# IT Strategic Sourcing (Sr Associate) - Jersey City, NJ & Tampa, FL

**Company:** [StradIT](null/companies/gUMYmaPRJguCYquNxEjRoL.md)
**Location:** Jersey City, United States
**Workplace:** hybrid

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## Description

**Role: IT Strategic Sourcing (Sr Associate)**

**Employment: W2 only**

**Experience: 7 to 12 years**

**Locations: Jersey City, NJ & Tampa, FL**

**Work mode: Hybrid**

**Primary Responsibilities:**  
 

-   Support the Sourcing team’s partnership with the business customers to deliver on the organizational sourcing strategy to meet financial and operational control objectives.
-   Manage relationships with suppliers to foster strategic partnerships that enable continuous value-delivery.
-   Oversee the full lifecycle of the strategic sourcing (including RFx), contracting, and downstream procurement workflow.
-   Pro-actively manage renewals to drive savings and mitigate business disruptions.
-   Participate in value driven QBRs for key IT vendors
-   Leverage spend and contract data to identify savings and efficiency opportunities.
-   Lead sourcing projects by identifying clear objectives that consider financial, risk, and operational benefits.
-   Continuously develop subject matter expertise via benchmarking/research, industry/peer collaboration, training, and client feedback
-   Conduct negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms, pricing, and contracts while ensuring alignment with goals.
-   Review requests via centralized intake tool and gather requirements from business clients.
-   Review supplier proposals and facilitate process for final vendor selection with appropriate customers
-   Conduct negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms, pricing, and contracts while ensuring alignment with goals
-   Initiate supplier onboarding process and coordinate with suppliers to facilitate onboarding process; manage any required troubleshooting
-   Coordinate with customers to provide general insight to current request status and expected timeline
-   Work closely with corresponding Sourcing Directors to ensure comprehensive understanding of category strategy, requirements and targets

-   Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; increases appropriately

**Qualifications:**

-   Minimum of 6 years of related experience
-   Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

**Talents Needed for Success:**

-   Minimum of 7 years of IT Strategic Sourcing and Category Mgmt. at a global organization, preferably in financial services.
-   Experience and proven success developing RFXs and negotiating HW, software, telecom/networking, private cloud, public cloud, and IT professional services contracts.
-   Knowledge of enterprise IT vendors as well as emerging technology providers.
-   Strong organizational competency with the ability to independently manage competing priorities.
-   Comfortable with organization change and transformation.