Strategic Sourcing Specialist, IT

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🕒 May 14

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iShare Inc.

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

B2B • Enterprise

iShare Inc. is a New Jersey–based boutique IT consulting firm that provides strategic advisory, software development, and staffing services focused on helping organizations adopt the right technologies for business improvement and transformation. The firm emphasizes practical, people-centered consulting—guided architecture, automation, BI, and information security—delivered by senior leaders with deep enterprise experience across industries such as chemicals/manufacturing, healthcare, software, and professional services. iShare positions itself as a trusted, hands-on B2B partner offering white‑glove service and industry-aware IT solutions to mid-market and enterprise clients across the US.

📋 Description

• Own assigned Professional services and IT spend categories (e.g., Consulting, SaaS, Cloud/Infrastructure, End-User Devices, Managed Services); • Run end-to-end RFI/RFP/RFQ cycles (requirements, scoring, supplier Q&A, demos, commercial analysis), and down-select vendors. • Lead commercial and contractual negotiations (pricing, rate cards, milestones, SLAs, service credits, EULA terms, data privacy, security exhibits, and renewals). • Partner with Legal/InfoSec/Privacy to finalize MSAs, SOWs, DPAs, SLAs, and ensure compliance (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA as applicable). • Deliver measurable savings, cost avoidance, and improved TCO; validate and document benefits with Finance (should-cost models, benchmarking, and clean-sheeting where relevant). • Execute vendor due diligence, performance scorecards, QBRs, and corrective action plans; support rapid supplier onboarding. • Rationalize licenses, right-size entitlements, avoid shelf-ware; optimize term lengths, uplift caps, and renewals calendars. • Translate business needs into sourcing plans; facilitate decision meetings; provide clear market intel and options trade-offs. • Maintain sourcing pipeline, dashboards, and contract repositories; ensure clean data for audit and reporting.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of IT sourcing/ Professional services sourcing experience with demonstrated category management ownership. • Proven success running competitive events and negotiating complex IT agreements (SaaS, cloud/IaaS, software licenses, managed services, hardware). • Strong command of contract constructs (MSA/SOW, SLAs/service credits, termination, indemnities, liability caps, audit, data privacy/security, IP). • Comfort with supplier risk and compliance reviews in partnership with Legal/InfoSec/Privacy. • Data-driven: pricing analysis, TCO, scenario modeling, and savings/benefits tracking.

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional services procurement • Category management