Job details

Country

Mexico

State / Region / Province

Nuevo Léon

Work Location

Monterrey

Domain

Operations

Interest Group

Infy Mexico

Skills

Domain|Sourcing & Procurement|Procurement, Spend Analysis, Vendor Management

Company

Infosys Mexico

Requisition ID

119806BR

Job description

About Us
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

Infosys is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, spouse of protected veteran, or disability.

Role - Sourcing Lead

Education: Bachelor's Degree/MBA. Demonstrated academic achievement with qualifications in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Law or Science.

Experience:

• 8 to 12 years of Technology Strategic Sourcing (not transactional) experience with a focus in Software at a global company
• Category Management experience with an emphasis in Software, SaaS and Hosting including but not limited to various type of Software and related services including perpetual, term, subscription, and maintenance and support
• 8 to 12 years of Technology Procurement and Contract Management experience for leading large-scale, complex and/or regional/global categories of spend at the enterprise level. Experience negotiating and managing contracts (MSA and Commercial) for Software, SaaS, and Hosting agreements for a global organization.
• The role will be responsible for leading the charge to evaluate new suppliers, to negotiate current contracts with an emphasis on price, terms, quality, and to execute on consolidation opportunities. This individual would work closely with key stakeholders across the organizations to develop effective cost optimization strategies and implementation plans.

Behaviors & Attributes:

• Independent, self-motivated leader with a proven track record of proactively identifying process efficiencies, anticipating business needs, and implementing solutions across the organization
• Demonstrated ability to build strong trusted relationships with senior internal stakeholders
• Communicate and set expectations with stakeholders regarding anticipated timelines, savings, contract amendments, etc.
• Capable of leading sourcing teams specialized in source-to-contract work
• Excellent client management skills, able to communicate to the point in a quick and effective manner, ability to summarize information
• Strong negotiating skills and experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Strong Team building skills
• Deep domain knowledge in Sourcing & Procurement domain
• Quantitative Analysis experience (financial or price modeling-both creation of model itself and performing the analysis from which a negotiation strategy is determined, requires comprehension of complex business objectives and a high level of attention to detail) is required
• Mentoring and Coaching skills for Sourcing Specialists
• Capable of thinking critically at a situation and identifying opportunities
• Confident ability to priorities own work often within tight deadlines
• Ability to work with international teams and overseas stakeholders with proficiency
• Strong customer service orientation
• Strong Leadership qualities
• Results & outcome oriented
• Enthusiastic and able to drive own activities

Role Activities:

• Expert/proficient in Software procurement; end-to-end sourcing experience in other services categories such as Professional Services and Marketing is highly preferred
• Obtain stakeholder requirements, validate current understanding of business needs including current license entitlements, license usage, and cost allocation model. This requires a comprehensive understanding of complex business objectives and a high level of attention to detail.
• Create models and perform analysis to determine a negotiation strategy, comprehension of complex business objectives and maintain a high-level of attention to detail for the subcategories of spend you are responsible for
• Negotiation and management of Software and SaaS contracts of varying complexity, including financial, contractual (Terms and Conditions), and commercial terms
• Lead the negotiation process for Software and SaaS contracts, including engaging with suppliers, functional leaders, legal team, subject matter experts, leadership, as required.
• Drive annual productivity improvements and cost savings initiatives to targeted goals within respective Sub-Categories
• Provide RFx sourcing services for our clients based on predefined service levels, managing multiple simple and/or intermediate projects simultaneously
• Run various sourcing activities as assigned (e.g., RFx development, NDA management, supplier communication, negotiation, draft contracts and recommendation summarization)
• Gather and summarize bid requirements, prepare bid package and publish to suppliers using an eSourcing tool
• Research and identify suppliers as required (i.e. supplier market analysis)
• Project documentation (e.g. create project folders, spend and savings documentation/validation, status updates)
• Responsible for accuracy of contractual metadata within the GTP Contract Repository for your assigned Sub-Categories
• May participate in peer reviews for other team members projects and check for quality, consistency and compliance with Infosys quality methodology and client specific requirements
• Perform in-depth proposal analysis draw conclusions regarding supplier selection recommendations, present back to the requestor in a concise manner
• Follow the deliverable schedule for the team and ensure delivery of output within client timeframes and quality
• Proactively raise any source data issues early in the process
• Consistently seek process optimization & quality of service opportunities and proactively propose improvement suggestions
• Be able to interpret requests and determine what is required to achieve the desired goal
• Responsible for escalation management within your managed Sub-Category to address and resolve issues and quality concerns.
• Present to executive leadership as necessary
• Effective performance management of team of Sourcing Specialists
• Manage Team SLAs and KPIs as agreed with the client
• Lead Governance calls with client stakeholders
• Manage client escalations and rectify service delivery issues, both from short term and long-term perspective
• Proactively work on team ideation and constant process improvement as a Team Lead