Procurement

• Develop deep expertise in IT hardware and software markets, understanding dynamics, trends, drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Serve as the internal expert, sharing actionable market insights with stakeholders across the organization.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive supplier mapping for IT hardware and software.
• Identify and document which teams and entities require specific IT products/services.
• Consolidate and review global category spend to leverage key suppliers.
• Consolidate and review global category spend and maintain detailed spend analysis down to product/service types.
• Work closely with R&D and HUBs to align sourcing strategies with evolving business needs.
• Define, refine, defend, and maintain sourcing strategies for IT hardware and software, aligned with current and future business needs.
• Ensure strategies address supply security, quality, on time delivery (OTD), and competitiveness.
• Provide a Supplier Orientation Chart for each category with the sourcing status for each supplier to ease strategy implementation.
• Proactively identify opportunities for product standardization and global sourcing initiatives across Grid Automation.
• Act as the gatekeeper for supplier onboarding, ensuring that only supplier aligned with strategy are onboarded.
• Conduct Quarterly Business Reviews with Key suppliers.
• Negotiate and maintain Global Frame Agreements in SAP Ariba, including periodic renewal of price lists and terms.
• Maintain Global Frame Agreements and communicate updates to all internal stakeholders.
• Ensure software license usage and ensure alignment with contractual documentation.
• Provide contract templates or guidelines tailored to your category to product and hub SCMs.
• Support or lead, when relevant, contractual discussions.
• Actively support supplier risk management processes, addressing risks such as sole sourcing, financial exposure, capacity and cybersecurity.

Global Category Manager – IT H/W & S/W Licenses

Procurement Process Improvement Lead