ICL Group

Job Description

Global Sourcing Manager – Professional Services & IT

For our IT Category we are looking for a Sourcing Manager that brings strong experience in creating sourcing strategies for SaaS contracts while having a pragmatic approach. ICL European HQ is the home of our Global Procurement Organization (GPO). ICL’s global sourcing strategies, negotiations and approvals of our global procurement contracts are steered and made in this office. We are a leading global specialty minerals company that creates impactful solutions for humanity’s sustainability challenges in the global food, agriculture, and industrial markets.

About the role

You will work closely together with internal stakeholders in Europe and Global teams in close cooperation with IT to support and help define the business’ needs for external services. You are going to design the procurement strategy for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS licences and lead the global and regional tender processes - being a true business partner for our IT stakeholders.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Initiate the strategic sourcing activities with the goal of achieving cost reductions, while maintaining or improving service quality or vendor service levels.
• Identify, evaluate & select suppliers, negotiate and close framework-agreements of Global & EU region services.
• Drive product demand optimization throughout ICL via collaboration with the relevant ICL units.
• Maintain and develop in-depth knowledge of suppliers, markets & trends.
• Perform best-in-class negotiation processes via analysis of supply & demand trends.
• Establish and manage global and regional relationships with suppliers.
• Monitor performances of vendors and their compliance with their commitments.
• Address & solve operational issues with suppliers.
• Provide guidance and guidelines to the regional and local procurement personnel.

About you

To be successful in this role you have a degree in a relevant field and several years of relevant experience in strategic procurement. Off course you bring experience in negotiating framework agreements in the relevant fields.

Other than above you also bring:

• Experience in working in an international environment and leading cross functional teams.
• Demonstrable track record of success in managing complex, cross-functional activities and developing and executing key procurement processes.
• You have a strategic mindset with a strong can-do mentality.
• Excellent interpersonal, business acumen, communication and supplier relations skills.
• When the discussions are heated you keep cool, know how to influence and will have clear communication style.
• Experience managing IT and Tech caregories with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS knowledge. Experience having managed large vendors such as Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce and Oracle
• Experience having managed IT sourcing for corporate functions - global applications for Finance, HR, Legal, Procurement and GRC

Location: EHQ Amsterdam

Apply now!

IT Procurement is what you do and love? We’d love to see your application! Click on "Apply now" button and upload your resume online. We can only accept applications through our online process.

If you have any questions, please contact Paul Binnekade, Talent Acquisition Partner via paul.binnekade@icl-group.com.