Alliance Procurement Lead - Adobe (Asst Director)

The opportunity

The purpose of the global EY organization is to Build a Better Working World. The insights and services the organization provides help to drive long-term value for clients, people, and society and to build trust in the capital markets. An essential function under EY Business Enablement, Supply Chain Services (SCS) is a global team with more than 600 professionals in over 35 countries supporting the EY organization across the globe. This structure helps enable knowledge-sharing across categories and regions, streamlining efforts in seeking innovative suppliers that can provide exceptional client service to maximize SCS’s value for the EY organization and the world's supply chain.

A key component of SCS is Global Procurement, whose purpose is to drive significant synergies and value creation from sourcing to contract lifecycle management, deliver exceptional client experiences and build more vital collaboration to manage Technology, Talent, Alliances and Brand, Marketing and Communications (BMC) spend categories. We forge meaningful supplier relationships and strengthen supplier resilience to help EY maximize long-term value for its people, clients and communities.

The Alliances Procurement team build and strengthen our relationships across the EY Alliance ecosystem, ensuring visibility and value realization across our account base while supporting the building of new platforms and seamlessly shifting to protect EY investments. Alliances are co-branded, commercial business relationships between independent companies that combine innovative business capabilities to help create client value. 

Through this opportunity, you will support the EY-Adobe Alliance within Global Procurement. This Alliance designs and delivers transformative experience cloud solutions to drive advances in organizations’ digital transformation agendas. Supported by Adobe solutions across customer data, content and commerce, the EY and Adobe teams help organizations improve their marketing capabilities and analytics, enabling actionable insights that reduce cost and drive revenue

Your key responsibilities

• Be a senior contributor on an Alliances Procurement team, aligned to one or more strategic Alliances.
• Develop Alliance strategies for assigned suppliers in partnership with Alliance teams.
• Stakeholder and supplier relationship management
• Act as a senior strategic leader/contributor and trusted business advisor – manage complex transactions directly or indirectly, working closely with senior stakeholders to deliver successful results.
• Manage full lifecycle of contracts for assigned programs of work and key suppliers.
• Pro-actively manage contract negotiations for assigned projects
• Build and foster collaborative working relationships with internal business partners.
• Supporting and leading stakeholders through the Onboarding of Alliances Goods and Services end-to-end process.
• Socialization and facilitation of the Procurement policy and processes, ensuring that the project teams and stakeholders understand the value of the policy and adhere to it accordingly.
• Timely and frequent submission of management information, including project status and savings reporting.
• Supporting Supply Chain Services’ overall global strategies
• Facilitation of any needed market research to identify potential and develop existing Alliances, ensure competitive pricing and terms, etc.

Skills and attributes for success

• Experience with senior stakeholder engagement with the ability to collaboratively co-develop strategies and set and manage expectations.
• Comprehensive experience with negotiating contracts related to cloud-based solutions, software licensing & rationalization, and professional services
• Comprehensive experience with negotiating contracts globally and regionally.
• Experience of working in a Sourcing/Procurement/Supplier Management team in a complex and global environment.
• Strong influencing and networking skills as the organization relies on working in cross-functional teams across borders.
• Fluent, effective, transparent, and timely English communication skills required across multiple mediums (email, voice, IM, etc) in a global environment.
• The ability to independently manage and prioritize workload.
• Proficient organizational skills.
• Demonstrate a positive attitude and have an appetite for change.
• Provide exceptional Client Service.
• May assume counsellor responsibilities as part of the role at a future date.

To qualify for the role, you must have 

• 7 - 10 years’ experience of Alliance procurement or equivalent multi-pillar relationship management, with an emphasis on technology sourcing.
• Experience in a leadership position a plus.
• Business degree or equivalent a plus.
• Combination of work and experience may be considered.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• CPM (US), CIPS (UK) or similar Procurement certification is welcomed but not essential.
• Good knowledge of IT suppliers and emerging technologies.
• Experience working in an IT role as part of delivering technology solutions is a plus.

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What we look for

Successful team members are high energy individuals with experience working in a truly global, culturally diverse organization where change is embraced. Relationship building is key and excellent oral, written and communications skills in English is necessary to deliver Exceptional Client Service to our stakeholders.

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more. 

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.  

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