Commodity Management Advisor

About the Role

Celestica has a great opportunity for a Category Management Advisor for IT category. If you are looking to improve processes and policies to help us rebuild and transform into a modern, best in class procurement organization, this is the role for you! You will collaborate with business stakeholders and sourcing leaders to achieve quality, innovation and service levels. You will have the opportunity to improve current processes with a goal of cost reduction and improving the quality of the contracts. You will work independently without requiring supervision but, you will have a supportive and collaborative team to work with. You will have the opportunity to be bold in your approach to ensure customer satisfaction while managing the expectations of the stakeholders. If you demonstrate initiative, do not wait for direction to organize activities and projects and find ways of challenging existing terms, processes, practices and scope to benefit your customers, we want to hear from you!

Accountabilities

• Build strong partnerships with IT leaders (CIO/CTO organizations) to support their tech roadmaps. Jointly develop strategic sourcing strategies for SaaS, IT Hardware, Telecom, and Managed Services
• Manage business value through the development of cost-effective supply relationships while pursuing total cost of ownership savings by leveraging purchasing volume, strategic supplier relationships and ensuring a healthy, solid supply chain
• Direct, manage, and implement best practices in IT sourcing initiatives. Track sourcing projects for stakeholders, ensuring effective market assessments, complex RFP processes (e.g., cloud migrations, managed infrastructure), and supplier negotiation
• Manage and track sourcing initiatives for stakeholders, ensuring effective strategy development, market assessments, RFP processes, contract and supplier negotiation and supplier management while enabling collaboration between stakeholders and suppliers
• Proactively manage upcoming enterprise SaaS and telecom renewals to ensure right-sizing
• Proactively identify opportunities for improvements and execute to realize the benefits targeted whether contractual terms, productivity, efficiency, etc.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

• Deep understanding of the global technology market, including major SaaS providers (e.g., Google, Salesforce), Hardware OEMs (e.g., Dell, Cisco, HP), global Telecom carriers, and major MSPs
• Proven ability to effectively negotiate software licensing models (EULAs, enterprise agreements), hardware volume discounts, telecom rate cards, and complex Statements of Work (SOWs) for managed services.
• Expert knowledge of best practices in IT sourcing, spend analytics, and vendor management methodologies.
• Strong ability to work effectively across IT architecture, security, legal, and finance functions to achieve Celestica's goals
• Evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing. Drive decisions by using clear, solid communication to socialize, influence, and persuade senior management, including C-suite members, with succinct and pertinent data

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field (Commerce or Administration), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience (Procurement and/or purchasing designations an asset)
• Direct sourcing and category management experience specifically across SaaS, IT Hardware, Telecom, and Managed Services is a must
• Strong project management skills are a must.
• Previous experience in IT contract drafting, reviewing legal terms alongside internal counsel (e.g., data privacy, indemnification in cloud contracts), and negotiating favorable commercial terms
• Proven experience in leading large transformational projects is a strong asset.
• Global experience, specifically with Asia, is beneficial.
• 10 years of experience in procurement and strategy building roles and having managed large, complex and multi-functional projects is preferred

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.

Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.