IT Procurement, Senior Analyst

The Senior IT Procurement Analyst will help IT teams within Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) to manage their growth and provide a trusted source to assist with critical infrastructure purchases, day-to-day procurement activities, and cost-savings initiatives. In addition, the Senior IT Procurement Analyst will develop MRO’s software asset management inventory system and related workflows to create a centralized repository of all software assets. The ideal candidate has a broad array of finance, procurement, or technical experience capable of navigating unique teams, products, platforms, and licensing models to avoid service failures related to procurement domains (such as having inadequate licensing tied to a critical project) and unlock value in optimizing our licensing structure, tiers, benefits, co-terminations, and process refinement.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• License Management: Oversee and manage software license renewals, ensuring compliance with licensing agreements and optimizing license usage. Familiar with large licensing models such as CSP/NCE and able to help drive discussion and make recommendations with respect to the best models to pursue for MRO.
• Software Asset Management: Develop and manage MRO’s software asset management solution and workflows. Ensure software purchase dates, invoices, owners, and seat counts are properly documented.
• Procurement Coordination: Partner with ETS teams to coordinate IT purchases, ensuring timely acquisition of necessary technology and services. Evaluate existing workflows to execute purchases and recommend changes to reduce time to receipt.
• Financial Collaboration: Work closely with finance teams and the FP&A Director to obtain necessary approvals and manage budget allocations for IT purchases. Educate and evangelize the proper due diligence and approval workflows to ETS teams.
• Cost-Savings Evaluation: Identify and evaluate opportunities for cost savings across ETS domains. This includes excess licensing, duplicative or competitive solutions, or abandoned products.
• Vendor Management: Manage day-to-day vendor relationships, such as coordinating regular QBRs, aligning on process, or expediting critical purchases.
• Platform Utilization: Leverage vendor and finance portals to manage all aspects of IT procurement, such as ZIP (payment workflows), Atlassian, Microsoft, and Adobe. Support needs for documentation and reporting using these portals such as user exports, ‘clean-up’ activities, or related.
• Project Management: Handle multiple projects, vendors, timelines, and stakeholders concurrently, ensuring that all procurement activities align with organizational goals and timelines. This can include large project roll-outs with procurement components, such as corporate acquisition or divestiture with subsequent service, software, or vendor alignments.
  
  
  

SKILLS|EXPERIENCE:



General Skills:

• Client management or previous support experience a plus.
• Able to communicate with broad audiences (technical, non-technical, and financial) in written and verbal formats.
• Ability to understand general requirements, especially at a leadership level, and translate them into actionable tasks.
• Able to build strong interpersonal relationships with colleagues working remotely throughout the US and India.
• Basic financial skillsets (such as calculating the total cost of a piece of software over three years) are required.
• Self-starter able to independently identify areas of need and work to address
  
  
  

Technical/Domain Skills:

• Experience with JIRA Service Management or comparable ITSM tool a plus.
• Experience with software asset management tools a plus.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, and Windows 11 required.
• General IT savvy and interested in learning about new technologies.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Finance/Accounting, or equivalent professional experience is required.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications: Relevant certifications in project management or vendor-level certificates or training are a plus.