Director, Indirect Sourcing and Procurement- It

Overview:
**Reasons why you’ll love it here**:

- An amazing culture with a team that supports one another, the opportunity to make a direct impact, and have fun along the way
- We are experiencing rapid growth
- come grow along with us.
- We work hard and play hard offering unlimited and flexible PTO.
- Phenomenal health, dental and vision benefits for you and your family (and we pay almost 90% of the premiums).
- Additional options for employer contributions to HSA, 401k match, Dependent Care FSA, short-term/long-term disability, life insurance and more.
- Business Casual, Flexible and hybrid office locations in both Westport, CT and Charleston, SC.

**Responsibilities**:
**Position Summary**:
We have an immediate opening for a full time Director, Procurement - Information Technology working extensively with our retail client located in Vancouver, BC. As a key member of our Client Services team, you will be responsible for leading and managing varying engagements within our client’s Information Technology Spend, in areas such as: IT Services, Software, Telecom, Hardware & Point of Sale. This role will engage with all relevant client stakeholders and sponsors and reports directly to the Managing Director, Indirect Procurement.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop cost savings and strategic sourcing projects while ensuring business continuity and high level of supplier performance
- Manage spend, supplier, and market data from client and LogicSource resources to effectively analyze both savings opportunity and value chain impacts
- Lead all levels of supplier market RFI / RFP activities, including execution, readouts and business case implications. Meet with potential participants, both incumbents and non-incumbents, answer RFP related questions from vendors, analyze RFP results and support final vendor(s) awards
- Drive annual productivity improvements in each category of spend by developing and ensuring implementation of ideas to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) for spend categories
- Support development of new policies and procedures to drive savings and lead organizational and operational change management within managed categories of spend.
- Leverages LogicSource’s Center of Excellence (COE) category experts through the sourcing process to assess market conditions, spend leverage opportunities, benchmarking data, RFP builds, and related activities
- Support as well as lead sourcing events, including vendor sourcing, vendor and contract negotiations
- Onboard new suppliers
- Bring sourcing efficiency to all activity; define specific roadmaps containing prioritization of sourcing categories as well as expanding e-procurement catalogs
- Lead research and analytics efforts to both validate savings projections and enable more precise supplier negotiations
- Review major contracts for key areas of spend and act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) resource for planning and leading complex negotiations or re-supply modeling. Create procurement playbook as it relates to cyclical spending.
- Consistently monitor and evaluate savings against targets by category, sub-category, and supplier
- Develop PPV (product price variance) trackers to ensure improved price / savings baseline analysis
- Develop and communicate functional supply chain or sourcing strategy to a diverse group of managers and senior level professionals at client. Create alignment with group and articulate broader procurement transformation.
- Source suppliers and build a best-in-class supply chain; cultivate and manage relationships with best-in-class suppliers. Fully utilize all strategic levers within sourcing process and find new paths to value
- Build supplier management and continuous improvement methodologies with key suppliers
- Establish and implement a supplier management structure and process; audit and vet vendors
- Work cross functionally to deliver sourcing and procurement cost savings, risk mitigation projects, and supplier enabled innovation
- Aggressive focus on achieving overall category cost savings.

Qualifications:
**Required Education and Experience**:

- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum of ten (10) years’ experience in indirect procurement, vendor management, and strategic sourcing with deep expertise in Information Technology, including but not limited to: IT Services, Software, Telecom, Hardware & Point of Sale systems.
- Experience managing category spend over $50MM annually
- Building category strategies
- Contract negotiation and contract management
- Comfort and rigorous process in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modeling
- Ability to drive change management and gain consensus from client stakeholders across several business units’ company wide
- Experience in driving operational redesign process improvement initiatives
- Must possess strong overall knowledge and understanding of business/contract issues and broad understanding of competitive products/services, technology, and market and industry issues
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