Operations Risk Business Partner

Strategic Sourcing Partner Make sure to apply quickly in order to maximise your chances of being considered for an interview Read the complete job description below. - Technology page is loaded## Strategic Sourcing Partner - Technologylocations: Seattle, WAtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 4 Days Agojob requisition id: B021293**The Foundation **We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. The Team **The vision of Global Financial & Accounting Services (GFAS) is to provide innovative and scalable global business solutions in accounting, tax, payroll, treasury, sourcing, procurement and financial operations while safeguarding the reputation of the foundation and our related entities, with the highest standards of integrity and operational excellence. GFAS is a team within the Finance organization at the foundation and an important part of the operations function. Operations supports and enables the six program divisions to make investments and to run effectively and efficiently. As a function, Finance employs approximately 200 full-time employees (FTEs). The GFAS team is significant (45+ FTEs) and continues to scale up to support the increasing breadth and complexity of global operations for the foundation and its affiliated entities. As a new integral function of GFAS, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) is building a team that partners with the business to procure competitive vendors, drive negotiations, and align internal contracting requirements. SS&P connects spend analysis, data-driven vendor selection with diversity in mind, and ongoing engagement with vendors to increase purchasing power to deliver value and mitigate risk. As a function, SS&P is a new business-enabling team who partners with Contract Services, Finance, Information Security, HR, Legal, Accounting and others to ensure our vendor procurement process is transparent, balances risk and gives time back to business partners to focus on their impactful work in the foundation. **Your Role **Reporting to the Head of Strategic Sourcing of SS&P, the Strategic Sourcing Partner - Technology will join a team whose primary responsibilities include strategic sourcing, category and vendor management, ensuring adherence to applicable procurement and foundation policies and processes and general contracting duties.You will partner closely with the Head of Strategic Sourcing to lead complex sourcing initiatives through collaboration with business partners, including Legal. This role manages all aspects of the IT source to contracting process, negotiating rate cards, running RFPs (Request for Proposal) when required, facilitating the vendor selection process & supporting SS&P with the build out of new processes, workflows, and various applications (or tools, templates) used to support the source to pay process.The ideal candidate has strategic sourcing experience, excellent interpersonal skills, and will have directly worked with Software, Hardware, and IT Professional Services. They are passionate about delivering high-quality work individually and through others. The SS&P team is looking for someone who can get going quickly to manage multiple responsibilities while producing high-quality work. **RFx, vendor management, stakeholders management etc.) across foundation technology needs * Support the maturity of category sourcing strategy for software, hardware, and IT professional services * Represent SS&P for foundation needs of SW/HW/SaaS/IaaS/PaaS, IT Professional Services * Help set goals and carry out plans aligned with overall SS&P vision * Partner with business owners and collaborators on RFPs, new contracts, and renewals * Collaborate with partners to develop requirements, project plans and implementation plans * Establish and track key performance indicators and present progress to senior management * Lead and facilitate performance conversations with vendors as needed * Educate partners on overall Source to Contract process and value proposition of Sourcing team * Develop adoption strategies for preferred vendor programs * Focus on strategic work while still driving outcomes through a buy-desk and outsource service provider for lower risk, lower complexity items and ensuring approach and outputs are aligned with overall strategy * Role will focus on North America but will also support initiatives globally * Execute on strategic plans to advance short- and long-term SS&P goals * Orchestrate the change management process with internal partners and external vendors * Build partnerships with attorneys and form relationships in a complex environment * Leverage data (IE. Spend, contract, market research) to build consensus or influence key customers * Support contract review by facilitating discussions with vendors and partners (i.e. GCS, Legal, InfoSec)* Manage IT punchout catalog to ensure it improves quick purchase authority along with competitive pricing * Work with team members and finance partners to build upstream pipeline of work and build plans to prioritize, introduce competition where appropriate, and limit last minute urgent requests as much as possible **Your Experience *** Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and minimum 7+ years of combined IT procurement experience (Sourcing & Procurement experience) with strong negotiating, contracting and category management expertise * Solid understanding of systems like Coupa, D&B (Dun & Bradstreet), Docusign, Concur, Dynamics, etc. * Demonstrable experience managing 'Fast Buy' channels and preferred vendor programs and vendor punchouts, for expediting purchasing for low-risk commodities and vendors * Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment while managing various priorities to meet multiple deadlines * Must exhibit strong service excellence, detail orientation, and excel in problem solving. xmcpwfu * Tech savvy and has a strong interest and proven success in working with technology (including new software tools, Chat GPT, Co-Pilot, systems implementations)* Experience discovering new vendors and negotiating contracts with established or new vendors across Info Security, SAAS (Software as a Service), and IT professional services. * Demonstrated success in working collaboratively across multiple businesses, functions or work groups * Demonstrated SME (Subject Matter Expert) in IT procurement with experience working with IT, Legal, and Finance to execute & negotiate vendor contracts * Analytical and data focused approach that is able to provide actionable insights gleaned from data * Comfortable using AI tools (i.e. ChatGPT, Co-Pilot)* Must exhibit strong service excellence, detail orientation, and excel in problem solving * Collaboration mentality; helps reinforce a "we" not a "me" culture * Advanced degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field such as Business, Technology, Economics or Supply Chain preferred but not requiredMust be able to legally #