IT Strategic Sourcing

Job Description: The role of an IT Sourcing expertise involves providing high-value strategic sourcing solutions to the business, supporting Suppliers/OEM/Service Providers selection, vendor development, technology management, and performance measurement activities. The goal is to ensure best-in-class delivery of external services, software and products in the Telecom, Data, Digital & IT Category, achieving year-on-year productivity improvements, cost savings, and process improvements in close collaboration with business & IT stakeholdersRole & Responsibilities:Proactively engaging in sourcing projects, specification definition and demand management with a focus across domains on requirement analysis and category specific objectives.Identify new source, assessment, and evaluation & as per strategic sourcing process (RFI, RFP, RFQ and e-auction)Collaborate with internal teams (IT/ Tech/ /Engineering / Finance / Legal) and external team (Suppliers/OEM/ServiceProviders) to address commercial and technical challenges to ensure timely delivery / implementation of HW/SW/Contracts/Agreements related to the assigned category.Executing the Source-to-Contract (S2C) & Procure-to-Pay (P2P) workflow related to the IT categories with appropriate documentation and compliance, including respective strategies, approaches and methods, preparing and conducting fact-based negotiations.Ensure the right balance between business needs and Cost, Solution and Optimization.Periodic reporting to IT end user/requester, Project team and SCM leadership on open project status, issues, and corrective actions.Responsible for supplier selection, conduct market research and vendor profiling - Supplier empanelment. Co-ordinate periodic vendor reviews and publish vendor performance metrics. Act as a pivotal point of escalation for managing Vendor performance: Identify Service partners issues and Co-ordinate resolution process (Commercial and Qualitative)Build and manage effective internal and external relationships within the Sourcing, client team and service partners and wider business.Analysing specifications for optimization. Linking specification to customer value, challenging specification confidently. Conveying messages clearly and convincing stakeholders.Achieving results by proactively building long-term, sustainable and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape and demonstrating intelligence across business structures and networks.Ability to manage time effectively in a high paced dynamic environment and capable to prioritizing workload to meet scheduling demands and timelinesBe aware of global IT industry trends, OEM market conditions, HW & SW technological advancements and trade regulations related to the service categories.QualificationsBachelors/Master’s degree in Engineering and MBA would be desired.Desired Exp: 10 – 14 yrs- IT Strategic Sourcing (Hardware & Software).