Consulting Manager - IT Procurement Focused
Insight Sourcing Group, United States
Job Description
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If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that sourcing matters! Remember product shortages and empty store shelves? Whether identifying opportunities to reduce clients’ costs and environmental impacts or proposing innovative solutions that curb the effect of soaring prices and longer lead times, Insight Sourcing Group’s (ISG) cost optimization and procurement-related services deliver tangible business results for our clients while also enhancing the employee experience, customer satisfaction, and community impact.
The Role of Manager, IT Center of Excellence
The Manager will have a dedicated focus on ISG’s IT Center of Excellence to support all aspects of client-facing IT sourcing and cost optimization projects. The Manager will be expected to work closely with clients and suppliers to drive project initiatives and will lead consulting, problem solving, project management and data analysis that will be the basis for strategic client decision making. Further, the Manager will play an important role in deepening the expertise of ISG’s IT Center of Excellence and capturing knowledge to support business development opportunities while helping scale ISG’s IT capabilities.
Typical client-facing projects would involve IT within the context of:
- Strategic sourcing and cost optimization (both within a company and across a portfolio of companies)
- Managed service support for strategic negotiations and software renewal pipeline
- Procurement opportunity assessment and opportunity roadmap
- Procurement transformation
- Spend analytics
- Make vs. buy decision analysis
- Benchmarking and best practices implementation
Requirements
The ideal candidate possesses some experience and exposure to IT procurement and/or negotiations across areas such as IT Services amp; Labor, IT Infrastructure, IT Software, and Telecommunications. The Manager will be expected to infuse ISG’s consulting business with their expertise across clients’ IT spend stacks while building upon their current IT Procurement base by demonstrating a strong aptitude for learning.
Specific Responsibilities include:
- Project Execution
- Ensure effective delivery of client project work and client deliverables through strong project management, team management, and client management skills
- Create robust sourcing strategies and recommendations
- Provide IT thought leadership and benchmarking
- Manage ISG project support resources and coordinate with subject matter experts within and outside of the firm
- Develop and nurture relationships with clients
- Work with contractors, consultants, and internal /external resources to align priorities, accomplish objectives, and satisfy all stakeholders
- Facilitate development of project plans and overall project management to ensure effective delivery of client project work and client deliverables
- Contribute to ISG’s strategic decisions and direction
- Exhibit?integrity in decisions and firm relationships
- Achieve excellence and dependability through the execution of projects and initiatives
- Limited travel, as needed
- Business Development
- Support sales calls
- Develop sales-support materials
- Provide IT thought leadership
- Support development and review of client IT Spend summaries
- Support development of new products and service offerings within IT practice
- Work with team to identify and assess opportunities for savings and cost optimization through various IT sourcing levers
- Practice Development
- Create and curate deliverable content (POV slides, case studies, whitepapers, etc.) to capture IT category knowledge and ultimately support internal knowledge share and business development
- Develop and execute strategies to aggregate data for ongoing benchmarking, insight generation, and data analysis
- Assist with ongoing development and management of intellectual capital
Qualifications
- Strategic sourcing experience AND a consulting background are strongly sought
- 6-12 years of relevant business experience
- Strong work ethic and high level of integrity
- Demonstrated project management, consulting, leadership and analytical skills
- Procurement and strategic sourcing experience, including exposure to IT negotiations
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written), including the ability to present comfortably to senior executives
- Solid analytical skills, including the ability to manage resources performi