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Sr Mgr Strategic Solutions
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
New York, NY, United States
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Overview and Responsibilities
This position will identify and lead strategic sourcing initiatives across Company business units focusing on IT related expenditures, which deliver cost savings and quality solutions based on close collaboration with business and finance leaders. Although the immediate requirement is to work in the IT spend category, the desirable candidate will be an adaptable Sourcing professional with interest and flexibility to work across multiple categories, including non-IT. This position is located in New York City.
Basic Qualifications
• Proactively engage and propose measures to MTS senior management that drive global strategic initiatives through sourcing efforts, including supplier and spend consolidation.
• Responsible for drafting and preparing formal supplier requests including RFP’s, RFI’s, and RFQ’s across a wide range of IT and non-IT products and services that generate qualitative and quantitative supplier responses, solutions, and savings to the company.
• Work as team member in vendor evaluation and selection; lead selection process and negotiations; recommend winning bidder based on best value for the company
• Lead specified business units through sourcing process and ensure sourcing decisions are consistent with overall company strategy, policy and needs
• Lead negotiations with vendors, in collaboration with key stakeholders. Offer guidance and negotiation tactics to team.
• Work with Information Technology groups (MTS) to understand full vendor landscape and to identify savings opportunities across vendor engagements
• Establish and maintain close working relationships with client business units
Make presentations to business unit management and senior company management on sourcing initiatives
Additional Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA preferred.
• 5+ years of prior supply chain or other sourcing experience.
• Experience in technology sourcing such as servers, storage equipment, telecom, professional services, software and SaaS solutions; and familiarity with digital asset workflows within the entertainment industry
• Experience with eSourcing and Spend tools.
• Deep knowledge and experience of sourcing and procurement processes
• Successful Project Management track record
• Knowledge in the Information Technology vendor landscape (outsourcing/offshore service offerings, pricing, and delivery structures, hardware, software); familiarity with key vendors serving the entertainment industry
• Strong negotiation skills
• Experience in complex negotiations and prioritizing multiple components
• Financial and pricing analysis