IBM is seeking highly motivated individuals with comprehensive commercial procurement and client facing or consulting experience to join our team of procurement professionals. Specifically, we are looking for procurement professionals to join IBM's Global Procurement team in support of IBM Procurement Services business area, servicing IBM's external clients.
Strong Verbal and written skills required.
Responsibility
Execute competitive bid events, benchmarking projects
Analyse changing client/market conditions
Support sourcing projects based on client requirements
Communicate and negotiate with clients and suppliers through all levels of organization
Perform periodic analysis within managed commodity scope to identify savings, define efficiency opportunities and initiatives that should be undertaken
Optimize supply base opportunities across managed commodities
Take category guidance from the Category Manager
Support client specific category strategy – redirect spend through strategic contracts/channels as appropriate
Educate and advise clients and suppliers on strategies
Interface with strategic sourcing team to implement strategic contracts
Promote process efficiencies through focus on automated channels where applicable
Identify appropriate potential suppliers to fit client's business objectives
Negotiate and contract with exception suppliers driving additional savings and value
Track savings in the appropriate tool and store evidence for audit purposes
Communicate sourcing instructions to the operations buyers
Communicate supplier recommendations to clients based on objective criteria and fit for client business
Track and report supplier performance and resolve any supplier performance issues in conjunction with the Category Manager
Identify any exception opportunities to the Category Managers and make recommendations on strategic approaches that might be taken
Interact with parallel organizations in other geos to assure consistent global approach
Act in compliance with all relevant IBM business conduct guidelines and client driven procurement processes