing and contract management tasks
• This role will interface with key business partners and management, and foster trusted relationships with their global stakeholders - it is important the resource has excellent customer service skills, responds quickly to fast-paced requests and sets expectations with stakeholders in a timely manner
• We are seeking an organized, process and data-driven individual with experience in:
  
  • Redlining SaaS agreements, orders and amendments
  • Processing and approving PR/PO s
  • Understanding global company structure and legal requirements
  • Gathering requirements, building cost analyses and calculating savings
  • Filing agreements and cleaning contract repositories

What will you do

• Guide the company throughout the Procure to Pay process including Sourcing, Contracting, Opening Purchase Requests, and matching Payments
• Troubleshoot Procure to Pay issues on a daily basis, working closely with Legal, Accounting, FPA, Treasury and AP

• Support all contracting requests, manage renewals, and monitor contracting needs
• Review and redline contracts for financial and commercial risks
• Fully understand commercial agreements, including impact of commercial terms and required escalation points to Privacy, Security and Legal
• Accurately identify best contract templates to use in each situation
• Quickly process high volume of quick-turn agreements, balancing fast service on simple agreements with escalation of large risks
• Negotiate commercial and payment terms
• Streamline inefficient contracting issues; identify vendor MSA and consolidation opportunities

• Support all purchasing requests and troubleshoot vendor management issues
• Help users create and submit PO s
• Approve PO s and monitor P2P approvals on a daily basis
• Troubleshoot payment issue

• Contribute to a global team including:
• Contribute to standardized savings reporting and management reports
• Help build, align and teach global purchasing standards

What will you bring to the team

• 1-5 Years in a relevant Procurement, Strategic Sourcing or Purchasing role
• Fluent in English, with ability to balance global and local requirements
• Contracting experience with standard legal templates, redlining protocol, understanding all aspects of business agreements
• Experience and mastery with P2P systems (Coupa, Basware), CLM systems (Ironclad), Financial ERP s (Netsuite, MS Dynamics) preferred
• Excel and Powerpoint expertise
• IT Category experience preferred
• Positive attitude and desire to help people