Enterprise Procurement Manager

• 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., Description: You are a forward thinking, strategic procurement leader who has a passion for category management, sourcing suppliers, contract negotiations, implementing and analy…
• 13 days ago

• 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 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.