Job Description
What you will be doing:

• Analyze key supply markets and establish relationships with industry leading partners
• Develop relevant goals and targets; as well as achieve set goals.
• Lead and develop global team of procurement professionals in analyzing, sourcing, negotiation, contract development, and the award of contracts across spend categories. This can include staff that are indirect reports in other markets, so the ability to lead in a matrixed environment is critical. Perform end-to-end souring duties: partner with executive clients in building category plans, perform supplier/market analysis, execute RFx process, source selection and negotiation/risk management of contracts
• Manage complex negotiations with third parties and ensure benefit for FIS
• Interface and build strategic relationships with key stakeholders globally, including business leaders, Finance leads and Legal
• Proactively identify and mitigate category risks; partner with internal risk teams to ensure all deals are compliant with all relevant requirements
• Identify and drive strategic commodity direction, prioritizing workload, and project assignments for team
• Gain a thorough understanding of stakeholder's business strategy, and requirements, to develop category and supplier approach
• Periodically plan and execute comprehensive expense category reviews
• Build and maintain awareness of external marketplace and industry trends related to category and third parties.
• Deliver a superior customer experience to internal and external clients worldwide
• Establishes and govern global sourcing policies and procedures that ensure the economic benefit of products and services purchased
• This leader will be a "player coach" with demonstrated ability to deliver through others and as an individual contributor
• Oversee a diverse and professional team of sourcing and negotiation experts, including department budget
• Demonstrates effective leadership of for the department, including, but not limited to, hiring, performance appraisals, employee development, and employee relations issues.

What you bring:
Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.

Skills and Abilities:

• Expertise in creating and delivering strategic sourcing and global category management outcomes (leverage the enterprise)
• Deep knowledge of relevant global supply markets, contract negotiation and enhancing supplier performance
• Demonstrated understanding of business, financial, and economic ramifications of various procurement actions and alternatives in order to recommend appropriate actions
• Track record of successfully and proactively implementing procurement initiatives including achieving savings targets, negotiating complex deals, and delivering process improvement
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization (e.g. executive, management, individual contributors)
• Excellent problem solving, team and time management skills managing multiple deadlines for self and others
• Proficiency in evaluating the performance capabilities of subordinates as well as counsel subordinates in development and/or corrective discipline
• Proficiency in making projections of future expenses based on analysis of cost effectiveness of past expenditures
• Direct experience leading complex negotiations, including understanding tradeoffs between strategic and financial drivers and contractual protections
• Effective leadership skills and commitment to mentoring, coaching, and developing a team of direct and, potentially, matrix reports, located around the world and virtually
• Strong Project Management skills with proven experience in successfully managing and executing multiple, large-scale initiatives, proficiency to operate independently

Experience should include:

• 8+ years of strategic sourcing, or relevant experience with experience in accountable category areas
• Demonstrated success developing and leading high performing teams that deliver quantifiable results, including cost reductions
• Understanding of key contracting concepts and legal terms
• Working knowledge of accounting principles, financial modeling, and business case development, evaluation, and presentation
• Strong business savvy and commercial negotiation skills
• Excellent third-party negotiation strategy formulation and execution
• Supplier / third-party management and development
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• Process driven with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

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For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.
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