IT Procurement Specialist (Contract)

Job Purpose

This role shall report to the Manager, IT Procurement and is a key member of the IT Procurement and Contract Management team that is committed to deliver excellent service, value and expertise to our internal partners and stakeholders through a managed process for IT Procurement. The successful candidate will be offered a one (1) year contract.

This role is crucial for IT Procurement team to provide support and guidance to IT globally for vendor selection and evaluation activities for each IT spend and contract review in accordance with the guidelines of the company’s policy and guidelines.

This role shall also support the IT Contract Management team in ensuring that all relevant IT contracts are uploaded in a timely manner onto the Global Contract Repository.

Roles & Responsibilities

IT Procurement

• Support IT team members globally on procurement activities including Request for Quote, Request for Proposal process and contract renewal/extension for all IT categories in a timely, consistent and quality manner in accordance with IT guidelines, company’s policy and guidelines.
• Ensure timely update, accuracy and completeness of electronic procurement approval process and IT Procurement SharePoint site.
• Prepare and support Request for Quote with the requestor including review of RFQ documents.
• Hands-on knowledge of Request for Proposal (RFP) activities and support IT Procurement Manager on the required tasks of each RFP.
• Carry out vendor contract review and negotiation with Finance, Global Risk, Legal, Tax and Treasury.
• Tracks closely on the completion status of each procurement request and contract review.
• Works closely with the IT owners on the procurement audit activities.

Vendor Management

• Support vendor contract review and negotiation.
• Liaise and coordinate vendors in the RFQ and RFP process.

Business Engagement

• Carry out vendor contract review and negotiation with Finance, Global Risk, Legal, Tax and Treasury.
• Where applicable, liaise and work with business users for business-led RFP process.
• Where applicable, liaise with business users and facilitate the vendor contract review and negotiation.

People

• Collaborate and work closely with IT owners on their procurement requirements and requests.
• Ability to translate technical IT procurement requests to layman words when raising the request for contract review.
• Monitor, track and drive prompt completion of contract review.
• Where applicable, liaise with business users and facilitate the vendor contract review and negotiation.

Qualification

• Diploma in disciplines related to Business, Information Technology, or related disciplines.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience in procure-to-pay activities for IT categories.
• Must have strong hands-on skills and knowledge on RFQ and RFP for IT categories.
• Must possess knowledge or industry experience in the above areas.
• Must be detail oriented.
• Essential to be independent and to have interpersonal skills in vendor management.
• Have experience in contract negotiation.
• Have some sourcing experience in supporting IT team for assessment of purchasing needs, conducting market research and identification of potential vendors.