Coblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Leading Strategic and Operational Procurement Teams, and Categories: • Cost Reduction and Efficiency • Stakeholder Engagement • Procurement Global Strategy Development • Compliance and Risk Management • Supplier Relationships and Contract Management • Procurement Performance Management • Spend Management and Optimization Procurement Governance, Tools and Strategy: • Procurement Processes and Policies • Procurement Compliance (e.g. with LKSG) • Procurement Strategy Process Governance • Procurement Tools rollout and ongoing management (e.g. Coupa, SAP Ariba, MSFT Dynamics) • Escalation contact for all Procurement Processes • Tools and Compliance topics Change Management: • Supplier & Process Impact Assessment • Cross-Functional Stakeholder Engagement • Procurement Process & Policy Standardization • Cost Saving Tracking & Other Benefits Monitoring • Business & Senior Management Communications
Responsible globally within CGM organization for IT-related services (Software Development, Cloud Hosting, Software and Infrastructure, IT-Consulting, Support, Implementation & Customization Services, also other), as well as some non-IT categories (Professional Services, Travel management/Hotels, etc.), building the categories strategy, managing categories development as well as implementing relevant sourcing initiatives and strategies. Promoting strategic initiatives and end-to-end procurement processes for the IT-Professional Services category, delivering value beyond the financial contribution. Developing effective, trustful business and personal relationships with senior stakeholders to ensure global standardization of sourcing strategies, processes and consolidation of purchases. Aligning strategies together with relevant business contacts, and acting as a trusted advisor to them to initiate strategic initiatives. Developing and managing strategic supplier relationships, and being responsible for the entire sourcing to contracting process in my area of responsibility, from managing business needs, defining sourcing strategies and selecting suppliers to leading negotiations, managing contracts. Co-leading the transformation process from Local Procurement to a Central/Global Procurement organization at CGM, working together with responsible team-members on the design and implementation of Procurement standards, processes and policies globally.
Main Target: leading the IT Licensing and Procurement team Accountable for (additionally to the responsibilities withing the previous role): • Delivery of IT Licensing & Procurement Service/Process to the Company (globally) in a healthy manner • Requests & Projects review, and assigning to the team-members based on priority/risk/business needs • Working with IT L&P team-members to ensure success of working in accordance to Licensing and Procurement process • Identifying new needs and adjust IT L&P roadmap, strategy and tactics accordingly • Bringing the best-practices into IT L&P day-to-day work, and improvement the Service as much as possible • Budgeting training & traveling planning for IT L&P Team • Quarterly/Annual performance reviews for IT L&P team members • Knowledge sharing between team-members to remove Single Points of Failure
Main responsibilities: 1. Assist in driving the Global IT Licensing and Asset team to ensure proper licensing compliance and ITAM standards are met 2. Assist with the Global IT Hardware and Software licensing and hardware agreements – new and existing renewals 3. Maintain assigned IT hardware and software agreements and rates with vendors Add. responsibilities: • Develop Go-To Market Strategies for large scale strategic Software applications and Hardware needs • Run Market Basket analysis on small scale Software and Hardware peripheral VAR’s and Co-lead strategic Hardware and Software RFP’s • Operate SRM programs with key suppliers such as Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, VMWare, Veeam and other licensing and agreements • Manage ongoing relationships with VAR’s • Identify ongoing demand management • Develop and enforce a strong compliance program for: - Software request approvals (Including ROI review and approval) - Purchases (Ensure end users are following a standardized P2P process) - Usage tracking and License optimization - Asset life cycle management (including maintenance for Software, and Check in Check out process for large end user Hardware) ensuring maximization of assets lifespan • Provide procurement and approvals as agreed upon for software and hardware purchases and renewals • Purchase and coordinate shipments • Coordinate recording of received orders • Record purchase orders in accounting system • Ensure proper coding for Purchase Orders • Support and follow IT Licensing and Asset management policies and procedures • Ensure a 100% accuracy entry ration • Perform internal self-audits and support external audits of hardware and software assets as required • Identify savings opportunities for purchases, renewals and software licensing
Responsible for a broad portfolio in the field of Digital & IT Sourcing as well as for developing and executing the sourcing strategies for several IT Infrastructure categories globally. Drive complex strategic initiatives and end-to-end sourcing processes for IT Software, Hardware, Services and Outsourcing/Outstaffing categories and deliver value beyond financial contribution. Develop effective, trustful, personal relationships with senior stakeholders, align strategies, and serve as a trusted advisor and responsible to initiate strategic initiatives that deliver value. Furthermore, develop and manage strategic vendor relationships, in close collaboration with the Vendor Management Office and own the source-to-contract process for the assigned areas of responsibility starting with managing the business demand, decide on sourcing strategies, supplier selection processes, negotiations, optimize costs and deliver savings. Main Projects Completed: VMWare ELA Renewal – 3 years agreement (RfP); Managed Printed Services Global Contract renewal – 5 years contract (RfP); WAN MPLS and Internet Connection Global Contract – 5 years agreement (RfP); around 20+ other Software/Hardware/Services/Outstaffing renewals, RfPs and new purchases (big, middle and small). Accountable for (additionally to the previous responsibilities): • Strategic sourcing and IT procurement globally • Contract negotiation for contracts of main/strategic vendors (VMWare, Broadcom/Symantec, HPE, etc.) as well as non-strategic • Implementation of the best-practices within the IT Sourcing and Procurement process • Assisting business divisions with spend estimation and budgeting • Demand analysis • Contracts review with involvement of Legal, Finance and Business owners • Running RfP/biddings • Preparation of offers & costs analytics for the best offer selection • Collaborating with IT Procurement team-members
Main responsibilities: 1. Outsourcing management: 2d/3d art, soft dev, mobile dev, web dev, game dev, audio, QA, etc. 2, Licenses procurement and support: SW licenses, In-game licenses. game engines, libraries, middleware, etc.. Contract management, validation and signing assistance (authoring contracts and templates, including SLA exhibits and statements of work). Monitoring contracts (status, execution, budget). Vendors search, bidding & negotiations. Vendors database creation, update and maintenance. Managing vendors relationships. Risk management. Serving as a service point on IT outsourcing for all Company's departments. Executing best practices in outsourcing and vendor performance management (metric and penalties for non-performance, alignment customer requirements to related vendor requirements, etc.) Managing required in-game licenses procurement (negotiations, contracts, purchase orders, archiving, etc.) Invoices review and payments processing (working with vendor to resolve any invoice discrepancies).
