Responsibilities relationship management: proactively foster effective collaboration and ensure strong communication with key client stakeholders and colleagues in and across the region(s) to deliver defined business goals. Develop key client stakeholder matrix per category/location, maintaining regular engagement and driving high levels of client engagement and satisfaction. Ensure appropriate supplier relationship management for assigned suppliers. Act as key contact person for it category with expertise on one sub-categories (hw, sw, saas, network, telecom, co-lo) and sourcing initiatives. Sourcing planning perform spend and contract analysis to identify sourcing and cost reduction opportunities. Ability to formulate category specific cost / license / service models for appropriate business needs. Working with clients and colleagues, define and implement it strategies and sourcing area plans for global and regional strategies. Management of sourcing initiatives lead and execute it (hw, sw, saas, network, telecom, co-lo) sourcing projects from end-to-end in line with agreed timelines and service quality. Deliver allocated savings target as assigned to categories and locations though the effective management of sourcing initiatives, with proper tracking and reporting of savings achievements. Adhere to defined sourcing policies and processes. Ensure a high-level of ethics in supplier and / or client engagements. Main responsibilities will include ability to work independently as well as being a team-player as part of a cross functional team. Strong sourcing and contracting experience and knowledge of procurement of the following sub-categories: it infrastructure products and services, office it products and services, cloud and datacenter services, and saas and license contracting deep understanding of license model, service models, and it – applications and infrastructure. Ability to negotiate and maintain relationships with third-party it vendors, such as google, aws, unisys, servicenow, informatica, sap, tata, wipro, who can provide the licenses / services highly competent in negotiations and contract knowledge with a strong ability to converse, negotiate with suppliers (preferably it vendors) / clients, and review contracts in english. Strong project management experience. Experienced in conducting tenders (request for information/proposal/quotation). Cross-category sourcing experience will be advantageous join a truly global team. We offer a dynamic and international environment where high performance meets real purpose. We're proud to be great place to work-certified and even prouder of the people who make that possible. Let’s shape the future of procurement - together. Information for agencies: applications sent or uploaded by placement agencies or similar are not desired, will therefore not be considered and will be deleted.