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Burns & McDonnell · 6 days ago

Corporate Purchaser - Technology Vendor Management

Kansas City, MO

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Burns & McDonnell is seeking a Corporate Purchaser for Technology Vendor Management who will support the management of the technology portfolio while optimizing the value, cost, and risk of technology assets. The role involves software and hardware acquisition, compliance, maintenance renewals, and life-cycle planning and costing.

ArchitectureConstructionConsultingHuman Resources

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Assist in the IT Service lifecycle management plan for all equipment, hardware, and software licensing

Assure software license compliance for all software titles and associated agreements

Manage multiple license types, software suites, entitlements, upgrade and downgrade of licenses to ensure best-fit licensing

Manage unallocated software licenses for reclamation, software counts for reconciliation and software discovery models for normalization

Import licenses and contracts information into the software asset management tool

Ensure the integrity and accuracy of the inventory and entitlement data

Determine license position for projects, true-ups and audits, and contract and license maintenance renewals using available financial and installation data

Provide information associated with litigation and software compliance, contracts, and EULAs

Identify, assess and manage risk-related areas in the contract execution process and support rigorous and effective risk management procedures

Collect and maintain accurate software licensing information to address budgeting, software compliance and inventory, contracts, and cost

Forecast IT asset investments and service costs

Perform financial analysis & reviews such as TCO and ROI on project requests to facilitate funding approval

Assist in the development of financial models, collect and evaluate data, make appropriate assumptions, analyze results and make recommendations

Support process improvements of the key financial systems, processes and metrics to support financial reporting

Establish internal standards, processes, and templates for working with vendors and automating processes where applicable

Understand IT vendor spending by category, cost center, region, and vendor

Ensure there are clear metrics across all key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure strong performance management

Assist with the collaboration of IT, Procurement, Legal, and Finance Services to maximize contract value and mitigate risk

Work proactively with IT Service Owners to identify areas of opportunity to assist procurement staff when negotiating with vendors to optimize the procurement of cost-effective acquisitions

Qualification

Technology vendor managementSoftware asset managementFinancial analysisServiceNowITILIAITAM certificationProject managementAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsCollaboration skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or related degree

3 years' experience, preferably with three or more years of experience in project management, asset management, finance, or supply chain, in a technology environment

Ability to see 'big picture' strategic view as well as process details

Ability to work with various systems and data sources to gather and assimilate required information

IAITAM (CSAM, CITAM) equivalent certification

Preferred

Applicable years of experience may be substituted for degree requirement

Work experience with the ServiceNow platform

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) experience

IAITAM (CSAM, CITAM) preferred or equivalent certification

Company

Burns & McDonnell

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Burns & McDonnell is an engineering design firm and it provides engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting services.

Founded in 1898

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.burnsmcd.com

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