Senior Manager, IT Sourcing - JR100536-7366 - Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP

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Overview
Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing
clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major
regions of the U.S. and in many of the world's leading financial
centers - New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and
Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker
Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice
structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and
applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US,
LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to
its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities
provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly
Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA
firms.
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Tilly, are independent members of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide
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Job Description:
This strategic role reports to the newly elevated Senior Director of
Procurement and is responsible for driving IT procurement value creation
across Baker Tilly.
This individual will contribute meaningfully to Baker Tilly's broader
strategic procurement maturation journey; with H&F's recent investment,
significant growth and effectiveness initiatives are being deployed.
Collaborate with IT business stakeholders to develop and execute IT
category strategies across $120M+ in IT spend (and growing as Baker
Tilly grows) Deliver upon IT sourcing pipeline and value targets. Bring
IT procurement expertise and market intelligence to enhance outcomes and
secure position as trusted and critical strategic partner to business
stakeholders
Create sustainable savings and risk safeguards
- Develop "category strategies" to manage spend and drive ongoing
value from vendors across all IT towers including IT Services &
Labor, IT Infrastructure (Hardware, Telecom), Cloud, and IT Software
- Drive category strategy execution and sourcing e.g. RFPs/bids,
negotiations strategies, demand optimization and rightsizing, policy
redesign
- Negotiate contracts commercially and legally, with a balanced risk
approach
Engage with IT business stakeholders to drive spend influence and
innovation
- Partner closely with IT stakeholders and quarterback IT vendor
selection efforts
- Work closely with business stakeholder to understand IT roadmap,
pipeline and IT projects with downstream impact to procurement
- Leverage analytics and IT market intelligence to earn trust and
provide value add to business partners
- Assist with policy and guideline development (e.g. software
purchasing policies and proof of concepts)
Manage procurement pipeline and strategic IT sourcing calendar for all
IT expenditures
- Build and maintain robust calendar capturing renewals and planned
sourcing projects for existing and net new IT expenditures
- Work with FP&A and business to ensure tracking of realized savings
from all sourcing projects and negotiations activities
Support strategic vendor management
- Partner with business stakeholders to provide oversight across
strategic IT suppliers
- Challenge partners appropriately through negotiations and ongoing
vendor management to help ensure Baker Tilly optimizes value
delivered by vendors
- Oversee monitoring of vendor risk and vendor performance against
contractual obligations and KPIs to ensure overall effectiveness of
vendor-provided services
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree required
8+ years of relevant procurement experience required.
Demonstrated IT acumen and knowledge of all IT cost towers (IT