Sr. Procurement Specialist

Immediate need for a talented

• Leads contractual and commercial negotiations with new and existing Professional Services, Software, SaaS and other services and commodity provider vendors.
• Ensures proper purchasing involvement in all major company vendor engagements and executes vendor management practice with strategic vendors of the organization.
• Promotes savings and other value-add through proactive negotiations of new agreements and renewals and by leading benchmarking activity to perform market comparison of supplier rates and cost models. Tasked with executing the procurement strategies for the organization.
• Actively participates in the establishment, communication and implementation of business goals and procurement improvements.
• Establishes global collaboration and proper alignment with Marketing, Customer Services, IT, Finance, Legal and Operations.
• Ensures all procurement activities are following the Global Procurement policy and procedures.
• Process contracts renewals and purchase orders.

• A minimum of 6+ years of experience in procurement sourcing in Professional Services area with desired knowledge of software license and SaaS terms including negotiating contracts (new agreements/renewals), vendor management practices, and benchmarking/cost modeling.
• Highly proactive, flexible, organized and with excellent time management skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, activities, and intense workloads with short timeframes and unplanned requests.
• Ability to work independently with a strong attention to detail, and a thorough, quality of work output.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional, complex environment.
• Successful completion of a background screening process including, but not limited to, employment verifications, criminal search, OFAC, SS Verification, as well as credit and drug screening, where applicable and in accordance with federal and local regulations.
• Ability to travel domestically at minimum once per month if working remote.
• The ability to obtain the necessary credit line required to travel.