Corporate Purchaser - Technology Vendor Management

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• Assist in the IT Service lifecycle management plan for all equipment, hardware, and software licensing.
• Assure software license compliance for all software titles and associated agreements.
• Manage multiple license types, software suites, entitlements, upgrade and downgrade of licenses to ensure best-fit licensing.
• Manage unallocated software licenses for reclamation, software counts for reconciliation and software discovery models for normalization.
• Import licenses and contracts information into the software asset management tool.
• Ensure the integrity and accuracy of the inventory and entitlement data.
• Determine license position for projects, true-ups and audits, and contract and license maintenance renewals using available financial and installation data.
• Provide information associated with litigation and software compliance, contracts, and EULAs.
• Identify, assess and manage risk-related areas in the contract execution process and support rigorous and effective risk management procedures.
• Collect and maintain accurate software licensing information to address budgeting, software compliance and inventory, contracts, and cost.
• Forecast IT asset investments and service costs.
• Perform financial analysis & reviews such as TCO and ROI on project requests to facilitate funding approval.
• Assist in the development of financial models, collect and evaluate data, make appropriate assumptions, analyze results and make recommendations.
• Support process improvements of the key financial systems, processes and metrics to support financial reporting.
• Establish internal standards, processes, and templates for working with vendors and automating processes where applicable.
• Understand IT vendor spending by category, cost center, region, and vendor.
• Ensure there are clear metrics across all key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure strong performance management.
• Assist with the collaboration of IT, Procurement, Legal, and Finance Services to maximize contract value and mitigate risk.
• Work proactively with IT Service Owners to identify areas of opportunity to assist procurement staff when negotiating with vendors to optimize the procurement of cost-effective acquisitions.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or related degree, and 3 years' experience, preferably with three or more years of experience in project management, asset management, finance, or supply chain, in a technology environment required.
• Applicable years of experience may be substituted for degree requirement.
• Ability to see 'big picture' strategic view as well as process details.
• Ability to work with various systems and data sources to gather and assimilate required information.
• Work experience with the Service Now platform is preferred.
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) experience is desired.
• IAITAM (CSAM, CITAM) preferred or equivalent certification.

This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.

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Administrative/Office Support

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Location:

US-MO-Kansas City

Schedule:

Full-time

Travel:
Yes, 5 % of the Time

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