Corporate Planning & Management – Global Procurement, Strategic Sourcing Manager, Software/SaaS, Associate, Dallas

Goldman Sachs•Dallas, TX

11d

About The Position

The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm. The Strategic Sourcing team within Global Procurement is responsible for driving the execution of strategic priorities, including firm’s operational efficiency targets, as it relates to the Firm’s relationships with vendors. We partner with a wide range of stakeholders across the firm as we support spend categories across Technology, Professional Services, Legal, Corporate Workplace, Human Resources, and Marketing, among others. As a result, we are actively involved in the entirety of the vendor relationship lifecycle – from procurement to payment. This role will sit within the Technology category, where we partner with Engineering leadership as well as other stakeholders across the firm on all artificial intelligence (AI), software/SaaS, cloud compute, hardware, storage, telecommunications, multi-media, and co-location engagements. This role will report into the Software category leader.

Requirements

Analytical mindset
Intellectual curiosity
Diverse academic backgrounds
Extensive internal and external interfacing with a number of constituents
Implementation of best practices
Sound judgement

Responsibilities

Lead/participate in contract and commercial negotiations for technology-related products and services globally, with focus on software agreements, including both internally-hosted as well as vendor-hosted arrangements (SaaS/PaaS), while following vendor engagement model and adhering to firm’s vendor-related policies and practices.
Collaborate with various risk management partners, such as Legal, Finance, Information Security, Compliance, and others to ensure firm's vendor management policies and procedures are adhered to.
Create financial analysis of pending transactions, including review of vendor financial viability as well as total cost of ownership and return on investment analyses. May involve interfacing with outside research companies to create benchmarking models and identify cost savings opportunities.
Serve as an advisor to the business/technology groups in the areas of licensing and commercial/contractual/vendor risks, among others.
Lead/participate in license audits and certifications, in collaboration with other groups including end users, technology, legal, and others.
Liaise across Engineering leadership, business and relationship managers to identify and escalate vendor/client sensitivities, commercial and relationship opportunities.
Responsible for tracking of and reporting on strategic vendor management activities, spend and other trends of strategic vendors, understanding impact across firm/business units.