Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, IT Services

Strategic Sourcing\n\n* 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.\n* 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\n* Collaborate with  IT/Legal stakeholders to assess, understand, and prioritize business needs to optimize value with WD’s supply base\n* 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\n* 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\n* Analyze total costs, assist business functions with ROI analysis, price and rate benchmarking and negotiate favorable business terms to leverage Western Digital purchasing power\n* Research market intelligence to understand cost drivers and market trends\n\nCategory Management\n\n* 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\n* Cultivate, enhance, and deepen cross functional stakeholder relationships  at all levels serving as the  subject matter expert on behalf of the  procurement organization\n* 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\n\nSupplier Management\n\n* Manage supplier relationships with a focus on supply/contract and cost management\n* Lead supplier performance business reviews  on a quarterly basis to enhance performance delivery from strategic partners\n* Mediate supplier issues and resolve supplier contract disputes as needed\n* Develop supplier rationalization entitlements for each category\n\nContract Management\n\n* Evaluate processes and recommend improvements to standardize lifecycle contract and sourcing processes and systems\n* Ensure pricing & deliverables as negotiated are included in the contract; coordinate comparison of proposals and final contract terms\n* Act as liaison between Legal and the business