Associate Procurement Consultant

3 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia IBM Full time

Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM is seeking a number of highly motivated experienced Procurement professionals to join our Procurement BPO team of procurement consulting professionals. Our team provides procurement services to IBM’s external clients across all industry segments.

Specifically, we are seeking to fill the role of an Associate Procurement Consultant to support our clients’ procurement and strategic sourcing requirements in indirect spend categories such as: Facilities, MRO, Capital Equipment, Real Estate, Corporate & Professional Services, Information Technology, and Contingent Labor. This role requires regular business travel to remote client locations based on project requirements.

Multiple roles available.

Roles & Responsibilities
- Managing multiple competitive bid events for clients (i.e., Request for Proposal, Request for Quote, Request for Information, Reverse Auctions etc.) within assigned spend categories
- Analyzing client’s historical spend data in one or more categories in order to identify sourcing opportunities, support category strategy development, and measure compliance with supplier agreements
- Building and maintaining stakeholder relationships across all levels of the client’s business, procurement, and legal organizations
- Negotiating commercial terms and facilitating contracting processes with the client’s suppliers
- Analyzing and documenting cost savings versus historical spend to ensure IBM meets or exceeds contractual savings commitments to our clients
- Identifying opportunities to transform the client’s procurement organization and policies, and to support the client in achieving its strategic business objectives
- Supporting Senior Category Managers and Category Managers with development of category strategies and developing sourcing project strategies
- Collaborating with peer consultants supporting our other clients to share and leverage useful templates, strategies, lessons learned, and case studies

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Law, or another applicable field.
- A minimum of 2 years of procurement experience.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Prefer previous experience supporting the Corporate Professional, Facility, Marketing or Logistics Category.
- Client Relationship Management: Ability to build rapport with clients and maintain professionalism in communications with all levels of client stakeholders. On-time delivery of high-quality analyses and presentations.
- Data Analysis: Ability to utilize procurement and financial data to understand spending trends within a business, and to leverage that information to identify procurement insights that result in process efficiencies or cost savings for the client.
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy and attention to detail; ability to process information with high levels of accuracy.
- Dealing with Disorder: Knowledge of tactics and ability to function effectively in the face of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
- Microsoft Office: Strong knowledge and proficiency of Microsoft Office suite. Ability to efficiently and accurately analyze procurement data using Microsoft Excel, and to build client-ready presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Procurement Knowledge: Knowledge of Procurement methods, technologies and processes

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