Manager, Technology Strategic Sourcing

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Your New Role

The Manager of Technology Strategic Sourcing (TSS) will collaborate with our global internal clients across the global WBD Technology, Advertising, and Marketing  organizations to execute sourcing and procurement strategies that drive value creation and improved business capability. The Manager will be responsible for managing technology acquisitions from WBD’s mid-tier and top-tier technology partnerships, with a primary focus on deal negotiation and strategy in the ad tech, mar tech, data and related fields. Responsibilities will include managing sourcing & competitive events for more complex technology acquisitions, contract planning and negotiation, creating and implementing category strategies and development of sourcing and relationship management policies.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Manager will manage sourcing projects and will handle business and technical contract negotiations for mid-tier and top-tier technology transactions, including:
• Gathering requirements from relevant WBD stakeholders.
• Reading, interpreting, understanding, and communicating technology contract terms.
• Partnering with legal to understand legal concepts and challenges, and problem solve to overcome challenges.
• Working with Finance and Business Stakeholders to identify budgetary constraints and develop desired set of commercial terms.
• Negotiating pricing and other commercial terms, as well as Statements of Work, Service Level Agreements, and other technical/operational documents.
• Owning overall responsibility for delivering finalized agreements in accordance with applicable timing requirements and other relevant factors.
• Serving as negotiation lead on deal terms including presenting position, counters, and developing fallbacks to produce material savings, improved terms and conditions, and risk reduction for WBD.
• Managing the request for proposal/quote/information (RFX) process and the competitive bid process for technology vendor selection, where applicable.
• Deliver cost savings through daily work and through driving proactive cost savings initiatives as part of WBD’s Technology Sourcing team
• The Manager will be responsible to lead the technology vendor and procurement strategy, including:
• Act as liaison for Technology Business Unit Stakeholders across Legal, Finance, Security, and Procurement and other WBD departments throughout contract negotiation and relationship management process.
• Implement knowledge of sourcing, contract negotiation and relationship management best practices and industry trends.
• Identify areas of opportunity in partner categories e.g., supplier and technology rationalizations
• Manager will act as an WBD business representative conducting relationship management for WBD mid and top tier technology vendors, including:
• Managing WBD’s business relationships with vendors, focusing on business issues, escalations, and other non-operational matters.
• Planning and managing vendor business reviews; analyzing and rating key vendors.
• Developing supplier debriefing materials to address performance issues and identify opportunities to improve relationships
• Preparing and delivering briefing documents, status reporting, and other data/reports on key WBD’s technology relationships for senior management.
• Advising and consulting with clients on market trends, technology, new products, and training.
• Building strong internal client relationships and serve as a trusted advisor and partner.
• Maintaining accurate contracting data, vendor records, and transaction information.
• Manager will provide support to the processing and operations functions of the TSS team, including:
• Overseeing the request for proposal/quote/information (RFX) process and the competitive bid process for technology vendor selection, where applicable.
• Identifying and assessing technology vendors/p