Procurement Analyst

Description

Role Overview
• Leads complex IT procurement and contract negotiations across software, SaaS, and enterprise system implementations supporting large-scale government operations.
• Owns cradle-to-grave acquisition lifecycle, ensuring compliance, cost optimization, and alignment with security and regulatory requirements.
• Acts as a strategic partner to stakeholders and vendors, balancing operational needs with legal, financial, and procurement constraints. Core Responsibilities
• Negotiate high-value IT software, SaaS, and services contracts, including pricing, SLAs, and enterprise license agreements.
• Manage full procurement lifecycle (RFP through award and administration) for large-scale IT and system integration initiatives.
• Redline and negotiate legal terms and conditions, including intellectual property, EULA language, and compliance requirements.
• Drive cost savings using commercial levers, including scope control, staffing optimization, and phased delivery strategies.
• Collaborate with legal, finance, and IT stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulatory and security standards.
• Maintain vendor relationships while challenging risk, pricing, or contract terms to protect organizational interests. Required Experience
• 6 Minimum years of procurement and/or IT contracting experience.
• Proven experience negotiating IT software, SaaS, and IT services contracts with enterprise-scale scope and complexity.
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end procurement lifecycle, including RFP development, evaluation, negotiation, and contract administration.
• Experience redlining and negotiating IT contract legal terms, including IP rights, SLAs, and compliance provisions.
• Ability to drive cost savings through pricing strategy, scope definition, and resource planning.
• Strong stakeholder management and vendor negotiation skills, including handling complex or sensitive contract issues. Preferred / Valuable Background
• Experience with enterprise platforms such as SAP, People Soft, or Smartsheet in large-scale implementations.
• Background in government or highly regulated procurement environments, including compliance with security and policy standards.
• Experience supporting multi-department or enterprise-wide system integrations with high user impact. Summary The IT Procurement Specialist III manages and executes IT procurement activities in support of the buying requirements of the IT Business Unit. Identifies IT procurement efficiencies and executes supply chain IT category strategies, targets and schedules in order to achieve goals and objectives for cost management, inventory management, supplier management including supplier diversity and process improvement.

Manages IT Business Unit partnerships to deliver excellent customer service. Analyzes costs, redlines and negotiates legal terms and conditions for multi-million dollar IT contracts (software, software as a service (SaaS), IT services, IT hardware, IT projects), effectively communicates and presents to IT Business Unit leadership and Supply Chain leadership, and identifies strategies and solutions to help IT Business Unit partners to better manage costs with IT supplier engagements and IT supplier services/software/other information technology products/services.

Executes IT RFx and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process in an efficient and cost-effective manner while supporting continuous process improvement and customer satisfaction.

Minimum Requirements
• A four-year bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain or other job-related discipline from an accredited college or university
• Plus, six (6) years of procurement experience in materials or services positions.
• In lieu of bachelor's degree , ten (10) years of procurement experience in materials or services positions required. Preferred Special Skills, Knowledge or

Qualifications:

• Exposure to strategic supply chain management.
• Experience using Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems.
• Strong analytical, verbal and written communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in using analytical software tools such as Microsoft Excel and Access. Major…