Our client is a Retail Giant that is looking for a IT Sourcing Specialist to jion their growing team. The incumbent will be primarily responsible for the refinement of the IT strategic sourcing framework and drive value and cost saving opportunities for IT goods and services. This will involve liaising with both internal and external stakeholders to understand complex business, technical, regulatory, service and legal requirements and translate these into specific RFx requirements across the various scoring categories.
The succesful candidate should have the following:
Strong understanding / experience with:
- Software
- Licensing
- Hardware
- RFP, RFI and RFX processes
- Process modelling
- Develop comprehensive sourcing strategies and opportunities to maximise value and minimize total cost of ownership, including improved quality, pricing and service levels within applicable risk tolerance levels.
- Conduct total cost of ownership analysis to identify major cost drivers and savings opportunities.
- Align key stakeholders to the strategy and execution plans.
- Drive supply market analysis, as well as perform cost modelling and benchmarking.
- Evaluate historical spend and cost performance for technology procurement through data mining and statistical analyses, and subsequently translate the data into an annual strategic sourcing strategy.
- Develop the RFP documentation pack, master scorecard and evaluation model.
- Execute the RFP process as the single point of contact with all participating suppliers to maintain a documented audit trail.
- and translate these into specific RFx requirements across the various scoring categories.
- Execute RFx’s across supplier or spend categories to promote the benefits of a competitive sourcing process within the business and evaluate supplier proposals and recommend business awards.
- Develop standardised systems and controls for IT sourcing (including RFx processes and documentation, build-in sourcing and procurement rules and guidelines, RFx execution models, and supplier or contractor selection criteria) to enable the most efficient and effective procurement approach based on investment risk and type of procurement.
- Execute the sourcing process and documentation controls by engaging and managing internal support teams across all relevant business units, IT and Legal.
- Lead sourcing events from project kick-off to contract negotiations.
- Develop negotiation strategy, timeline and scenarios, and manage execution to maximise investment and minimise risk
Desired Skills:
- Software experience
- Licensing experience
- Hardware experience
- RFP/RFI/RFX
- Process modelling