Strategic Sourcing Consultant

Strategic Sourcing Consultant

Immediate need for a talented Strategic Sourcing Consultant with experience in the Banking and Financials Industry. This is a 6+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Plano, TX. Please review the job description below.

• Develop, align, and execute strategic sourcing events, leading the negotiation activities for those events
• Review and assess technology proposals for risk and ensure favorable deal terms, competitive pricing, and alignment to business priorities
• Leverage budgets and consolidate demand to identify areas of opportunity for strategically sourcing technology products and services
• Lead BTS teams to find common ground with our suppliers on issues of pricing and performance, key deal terms to realize savings and business outcomes
• Develop and deliver effective executive level communication to ensure understanding of proposals, scenarios, and contracts
• Establish IT contractual agreements by developing proposals that translate efficiently to those IT contractual agreements (SOWs, license agreements, etc.)
• Coach, develop and mentor other team members with a goal of developing expert level strategic sourcing capabilities across the BTS team
• Ensure all aspects of contract sourcing are completed and intervene in case of problems, delays, or disputes, escalating issues when appropriate
• Enable and govern internal policies, standards, and processes, and templates that drive successful Client IT sourcing events
• Promote and build cross organizational and cross affiliate strategic sourcing processes and practices.

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Management Information Systems or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 8 or more years of demonstrated work experience in IT and this function.
• High-level communication skills to influence and persuade others.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create and present concepts and recommendations to executive management.
• MBA
• Experience working in the Office of the CIO or similar function.