Manager -Technology Strategic Sourcing

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Position Description

The Manager, Technology Strategic Sourcing (TSS) will collaborate with diverse internal stakeholders across global Technology organizations to implement sourcing and procurement strategies that enhance value creation and business capabilities. This role will facilitate the acquisition of products and services across various technology categories from WBD’s partners. Key responsibilities include supplier selection, deal negotiation, contract management, and relationship management. This role will be based out of the WBD office in Hyderabad, India.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

Contract Negotiation & Escalations: 35%

• Gathering requirements from relevant WBD technology stakeholders.
• Reading, interpreting, understanding, and communicating technology contract terms.
• Partnering with legal to understand legal concepts and challenges, and problem solve to overcome challenges.
• Working with Finance and Business Stakeholders to identify budgetary constraints and develop desired set of commercial terms.
• Negotiating pricing and other commercial terms, as well as Statements of Work (SOW), Service Level Agreements (SLA), and other technical/operational documents.
• Owning overall responsibility for delivering finalized agreements in accordance with applicable timing requirements and other relevant factors.
• Serving as negotiation lead on deal terms including presenting position, counters, and developing fallbacks to produce material savings, improved terms and conditions, and risk reduction for WBD.

Processing & Operations: 30%

• Overseeing the request for proposal/quote/information (RFx) process and the competitive bid process for technology vendor selection, where applicable.
• Identifying and assessing technology vendors/products from a strategic perspective, to ensure that vendor/product selection is aligned with WBD Technology objectives.
• Assessing impact of technology purchases on other parts of the WBD organization, domestically and globally
• Ensuring compliance with WBD's sourcing & procurement policies.
• Identifying areas for process improvement, providing recommendations, and working within cross-functional teams to implement changes and improvements to create operational efficiency, savings, improve WBD partner relationships, or mitigate risks.

Sourcing & Operations Strategy: 20%

• Act as liaison for Technology Business Unit Stakeholders across Legal, Finance, Security, and Procurement and other WBD departments throughout contract negotiation and relationship management process.
• Implement knowledge of sourcing, contract negotiation and relationship management best practices and industry trends.
• Identify areas of opportunity in partner categories e.g., supplier and technology rationalizations

Relationship Management: 15%

• Managing WBD's business relationships with vendors, focusing on business issues, escalations, and other non-operational matters.
• Planning and managing vendor business reviews; analyzing and rating key vendors.
• Developing supplier debriefing materials to address performance issues and identify opportunities to improve relationships
• Preparing and delivering briefing documents, status reporting, and other data/reports on key WBD's technology relationships for senior management.
• Advising and consulting with clients on market trends, technology, new products, etc.
• Building strong internal client relationships and serve as a trusted advisor and partner.
• Maintaining accurate contracting data, vendor records, and transaction information.

Required Skills

• 5+ years in sourcing, procurement, business development, or related field preferably in the technology/media space
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field
• Demonstrated negotiation skills and deal analysis
• Advanced proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint
• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
• Develops financial models, including present mode of operation (PMO) and future mode of operation (FMO), for deal analysis and/or comparison between multiple vendors
• Exercises impartial judgment in selecting methods and evaluation criteria for obtaining results or evaluating supplier responses to RFXs
• Identify opportunities that could benefit multiple business units by understanding the landscape and impact of supplier's collective business across WBD.
• Stays current on market intelligence to assist in negotiation effectiveness.
• Must be flexible and adapt to the changing business needs of technology clients, be able to work well under pressure in a fast-paced and evolving environment
• Ability to own and drive deals to execution and will need to build collaborative relationships in multi-functional teams and have a problem-solving mindset to do so.
• Team player, self-starter, and quick learning with interpersonal and solution-oriented attitude and an ability to effectively operate with high energy and flexibility in a fast-paced cross functional environment; able to prioritize tasks and projects accordingly.
• Keen analytic, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to identify and deconstruct issues to overcome obstacles.
• Exceptional written and verbal communications/interpersonal skills, research/analytical skills, and presentation communication skills
• Highly organized, with strong attention to detail, clarity, accuracy, and conciseness
• Ability to work non-traditional hours, as needed, to support global clients.

Preferred

• MBA/JD preferred
• Experience using Ariba, Workday Strategic Sourcing/Scout preferred.
• Experience in the category of third-party professional services & contingent labor

Key Dimensions

Breadth of Responsibilities: Global

People/HR Mgt.

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