Corporate Purchaser - Vendor Management

Description The Corporate Purchaser for Technology Vendor Management is responsible for supporting the management of the technology portfolio while optimizing the value, cost and risk of technology assets. This role will work with key stakeholders to track, maintain, and coordinate license and maintenance agreement renewals and procurements. The Corporate Purchaser for Technology Vendor Management will be involved in software and hardware acquisition, compliance, maintenance renewals, and life-cycle planning and costing.

• Assist in the IT Service lifecycle management plan for all equipment, hardware, and software licensing.
• Assure software license compliance for all software titles and associated agreements.
• Manage multiple license types, software suites, entitlements, upgrade and downgrade of licenses to ensure best-fit licensing.
• Manage unallocated software licenses for reclamation, software counts for reconciliation and software discovery models for normalization.
• Import licenses and contracts information into the software asset management tool.
• Ensure the integrity and accuracy of the inventory and entitlement data.
• Determine license position for projects, true-ups and audits, and contract and license maintenance renewals using available financial and installation data.
• Provide information associated with litigation and software compliance, contracts, and EULAs.
• Identify, assess and manage risk-related areas in the contract execution process and support rigorous and effective risk management procedures.
• Collect and maintain accurate software licensing information to address budgeting, software compliance and inventory, contracts, and cost.
• Forecast IT asset investments and service costs.
• Perform financial analysis & reviews such as TCO and ROI on project requests to facilitate funding approval.
• Assist in the development of financial models, collect and evaluate data, make appropriate assumptions, analyze results and make recommendations.
• Support process improvements of the key financial systems, processes and metrics to support financial reporting.
• Establish internal standards, processes, and templates for working with vendors and automating processes where applicable.
• Understand IT vendor spending by category, cost center, region, and vendor.
• Ensure there are clear metrics across all key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure strong performance management.
• Assist with the collaboration of IT, Procurement, Legal, and Finance Services to maximize contract value and mitigate risk.
• Work proactively with IT Service Owners to identify areas of opportunity to assist procurement staff when negotiating with vendors to optimize the procurement of cost-effective acquisitions.
• IAITAM (CSAM, CITAM) equivalent certification.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Accounting, Finance, or related degree, and 3 years' experience, preferably with three or more years of experience in project management, asset management, finance, or supply chain, in a technology environment required.
• Or applicable years of experience maybe substituted for degree requirement.
• Ability to see 'big picture" strategic view as well as process details.
• Ability to work with various systems and data sources to gather and assimilate required information.
• Work experience with the ServiceNow platform is preferred.
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) experience is desired.
• IAITAM (CSAM, CITAM) preferred or equivalent certification.

This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.

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Job Procurement Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City Schedule: Full-time Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time Req ID: 263602 Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-MF #CDB