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Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities
  • You will provide sourcing support as assigned by the Delivery Sourcing Manager and Client Category Lead and contribute to operational levels of excellence.
  • You will own primary responsibility to achieve client success against all contractual commitments at a category level.
  • You will be responsible to understand category deliverables, savings commitments, milestones, and obligations– includes supporting reporting, analytical readouts that recognize opportunities to improve.
  • You will contribute to integrated sourcing strategy which delivers savings and drives category transformation through time. Deliver and execute on sourcing events to support the strategy, including tail spend management and supplier consolidation.
  • You will communicate and negotiate with clients and suppliers through all levels of organization, primary interface to key category client stakeholders.
  • You will have the responsibility for achieving best overall value for IBM’s client when acquiring or contracting for goods and services.
  • You will develop and maintain effective relationships with key client stakeholders, to understand and interpret their requirements and longer term strategies to ensure procurement can meet and exceed where possible these requirements.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent post-secondary experience
  • At least 2-5 years of sourcing related experience preferably in indirect procurement categories, specifically in the Marketing category
  • Fluent English language skills
  • Demonstrated negotiation expertise
  • Supplier relationship management expertise
  • Strong communication and client facing skills
  • Proactive character and collaboration/teaming techniques
  • Able to juggle multiple priorities in a matrix environment
  • Apply Business Controls Requirements
  • Apply skills to ensure high client and stakeholder satisfaction
Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with the following are bonus points, but not necessary. You can learn them at IBM: 

  • Technology: Ariba, SAP, Coupa, MS Office suite, Outlook
  • Experience with dashboards, data and reporting
  • Category specific expertise


The subsequent skills are considered advantageous:

  • Master degree
  • End to end sourcing processes background
  • Fluency in European languages: German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish etc. 
  • Marketing category expertise

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation.  We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM’s financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk. Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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