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Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesOracle
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Support the Global Sourcing Category Lead – Software in developing the overall spend category strategy with key stakeholders
- Manage and/or oversee category-wide efficiency and governance initiatives
- Manage and deliver new deals and renewals
- Influence appropriate sourcing strategies and activities
- Lead RFPs and renewals, including complex and high-profile commercial and contractual negotiations
- Interact with senior internal clients and senior external vendor representatives
- Create and present deal summaries and recommendations
- Work with cross-functional and cross-regional teams
- Maintain deal pipelines
- Provide commercial advisory services to key stakeholders
- Meet or exceed financial and non-financial performance targets
- Build collaborative stakeholder relationships
- Build supplier relationships and supplier management programs
- Drive supplier initiatives in coordination with business and corporate functions
- Support the ongoing development of Nomura’s Global Sourcing function
- Support Business Continuity plan execution and proactive operational risk management where applicable
- Motivate, organize, and develop team members
- Identify underlying problems and define future direction
- Evaluate options and prioritize actions or recommendations
- Promote knowledge sharing, inclusion, psychological safety, and risk culture
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Minimum 10 years of experience sourcing relevant spend categories in a blue-chip environment
- Proven track record leading commercial and contract activities
- CIPS or other professional Sourcing/Procurement qualification desirable
- Experience analyzing portfolio opportunities and delivering benefits
- Experience leading internal/market analysis, competitive bidding, and negotiation activities for regional and global agreements
- Experience renegotiating and extracting value from legacy/incumbent suppliers
- Knowledge of pricing and contracting mechanisms for global enterprise-level suppliers
- Excellent understanding of commercial levers and legal terms and conditions relating to Software contracts
- Knowledge of supply markets, supplier capabilities, and expected trends at geographic and global levels
- Experience negotiating enterprise software licensing agreements with Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, or similar
- Understanding of software license metrics and software asset management principles
- Staff management experience essential
- Strong commercial and contract negotiation skills
- Ability to influence senior external vendors and senior internal clients
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and manage a large volume of projects
- Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and drive projects to conclusion
- Experience in a banking environment may be advantageous but is not essential
- Cross-regional team experience is advantageous
Benefits
Comp & perks- Sign-on bonus
- Restricted stock units
- Discretionary awards
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Other benefits
- 401(k) eligibility
- Paid vacation time
- Paid sick time
- Paid parental leave
- Equal Opportunity Employer