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Enterprise Procurement Manager

TekWissen LLC

Seattle, WA

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$50–$60
SKILLS
Alliance/Partner Management, Asset Management Software, Coaching, Communication Skills, Contract Approval, Contract Management, Contract Negotiation, Cost Control, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Establish Priorities, Expense Reports, IT Procurement, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Interpersonal Skills, Legal, Multitasking, Negotiation Skills, Onboarding, Organizational Skills, Performance Management, Persuasion Skills, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Privacy Controls, Problem Solving Skills, Procurement Management, Productivity Management, Purchase Orders, Purchasing/Procurement, Regulations, Regulatory Requirements, Reporting Skills, Request for Proposals (RFP), Revenue Growth, Sales, Software as a Service (SaaS), Strategic Planning, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Supply Chain, Team Player, Time Management, Vendor/Supplier Relations, Vendor/Supplier Selection, Workforce Management, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
3 days ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams by turning strategic initiatives into business outcomes. Our unified sales enablement platform gives revenue teams a single solution to elevate customer conversations and drive repeatable revenue, bringing together native content and guidance, training and coaching, and engagement intelligence all supported by actionable analytics.
Position: Enterprise Procurement Manager
Location:Seattle, WA
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type:Remote
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8-5pm PST
Job Description:
  • Client is pioneering the category that is fundamentally changing the way companies increase sales productivity.
  • On a mission to transform the way millions of people work with sales enablement, Client is committed to building breakthrough software with a spark of magic.
  • We believe a great place to work is about more than the work it's about what the company stands for, and how it authentically represents its values in the real world.
  • To this end, we have putintentional focus on creating equitable workspaces for each of our employees.
  • Our goal is to create a culture where everyone feels a deep sense of belonging and is empowered to be an agent of change, with the ability to transform themselves, their workplace, and their world.

About the Role:

  • We are looking for a US-based Enterprise Procurement Manager to support our internal business teams and manage vendor relationships.
  • Ensuring that our teams have the items they need to perform at their best is key to our success, and we're looking for someone who can partner with those teams to develop strategies to support them with existing or new vendors.
  • You will partner with internal teams to ensure that vendor requests meet our requirements to ensure security and privacy of information along with meeting our legal requirements.
  • This role will also represent the company in discussions with our vendors to ensure that we are maintaining those key partnerships and effectively managing the negotiations with them.
  • You will play a key role in building and sustaining our vendor relationships while driving savings and value for our internal business partners.
  • You will be empowered to negotiate incoming contracts focusing on all manner of indirect spend to secure advantageous terms.
  • Partner with internal teams to develop strategies for upcoming contract renewals or establish requirements for new purchasing needs.
  • Source and engage reliable suppliers and vendors by providing RFI and RFP support to internal stakeholders as needed.
  • Partner with Legal and Security to ensure terms are consistent with legal, regulatory, data security, and privacy requirements.
  • Create reports and populate systems of record for procurement including systems for purchase orders (Coupa) and contract management (Lexion), and request queue management (Tropic).
  • Assist with vendor qualification and onboarding processes.
  • Assist in driving and identifying potential cost savings across all spend categories.
Deliverables:

Your Background:

  • 5+ years in an indirect spend procurement role
  • SaaS industry
experience required:
  • Experienced in procurement of IT/SaaS categories
  • Self-starting, enthusiastic, entrepreneurial attitude
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with diverse groups
  • Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills with experience driving six-figure, multi-year contracts to completion
  • Solid interpersonal and collaborative abilities
  • Strong time management and planning skills required to coordinate and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously while adapting to changes in business requirements
  • Technically savvy, including a demonstrated high level of proficiency in SaaS technologies and trends
  • Ability to demonstrate a strategic mindset to enable persuasive value conversations with vendors at an executive level
  • Strong operational business understanding of technology supply chain, including purchase ordering, expense reporting, procurement/sourcing, provisioning and reclamation, renewals, and contract management
  • Familiarity with using P2P tools, contract management and software asset management applications a plus.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/

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