It Supplier Management Lead Remote

• Define and build a Software Asset Management practice partnering with key constituents across ZTD
• Establish Supplier Relationship Manager (SRM) Model with clear roles and responsibilities, identify SRMs in ZTD for our Preferred Suppliers ensuring Zoetis maximizes value received from supplier engagements.
• Act as Procurement’s main point of contact for ZTD, ensure all Procurement Processes are followed for all new supplier engagements/contracts. Ensure ‘business requirements’ are provided to Procurement
• Create and manage a Supplier Landscape Framework – capturing where and how suppliers are engaged across the ZTD organization
• Build and execute against a Supplier Rationalization Plan – driving efficiencies while optimizing our overall Supplier Landscape
• Establish a Supplier Relationship Framework outlining a consistent approach to engaging, managing, and managing performance with our Preferred Suppliers (supplier meeting cadence, scorecards, etc)
• Maintain inventory of supplier spend by category (software, hardware, telecom, staff augmentation, services), cost center and region.
• Implement a Supplier Governance Model to ensure all new supplier engagements are evaluated against our Preferred Suppliers ensuring new suppliers are added only after existing supplier base is exhausted
• Establish and manage our Preferred Supplier list in partnership with the ZTD Leadership Team
• Establish and manage a full inventory of ZTD Contracts, partner with Procurement as the lead for all renewals

• Experience building supplier and cost management practices across a global IT organization including successfully influencing and driving change in governance practices
• Proven experience in successfully leading a matrixed team in the management of suppliers/third parties, including, but not limited to policies, performance, relationships, and issue and dispute resolution
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or other relevant field
• Strong communication and broad influence skills; ability to develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience leading sourcing strategies and category management with total technology supplier spend of $200M or more
• 5-8+ years in supplier management and sourcing, specifically related to IT for multi-national global corporations in a position to influence senior level management and key stakeholders

• Must be highly motivated, self-starting, and committed to achieving results and have a strong sense of ownership and follow-through to resolution
• Executive presence and comfort interacting across all levels of the organization including senior leadership
• Relationship skills that will facilitate positive supplier behaviors, establish healthy new engagements, and deepen existing ones
• Strong problem-solving ability with a focus on managing to business outcomes through collaboration with multiple internal and external parties
• Ability to influence, build strong relationships at all levels of the organization, and be a change agent in transforming and implementing new governance structures and ways of working
• Hands on leader with desire to dig into the details, build new practices, work across the organization to build buy-in, but also can work on strategy and interact with executive level discussions
• Strong collaboration skills across multiple layers without formal authority
• Thought leader in SMO practices and provides strategic direction and insights to stakeholders
• Leads and motivates others, generating commitment and a shared sense of purpose
• Demonstrates and models Zoetis Core Beliefs in all interactions
• Accountable for delivery of measurable results with significant positive impact to ZTD

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