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IT Category Manager, Indirect Materials
FluenceAlpharetta, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Aug 2023
About the role
Fluence (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader in energy storage products and services and digital applications for renewables and storage. With a presence in 30 global markets, Fluence provides an ecosystem of offerings to drive the clean energy transition, including modular, scalable storage products, comprehensive service offerings, and the Fluence IQ platform, which delivers AI-enabled digital applications for managing and optimizing storage and renewables. The company is transforming the way we power our world by helping customers create more resilient and sustainable electric grids. For more information, please visit fluenceenergy.com. OUR CULTURE AND VALUES
We are guided by our passion to transform the way we power our world. Achieving our goals requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed.
We are Leading Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.
We are Responsible Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity.
We are Agile We achieve our goals and meet our customer’s needs by cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and self-reflection in our teams.
We are Fun We value the diversity in thought and experience of our coworkers and customers. Through honest, forthcoming, and respectful communications we work to ensure that Fluence is an inclusive and welcoming environment for all.
Location: Hybrid in Alpharetta, GA
This position will support all business at Fluence with IT requirements. A summary of those activities can include but not limited to:• 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.
Responsibilities• Support ALL IT Sourcing, Indirect Procurement and Supplier Management activities• The candidate will need to show strong knowledge of procurement principles, strong negotiating skills and an eye for detail in general and within IT industry• Manage IT supplier contracts by utilizing evaluating and selecting a suitable contract management tool and repository to analyze and incorporate supplier market trends to inform negotiations• Managing IT Supplier change process through informing IT suppliers of administrative processes, onboarding suppliers, establishing formal transition processes, and developing the creation of an exit strategy, and drive stakeholder adoption of Coupa processes• Review 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 create and drive strategy• 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 IT Business Partner Needs through proactive engagement with stakeholders for identified IT supp
We are guided by our passion to transform the way we power our world. Achieving our goals requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed.
We are Leading Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.
We are Responsible Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity.
We are Agile We achieve our goals and meet our customer’s needs by cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and self-reflection in our teams.
We are Fun We value the diversity in thought and experience of our coworkers and customers. Through honest, forthcoming, and respectful communications we work to ensure that Fluence is an inclusive and welcoming environment for all.
Location: Hybrid in Alpharetta, GA
This position will support all business at Fluence with IT requirements. A summary of those activities can include but not limited to:• 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.
Responsibilities• Support ALL IT Sourcing, Indirect Procurement and Supplier Management activities• The candidate will need to show strong knowledge of procurement principles, strong negotiating skills and an eye for detail in general and within IT industry• Manage IT supplier contracts by utilizing evaluating and selecting a suitable contract management tool and repository to analyze and incorporate supplier market trends to inform negotiations• Managing IT Supplier change process through informing IT suppliers of administrative processes, onboarding suppliers, establishing formal transition processes, and developing the creation of an exit strategy, and drive stakeholder adoption of Coupa processes• Review 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 create and drive strategy• 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 IT Business Partner Needs through proactive engagement with stakeholders for identified IT supp
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