IT Category Manager

Grant Thornton is seeking an IT Category Manager to lead the commercial discussions and negotiations for goods/services provided by its IT suppliers. The category manager will be responsible for sourcing strategic services by identifying the most relevant and competitive acceptable supply sources, facilitating and coordinating RFx process, and working with legal to negotiate and finalize agreements.

Requirements

• Ensure all business, functional, and technical requirements for all goods or services are properly vetted, market ready, and commercially executed.
• Provide expert strategic sourcing support and leadership for all aspects of procurement projects with a specific focus on technology products and services.
• Achieve savings by improving internal processes and procedures, implementing supply chain efficiencies, understanding and reducing total cost of ownership, and balancing the overall cost, quality, and effectiveness for purchased IT products and services.
• Provide market insight, benchmarking, and commodity expertise to the firm for decision making.
• Generate annual IT category plans which incorporate sourcing project waves to meet business goals and technology savings objectives.
• Support and/or lead the analysis, selection, implementation, management and use of process automation, including eProcurement, Contract Lifecycle Management and eSourcing as applicable to add efficiencies, increase effectiveness, and contain costs for the firm’s expenditures.
• Coordinate with business stakeholders to ensure supplier sourcing strategies are aligned with enterprise goals and objectives.
• Evaluate, analyze, and score supplier proposals with stakeholders and recommend strategic path forward.
• Review contracts with technology SMEs, business stakeholders, and legal while ensuring proper contract terminology.
• Develop service provider evaluation metrics to allow for fair and equitable scoring of suppliers.
• Leverage Ariba, ADO, and Power BI for processing transactions, analysis, and tracking of work.
• Negotiate contracts expiring on an annual basis and new deals/supplier deals.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance