Zebra's Indirect Procurement department acts as a business partner  providing value add through collaboration with our businesses to achieve their goals by identifying and matching vendors with products/projects, creating flexible contracts with vendors that can change with your long term strategy, maintaining relationships with the suppliers to ensure suppliers a performing well, and is focused on maximizing total value for the cost.

The first of three Independent Contributor roles that builds category expertise, displays efficiency and effectiveness of regional project management, brings an innovation mindset and embraces the change for Indirect Procurement.

More specifically, the Software Sourcing and Procurement Specialist provides leadership and project management with the capability to manage and deliver regionally and globally focused projects from the simple to complex. 

Additionally, he/she possesses category experience across different Information Technology (focusing on Software primarily) categories, which allows for flexible work assignments.

Lastly, the key focus for the Software Sourcing and Procurement Specialist role is to support the business stakeholders to identify, define and execute key projects that support their defined business goals and objectives over a 12-36-month horizon. 

• Inspire trust and confidence with executive leadership.
• Engage with management team and stakeholder team members to drive strategic initiatives effectively balancing the RFx process and the TCO evaluation of suppliers against the business stakeholder’s requirements and supplier preferences.
• Ability to simultaneously manage 2-3 simple to moderately complex projects, supporting all deliverables, analytics, negotiations and project management details. These projects will generally be regional in scope and will support the business function’s goals and objectives.  Typically, these projects will have a single function impact and involve small sized project teams representing the primary business area.
• Work on full sourcing process– inclusive of supply market analysis, leverage spend, establishing business requirements, driving requirements, negotiating SOWs, contract terms, executing and monitoring complex contracts, conducting and monitoring supplier business reviews.
• Drive value through understanding market dynamics; understand the software industry; and the nuances of acquiring software.
• With little instruction, collaborate with key stakeholders to develop annual category management plan that incorporates the stakeholder’s strategy, goals, challenges, constraints and objectives with a 1 to 3-year time horizon – key outputs included but not limited to spend breakdown, strategic sourcing pipeline, process improvements, supplier rationalizations, targeted supplier business reviews, sourcing levers, etc.
• Ability to maintain accountability, delivering against timelines, building relationships and becoming a trusted advisor with business stakeholders, executive management and suppliers.
• Perform total cost of ownership evaluations, perform supply-market research and conduct pricing audits, and impact analysis for the pursuit of continuous cost improvements.
• Work collaboratively with suppliers and stakeholders to identify and execute continuous cost improvement programs and resolve strategic supplier performance issues to ensure business satisfaction.
• Contribute to measuring success, including savings, innovation related to process improvements, improved delivery and simplified processes
• Maintain a high level of product and industry awareness to keep current on best practices, new suppliers, market trends, etc.