Lead - IT Procurement
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Description
- 10+ years of relevant experience with procurement of IT equipment and services in a Technical Operations or similar context.
- Experience in negotiation for service contracts, equipment purchases, AMC renewals.
- Good understanding of contract language & legalese, and ability to coordinate in contract negotiation with legal counsel and outside vendors.
- Familiarity with Desktop, Server & Network hardware specifications, IT Licenses (OEM like Microsoft, VMWare, Cisco etc.) willingness to investigate and learn new technologies where needed.
- Finance Acumen: Strong understanding of financial principles, budgeting techniques, and accounting practices.
- Experience with budgeting processes, Strong research and data analysis abilities. Experience with quantitative analysis including cost modeling, forecasting and inventory planning
- Under Payment Management - Recurring Payments, duplicate payments track against invoices; keep track of monthly invoices for all vendors and maintain the payment tracking sheet.
- PO Creation and generation, maintaining the PO acceptance copy and entire PO process to be maintained til it is released to vendor.
- Keep track of CAPEX & OPEX for IT against budget, Maintaining the budget sheet, Telecom and Technology costs.
- Keep track of delivery for new equipment’s and coordinate with Finance to process their invoices Keep track of AMC’s and warranties expiry renewal
- Under Vendor Management - Negotiation in pricing, terms and conditions of sale, and warranties of goods and products with key suppliers and vendors.
- Must have at least 10yrs experience preferably with IT Procurement
- At least of Commerce Graduate or Post graduate into commerce program
- Strong written and verbal communication skills (must have), with native level fluency in English.
- Quick learner with an ability to Document, share and transfer knowledge.
- Proficiency in Microsoft suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), proficiency in Purchase-to-pay tools