IT Procurement Analyst - Randstad USA

Randstad Digital is seeking a skilled IT Procurement Analyst for a contract role in USA. If you are ready to join a leader in the Retail and Technology space, please apply and Randstad will be more than happy to assist you land your next role in the Technology space. We look forward to speaking with you!

 
location: Northbrook, Illinois
job type: Contract
salary: $50 - 55 per hour
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:

• Company: Crate & Barrel

• Hiring Manager: Alex Arens

• Role: IT Procurement Analyst

*Establish if has a hard stop:

• Company/Hiring Manager: What do they do?/Role within the company? What are you responsible for?

• Project/Team: Please explain details about the project this person will be working on.

Contingent for now, could have some perm opportunity

• Challenges around getting data clean, needs a lite VMS solution to get in place

• Figuring out strategy with contingent workers, figuring out if they want an MSP or do elsewhere

• Job description is high level,

IT Procurement Analyst:

• Wanting to test out how much work this procurement analyst would do

• Want them to take on tactical day to day contract management
  • Need to have some time of background with contracts, know how to read them, understand what they say

  • Don't need a tech background necessarily

  • Retail background could be a good fit

  • Agiloft - Contract Management Tool - but any tool like that is fine

• Role will grow, will probably grow into a full team

• Could be a need for two - SaaS, Hardware, Etc

• Could be another for ecommerce side - Search, SaaS, contracts

Location:

• Ideally would want them in office, but it could be remote

• RTO pretty strict outside of Tech, but this could be okay for remote

• Northbrook in Chicago

Questions:

• Now, covering everything - professional services, software, hardware

• Long term - similar scope, feels like there's not enough volume for category-specific roles

• Do they need to ID end points, things like that, escalate

• Looking more Junior would be better

Doing some negotiating, something messy wouldn't be handled by them

Processes:

• Augmentation, there's things in place

start local, then branch out

Pipeline:

• Rates have been high

Interview:

• Him and one other, 2 rounds of interviews

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 4 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors