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Skills
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- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Contract Approvalunmatched
- Contract Managementunmatched
- Contract Negotiationunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
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- Legalunmatched
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- Onboardingunmatched
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- Performance Managementunmatched
- Persuasion Skillsunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Privacy Controlsunmatched
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- Procurement Managementunmatched
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- Request for Proposals (RFP)unmatched
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Description
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
Shift: Monday to Friday, 8-5pm PST
Job Description:
- We are looking for a 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.
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.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Seattle, WA (Remote) |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $60–$70 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
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.