Senior Analyst, Software Commodity

Overview

Senior Analyst / Team Lead in the Indirect Category Execution team, acting as a specialist in the facilities, logistics and operations category and executing sourcing strategies within that remit.

What you'll do

• Execute the category strategy for the assigned category, collaborating with key stakeholders, team members and leaders affected by the category.
• Develop RfX and provide input to the Category Performance framework, including metrics related to category performance; continuously track and monitor category health against strategy, goals and plan.
• Analyze spend across sub-categories, taking a broader strategic view to optimize overall output.
• Populate category cards detailing overall category strategies, preferred suppliers and business unit requirements for execution.
• Identify areas of opportunity to reduce waste, establish reduction targets, and execute continuous improvement and cost initiatives.
• Establish strong relationships with internal business partners, building an understanding of strategic business direction, requirements and priorities across assigned suppliers and/or spend categories.
• Rationalize specifications.
• Execute the fundamentals of sourcing and supplier engagement, including RFx, spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations and supplier consolidation.
• Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement strategies; maintain sourcing ethics in accordance with News Corp's global policies and methodologies.
• Work with senior cross-functional internal customers and the Business Sourcing Partner to define detailed business requirements, prioritize them and take them through the approval process.
• Execute change management within designated business units to increase utilization of best-practice sourcing and procurement solutions.
• Assist the Business Sourcing Partner in business unit capacity and demand planning and forecasting customer business unit demand.
• Support the evaluation, negotiation, selection and qualification of vendors.
• Support the negotiation of contracts with selected suppliers, leveraging tools, technology or supplier contract templates (including Software as a Service, Master Services Agreements, Master License and Service Agreements, Statements of Work, amendments), and negotiate global preferred supplier agreements following legal guidelines.
• Execute complex and strategic SOWs from creation through approval.
• Manage escalations to the legal department as needed and partner regularly with the contract management team.

What you'll need

• Bachelor of Arts or Sciences degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of global sourcing experience, specifically in the facilities, logistics and operations category.
• Minimum 2-3 years of demonstrated people management leadership experience.
• Minimum 2-3 years of sourcing transformation experience (e.g., significant prior experience in all elements of sourcing and category management).
• Embraces fact-based decision making; naturally seeks to leverage and/or integrate market data, spend analytics and cost modeling.
• Proven written and oral communicator, with strategic, analytical and interpersonal skills to act as an effective change agent, unlocking barriers to value for priority spend categories.
• Expert negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations.
• Strong project management skills, including adhering to stakeholder timelines and meeting management skills.
• Extensive knowledge of the basic types of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms.
• Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization and working easily in multi-business unit project settings; able to facilitate teamwork across corporate boundaries.
• Contract drafting experience and an excellent understanding of contractual terms, both commercially and legally.

Nice to have

• MBA.
• Certification in procurement such as CPSM or CSCP.

Details

• Full-time.
• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Reports to: Indirect Sourcing CE Lead - Sr. Mgr.
• Global operational scope.