The Procurement Professional has the responsibility to achieve best overall value for IBM when acquiring or contracting for goods, services and intellectual property assets. As such, your principal responsibilities are to:
• Ensure an effective procurement process is defined and operated;
• Advise and guide business on third party supplier commercial relationships;
• Develop and manage RFxes (Tenders/Requests for Purchase), including facilitating RFx response analysis and RFx assessment with stakeholder;
• Negotiate contract terms with supplier and liaise with legal staff where appropriate;
• Select suppliers and conduct a fair value determination;
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders;
• Maintain effective audit trails for all sourcing activities, end-to-end in IBM's tools;
• Create appropriate contract documentation, including flow down terms, mirroring of terms from customer contract to a vendor contract;
• Establish effective process indicators that demonstrate performance against these measurements;
• Track and monitor savings