Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, IT Services

Western Digital•San Jose, CA

16h

About The Position

WD is seeking a Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, IT Services to develop and support the overall vision, strategy, and execution plan for the IT Sourcing function. This role aims to achieve deeper alignment with stakeholders to pursue business strategies in innovation, agility, and supply reliability. The position involves conducting RFPs, leading cross-functional teams through supplier selection processes with effective scoring criteria, and collaborating with IT/Legal stakeholders to assess and prioritize business needs for optimizing value with WD’s supply base. The role also requires conducting spend/contract/proposal analysis for IT Services, computer hardware, servers, data center, and telecom services, and presenting recommendations to Sourcing and IT leadership. Additionally, the Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager will lead negotiations on commercial procurement agreements, analyze total costs, assist with ROI analysis, price and rate benchmarking, and research market intelligence to understand cost drivers and market trends. The Category Management aspect involves developing, refining, and implementing category strategies and tactics to procure technology products and services at the highest value benefit to the company. This includes cultivating and deepening cross-functional stakeholder relationships, serving as a subject matter expert, and monitoring internal/external trends to identify actionable opportunities. The Supplier Management component focuses on managing supplier relationships with an emphasis on supply/contract and cost management, leading supplier performance business reviews, and mediating supplier issues and contract disputes. Contract Management involves evaluating processes, recommending improvements for standardized lifecycle contract and sourcing processes, ensuring negotiated pricing and deliverables are included in contracts, and acting as a liaison between Legal and the business.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with minimum 0-10+ years of experience in indirect strategic sourcing with a multi-national organization with an emphasis in IT Services and IT hardware
Extensive experience leading sourcing initiatives of all kinds (e.g., rapid sourcing, targeted negotiations, complex category strategies, supplier relationship management, outsourcing)
Contract Negotiation / Vendor Mgmt. / Influencing skills required
Experience and expertise with sourcing & contracting ERP tools (SAP and/or Oracle)
Self-motivated, flexible, and creative leader, able to prioritize, multi-task, and work in a fast-paced and demanding environment.
Skilled negotiator with experience developing and executing complex negotiation strategies.
Strong leadership presence with ability to garner respect through sound technical analysis, business judgment and clear decision-making.
Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to lead, interact with, influence, resolve conflict and drive decisions among individuals from a variety of cultures and disciplines.
Excellent analytical, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
Proficient with Microsoft Office applications: Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Nice To Haves

MBA or JD preferred
Consulting experience a plus

Responsibilities

Develops and support the overall vision, strategy and execution plan for the IT Sourcing function.
Achieving deeper alignment with stakeholders to pursue business strategies in innovation, agility and supply reliability.
Conduct RFP and lead cross functional teams through the selection process of preferred suppliers with effective scoring criteria to critically evaluate supplier proposals in accordance within company policies
Collaborate with IT/Legal stakeholders to assess, understand, and prioritize business needs to optimize value with WD’s supply base
Conduct spend/contract/proposal analysis for IT Services, computer hardware, servers, data center and telecom services and present recommendation’s to Sourcing and IT leadership team
Lead negotiations on commercial procurement agreements, including, but not limited to, Master Agreements (MSA’s) , Statements of Work (SOW’s) , Change Orders (CO’s) balancing business deliverables, legal interests and pricing
Analyze total costs, assist business functions with ROI analysis, price and rate benchmarking and negotiate favorable business terms to leverage Western Digital purchasing power
Research market intelligence to understand cost drivers and market trends
Develop, refine and implement category strategies and tactics that enable the procurement of technology products and services at the highest value benefit to the company
Cultivate, enhance, and deepen cross functional stakeholder relationships at all levels serving as the subject matter expert on behalf of the procurement organization
Actively monitor internal/external trends, synthesize and distill the business intelligence into actionable opportunities and pipeline projects that can and will be delivered Western Digital’s bottom line on an ongoing basis
Manage supplier relationships with a focus on supply/contract and cost management
Lead supplier performance business reviews on a quarterly basis to enhance performance delivery from strategic partners
Mediate supplier issues and resolve supplier contract disputes as needed
Develop supplier rationalization entitlements for each category
Evaluate processes and recommend improvements to standardize lifecycle contract and sourcing processes and systems
Ensure pricing & deliverables as negotiated are included in the contract; coordinate comparison of proposals and final contract terms
Act as liaison between Legal and the business

Benefits

paid vacation time
paid sick leave
medical/dental/vision insurance
life, accident and disability insurance
tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
employee assistance program
other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
tuition reimbursement
transit
the Applause Program
employee stock purchase plan
the WD Savings 401(k) Plan