Procurement Manager

About Ellucian:
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

**Values Rooted in Purpose**

We embrace the power to **lead**, the courage to **innovate**, and the determination to **grow**. At our core, we believe in **humanizing** our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of **transformation**, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.

About the Opportunity:
**Where you will make an impact**
- Lead the development, implementation, and alignment of category management and sourcing strategies to achieve broad business objectives.
- Develop category plans (demand & supply profile, SWOT, key stakeholders list, cost model, etc)
- Influencing and managing stakeholders, understanding their needs, aligning procurement and business objectives, and planning/executing effective and timely communications.
- Facilitate discussions and make recommendations around business requirements, supplier strategy, and category implications
- Leading cross-functional teams to generate and implement process improvement, spend optimization, and operational efficiency ideas.
- Negotiate and implement sourcing initiatives and contracts. Responsible for effectively negotiating, creating, and executing contracts with suppliers.
- Lead supplier relationship management (“SRM”) process, supplier performance reviews, and supplier development initiatives
- Manage category-focused projects (sourcing, demand management, process review, etc.)
- Benchmark category performance against external data and best practices.
- Identifying, selecting, and qualifying the most appropriate suppliers in the industry and/or geographical market.

**What you will bring**
- 5+ years of procurement/sourcing experience. Specifically, in the areas of IT Hardware, Software, AI Tech
- Expert level negotiating skills; able to identify win-win solutions in a complex situation; able to keep cool under pressure and be able to find solutions in difficult situations.
- ** Proactive** approach to stakeholder management with the ability to influence at all levels within an organization.
- Advanced problem-solving and quantitative skills; able to distil data and articulate findings.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work independently.
- Capable of understanding and then challenging the status quo, as appropriate. Requires the ability to change the thinking of or gain acceptance from others in sensitive situations without damage to the relationship.
- Responsive to other roles within company that depend upon this key function for successful performance; able to resolve potentially conflicting objectives across functions and with outside provider(s)
- Strong insights and experience managing change, results-driven, passionate about operations and technical excellence.
- Well-rounded business/finance acumen and well-developed presence.

What makes #Ellucianlife:

- Comprehensive health coverage: family major medical expenses, dental and life insurance.
- Christmas bonus 30 days
- Saving fund
- Monthly food coupon
- 15 workdays vacation
- Thrive Flex Program that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
- 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
- Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups such as: Women in Technology, Pride and Go Green to name a few.
- Parental leave
- Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
- We Foster a learning culture with:

- Tuition Reimbursement Assistance
- Professional development opportunities

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