Fluence · 2 days ago
Indirect Procurement-IT Category Mgr.
Arlington, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid LevelFluence is a global market leader delivering intelligent energy storage and optimization software for renewables and storage. The Indirect Procurement-IT Category Manager will support all business IT requirements, manage supplier relationships, and drive strategic sourcing initiatives to enhance supplier performance and financial visibility.
EnergyEnergy StorageRenewable Energy
Responsibilities
Managing IT Supplier change process through establishing formal transition processes, and developing the creation of an exit strategy, and drive stakeholder adoption of IT any and all IT projects as applicable
Source, select and create supplier reviews of supplier proposals before final negotiations, and provide negotiation suggestions that will help drive the creation and capturing of data to drive metrics and analysis
Help engage IT stakeholders annually to develop subcategory sourcing plans, gather and communicate market intelligence, and capture all internal data to drive strategy
Manage IT Supplier Management
Establish IT Supplier governance by building process and role authority to help drive policy and process recognition; drive consistent implementation and enforcement of processes
Manage all IT needs through proactive engagement with stakeholders for identified IT suppliers and communicate regularly with the business on their needs
Manage IT Supplier Performance by tracking performance and commitments for IT contracts; will need to review selected IT supplier performance, and evaluate suppliers beyond operational measures to improved supplier performance through formal improvement plans
Provide IT Financial Visibility using Coupa reporting or other financial systems
Provide supplier market trends to provide insight for negotiations
Communicate value proposition by providing verbal evidence of the value delivered per request
Manage supplier spend data by helping to track IT spend at the category and subcategory level (HW / SW / Service contractors), and help analyze and report on the IT spend Data to help implement automated methods of tracking IT supplier spend data
Manage self-service IT e-catalogs which will help adapt the IT Acquisition process on a cost-speed-risk basis
Qualification
Required
Managing IT Supplier change process through establishing formal transition processes, and developing the creation of an exit strategy, and drive stakeholder adoption of IT any and all IT projects as applicable
Source, select and create supplier reviews of supplier proposals before final negotiations, and provide negotiation suggestions that will help drive the creation and capturing of data to drive metrics and analysis
Help engage IT stakeholders annually to develop subcategory sourcing plans, gather and communicate market intelligence, and capture all internal data to drive strategy
Manage IT Supplier Management
Establish IT Supplier governance by building process and role authority to help drive policy and process recognition; drive consistent implementation and enforcement of processes
Manage all IT needs through proactive engagement with stakeholders for identified IT suppliers and communicate regularly with the business on their needs
Manage IT Supplier Performance by tracking performance and commitments for IT contracts; will need to review selected IT supplier performance, and evaluate suppliers beyond operational measures to improved supplier performance through formal improvement plans
Provide IT Financial Visibility using Coupa reporting or other financial systems
Provide supplier market trends to provide insight for negotiations
Communicate value proposition by providing verbal evidence of the value delivered per request
Manage supplier spend data by helping to track IT spend at the category and subcategory level (HW / SW / Service contractors), and help analyze and report on the IT spend Data to help implement automated methods of tracking IT supplier spend data
Manage self-service IT e-catalogs which will help adapt the IT Acquisition process on a cost-speed-risk basis
Company
Fluence
Fluence makes energy storage technology solutions and services. It is a sub-organization of AES.
Founded in 2018
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (24)
2024 (44)
2023 (19)
2022 (21)
2021 (19)
2020 (13)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$525MKey Investors
Qatar Investment Authority
2024-12-10Post Ipo Debt· $400M
2023-12-05Post Ipo Secondary
2021-10-28IPO
Leadership Team
Julian Nebreda
President & CEO
Brett Galura
SVP & CTO
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