Job Title : Global IBS Sourcing Manager

Purpose Of Role :

Has overall responsibility for supporting and influencing the business on long term supply market strategy planning for Global IBS spend. Will work with functional leaders of each spend category to align on needs and strategy. These categories include: IT Services, IT Infrastructure, IT Hardware & Software. The role will be primarily measured on Savings, Avoidance, WAPT, Supplier Performance, and Value Creation.

Accountabilities :

- Work with the business to segment and identify spend areas to strategically source with the goal of identifying cost savings and increasing working capital through payment terms.

- Issue RFx and analyze best solutions, negotiate price and commercial terms and conditions. Implement sourcing projects and be accountable for results

- Establish goals which align to overall ABI and IBS goals, measure and drive for performance

Sourcing Project Delivery :

- Overall responsibility for on-time delivery of high-quality Sourcing Services projects.

- Monitoring the progress of individual projects and providing guidance to sourcing team members in execution of sourcing projects

- Serve as escalation point for project quality issues for sourcing team members as well as internal stakeholders

- Develop and improve sourcing project management tools and processes, leveraging from industry best practices

- Maintain and provide a current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends to team members and business partners

Supply Market Intelligence :

- Understand and have experience in Global BPO, Global Telecom, Global Application, Software, Hardware negotiations and establishment of SOW's.

- Ability to manage suppliers per the established SOW's and establish performance penalties

- Provide leadership to team in supply market intelligence research and analysis activities for visibility in key cost drivers, pricing trends, emerging market regions, supply market adjustments, capabilities, capacities, etc

- Develop and implement research, analysis and intelligence reporting methodology, tools, databases and processes

- Support internal purchasing, strategic suppliers review and new product development programs with supply market intelligence

- Develop, coordinate and manage supplier business reviews

- Manage the development, implementation, and alignment of global or regional sourcing strategies and global or regional supplier network capabilities for the appropriate industry to achieve broad business objectives

- Evaluate supplier capabilities and establish sources for new technologies and in new markets as business requirements dictate

- Direct the development and negotiation of complex agreements with suppliers encompassing key program specifications and functional objectives

- Advises on global supplier network capabilities, commodity/spend category trends and industry best practices

Product / Scaleable Knowledge Development :

- Design the overall sourcing category plan for product lines and categories (TBD)

- Develop and document sourcing best practices through creation of knowledge documents

- Quickly acquire commodity knowledge in categories where there is limited internal knowledge

Business Environment :

- The creation of the new GPO the Procurement will transform the Procurement Function in ABI going towards to a much higher centralization at Global level. This will require a high sourcing and analytical capability at GPO combined with high efficiency.

- The Sourcing Manager IT will need to deal with a great amount of ambiguity upfront as they work through the strategy and execution plan.

- The role will have no direct reports, however the bigger challenge will be to coordinate and work effectively with the existing resources in the zones and in the functions to create an - extended- sourcing team.

- Stakeholders are distributed across the globe and this individual will be required to work long hours to accommodate multiple time zones.

Scope Of Role :

- Global, all zones

- Total category spend $0.5Bn, - 2,000 suppliers

- Total Centralized spend under control $100MM, 5-10 suppliers.

Qualifications And Technical Competencies Required :

Education :

- Bachelor's Degree required, MBA preferred

- 4+ years professional experience preferred

- 2+ years strategic sourcing / procurement experience preferred in global IT sourcing

Skills :

- Knowledge and understanding of large scale IT and Service Center outsourcing relationships

- Ability to create and mange SOW with outsource providers

- Abitilty to know how to consolidate IT spend and provided leadership in establishing the strategy

- Excellent communication, project management and relationship building skills

- Strong Management skills of both internal and external stakeholders

- Must posses ability to lead formal and informal teams

- Strong analytical, organizational, and presentation skills

- Ability to deal with Ambiguity

- Global Sourcing Knowledge and Experience

- Proven Leadership skills

- Ability to communicate fluently in English

- Other European languages knowledge preferred

- Willingness to travel frequently internationally

Knowledge :

- Experience in the appropriate industry required

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word and Excel

- eSourcing knowledge preferred

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