Main responsibilities: 1. Game License Procurement and support. 2. Outsourcing Vendor Management (2D/3D Art, Audio, QA, Game Development, Software Development): - Contract management: -- authoring of contract templates, including service level exhibits, statement of work and examples; -- providing of the examples that could include indemnification, intellectual property, force majeure, and amendments/exhibits/SOWs; -- managing the vendor to the contract and being creative when contracts don’t address certain issues (no contract covers every possible event). - Vendors database creation (JIRA, Confluence), update and support. - Managing vendor relationships in collaboration with business process owners and other risk/compliance groups. - Conducting regular knowledge gap analysis in conjunction with vendor(s) and working with vendor(s) to address any identified shortfalls. - Serving as a service point on IT outsourcing for the company departments. - Review and processing vendors' invoices. Working with vendor to resolve any invoice discrepancies. - Executing best practices in outsourcing and vendor performance management: -- developing and maintaining best in class knowledge of Information Technology Outsourcing and Strategic Sourcing; -- metric and penalties for non-performance; -- alignment of customer requirements to related vendor requirements; -- developing and providing process owners with regular updates to supplier performance; -- working with vendors and process owners to identify and resolve issues; -- driving continuous improvement efforts with vendors.
Areas of responsibility: - Game Licenses procurement and support; - Contracts coordination; - Invoice support; - Vendor database support; - Researches. Responsibilities: - Gathering, clarification and consolidation of company's needs in external game libraries; - Managing required game libraries procurement (negotiations, contracts, purchase orders, archiving...); - Updating all correspondent internal documentation; - Creation and support of Game licenses procurement database; - Negotiations with vendors on licensing types, volumes and discounts depending on Company's needs; - Collaboration with Company's departments and services in order to optimize process of licenses procurement; - Licenses and documents delivery tracking; - Preparing some parts of contractual documentation (on template basis); - Arranging smooth and transparent process of the components purchase process clearance (clarification of Legal, Technical and Financial aspects); - Monitoring contracts (status, execution, budget); - Contract validation and signing assistance; - Monitoring correspondence of invoices to contracts; - Working with vendor to resolve any invoice discrepancies; - Monitoring status of invoice payments with other departments; - Adding/updating info about vendors and projects statuses in vendors database; - Executing and analyzing vendor satisfaction surveys; - Doing required internet researches.
- development and management of global projects in HQ (8.2-1C Accounting, 1C 8.2 Salary and personnel management; implementation of Windows7/Windows Server 2008 (migration from Windows XP/Windows Server 2003), participation in development, management and localization of specific internal projects of company; - IT-projects development, manage the implementation of infrastructure solutions (network solutions, electrification, telecommunications, banking systems, telephony) in a newly-opened stores of “OBI”; - work coordination, controlling of work performance quality by subcontractors, equipment suppliers, service providers (“Intelligent Systems”, “Golden-Telecom”, “System Group”, “Data Group”, “Privat-Bank”, “SALD”, etc.) in “OBI” stores; - full control of the preparations for the opening of new stores in place connected with IT-infrastructure; - employees training, development of manuals and technical documentation for store systems and business applications; - local and remote administration of the shop and HQ systems, localization and emerging issues in software, workstations, server- systems and networks, Help-Desk; - participation in development and implementation processes of innovative ideas and solutions for the stores (design kitchen sets in stores, implementation of seller-calling system); - organization of IT-systems purchasing, tendering, preparation systems-, services- and equipment-purchasing contracts. Have excellent level of skills to: - planning, organization and control of the IT department’s activities; - budget planning; - preparation of reports on the tasks and work of all units of IT department; - tendering, negotiations; - administration of IT infrastructure; - participation in the development and maintenance projects; - optimization of systems and processes in order to minimize costs, increase productivity.