Strategic Sourcing Contractor (Senior Associate) - 184

Job Title: Strategic Sourcing Contractor (Senior Associate) - 184

Location with zip code: Jersey City, NJ 07310, Tampa, FL 33647 (Hybrid – 3 days onsite/week)

Duration: Contract, Until June 2027

Summary:

• The IT Strategic Sourcing Senior Associate is responsible for supporting the execution of the company's overall strategic sourcing strategy across all the IT portfolio. This role will support the development and execution of RFPs/RFQs, contract negotiations, and related sourcing activities for procurement requests across the company.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Sourcing team's partnership with the business customers to deliver on the organizational sourcing strategy to meet DTCC's financial and operational control objectives.
• Manage relationships with suppliers to foster strategic partnerships that enable continuous value-delivery.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of the strategic sourcing (including RFx), contracting, and downstream procurement workflow.
• Pro-actively manage renewals to drive savings and mitigate business disruptions.
• Participate in value driven QBRs for key IT vendors
• Leverage spend and contract data to identify savings and efficiency opportunities.
• Lead sourcing projects by identifying clear objectives that consider financial, risk, and operational benefits for DTCC.
• Continuously develop subject matter expertise via benchmarking/research, industry/peer collaboration, training, and client feedback
• Conduct negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms, pricing, and contracts while ensuring alignment with DTCC goals.
• Review requests via centralized intake tool and gather requirements from business clients.
• Review supplier proposals and facilitate process for final vendor selection with appropriate customers
• Conduct negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms, pricing, and contracts while ensuring alignment with DTCC goals
• Initiate supplier onboarding process and coordinate with suppliers to facilitate onboarding process; manage any required troubleshooting
• Coordinate with customers to provide general insight to current request status and expected timeline
• Work closely with corresponding Sourcing Directors to ensure comprehensive understanding of category strategy, requirements and targets
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; increases appropriately

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 7 years of IT Strategic Sourcing and Category Mgmt. at a global organization, preferably in financial services.

• Experience and proven success developing RFXs and negotiating HW, software, telecom/networking, private cloud, public cloud, and IT professional services contracts.
• Knowledge of enterprise IT vendors as well as emerging technology providers.
• Strong organizational competency with the ability to independently manage competing priorities.
• Comfortable with organization change and transformation.

About our Company: -

22nd Century Technologies, Inc., is one of the fastest growing IT Service Integrator and Workforce Solution companies in the United States. Founded in 1997, 22nd Century Technologies is a Certified National Minority Business Enterprise with 6,000+ people including 600+ Cyber SMEs nationwide supporting our customers in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. With HQs in Somerset, NJ and Mclean, VA, 22nd Century has 14 offices throughout the United States. As part of our unrelenting focus on quality and compliance, 22nd Century Technologies delivery is based on Certified Matured Processes including CMMI L3 Dev & SVC, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001 quality processes. With a strong focus on the public sector, 22nd Century currently holds government contracts with 14 out of 15 Federal Executive agencies including DoD, 37 other Federal agencies, 50 States, 115+ Local agencies, and 37 School Districts. In the last three years, we have expanded our services to Fortune 500 and other commercial clients and currently support 80+ commercial clients.

Recognized among Best Company to Work For by Forbes, 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., consistently exceeds our clients expectations by focusing on their absolute satisfaction with jobs while keeping our employees motivated. 22nd Century Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and s & all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.