Introduction
As a Tactical Buyer you will play an essential role to re-valuate, re-negotiate or extend contracts and suppliers to achieve optimum benefits.
Your role and responsibilities
- Execute competitive bid events
- Communicate and negotiate with clients and suppliers through all levels of organization
- Support one-off tactical sourcing of client requirements
- Provide support across multi-categories
- Identify appropriate potential suppliers to fit client's business objectives
- Analyze contract database to determine correct contract to use
- Liaise with stakeholder to understand needs and future plans
- Support periodic key stakeholder meetings with client to review commodity strategy and activities
- Consider what contract structure (hierarchy) is best used for a particular supplier scenario
- Build effective relationships with IBM different entities as well as the client business and procurement stakeholders
- Interact with parallel organizations in other geos to assure consistent global approach
- Perform periodic analysis within managed commodity scope to identify savings, define efficiency opportunities and tactical initiatives that should be undertaken
- Negotiate and contract with suppliers driving additional savings and value
- Resolve issues by extending own knowledge base
- Promote process efficiencies through focus on automated channels where applicable
- Optimize supply base opportunities across managed commodities
- Manage multiple procurement projects simultaneously, ensuring timely completion
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Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Strong Verbal and written English & Italian skills.
- Education: Bachelor's Degree (Minimum).
- Solid procurement experience including RFx management experience (3 years)
- Strong negotiation and communication skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks effectively.
- Proficiency in procurement software and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Knowledge of industry standards and regulations.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Assertive personality
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
- Team player attitude
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Proactive character, taking the initiative.
- Attention to detail and accuracy in every aspect of the role.
- Flexibility to undertake any non-routine requests.
- Open for new challenges and look for win-win situations.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM's financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk. Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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ABOUT IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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