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IBM · Posted Oct 24
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About the role
IBM Finance & Operations drives efficiency, transparency, and smart decision-making across the business, providing insight and discipline to guide strategy and ensure financial strength. The Procurement Sourcing Specialist role involves sourcing commodity demand in line with global sourcing strategy, requiring deep industry knowledge of the commodity being sourced.
What you will do
- At IBM Finance & Operations, we are the backbone of IBM’s transformation driving efficiency, transparency, and smart decision-making across the business. Our teams provide the insight and discipline that guide strategy, ensure financial strength, and enable IBM to invest in innovation and growth. Working in Finance & Operations means combining analytical skills with collaboration and curiosity. You’ll partner with colleagues across functions and geographies, using data, technology, and process excellence to create solutions that improve performance and deliver measurable impact. IBM offers continuous learning, career development, and a culture that values diverse perspectives. Join us and be part of a global team that keeps IBM moving forward, while building your own future in a dynamic and evolving environment. As a Procurement Sourcing Specialist, you will play a key role in sourcing commodity demand in line with the global sourcing strategy. This specialist role is a core specialty in global procurement sourcing and requires deep industry knowledge of the commodity being sourced.
- Source Commodity Demand: Understand the demand, establish the appropriate suppliers, and provide cost-effective and high-quality supply in line with the global sourcing strategy created by the particular sourcing council.
- Analyze Data and Benchmark: Apply data and benchmarking insights to inform sourcing decisions and ensure alignment with the global sourcing strategy.
- Negotiate with Suppliers: Engage in negotiations with suppliers, taking into account the strategic positioning of the supplier with regards to IBM strategic sourcing decisions.
- Document Sourcing Process: Document sourcing activities in a structured and auditable way to ensure transparency and accountability throughout the sourcing process.
- Build Supplier Relationships: Develop and maintain relationships with suppliers, influencing them to meet IBM's strategic sourcing objectives. Indirect Sourcing Experience, RFX, Market analysis, Negotiation, Supplier evaluation, Savings Delivers, Excel Skills.
- Data Analysis and Benchmarking: Experience working with data and benchmarking insights to inform sourcing decisions and drive cost savings.
- Strategic Supplier Relationships: Experience working with suppliers to meet business objectives, including influencing them to meet strategic sourcing objectives and negotiating contracts. India Enterprise Operations Hybrid Professional Bangalore, IN Bangalore (0063)
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Exposure to Sourcing Techniques: Familiarity with sourcing methods and tools to analyze data and negotiate with suppliers effectively.
- Industry Knowledge of Commodities: Understanding of the commodities being sourced, including market trends and supplier dynamics.
- Supplier Relationship Management: Exposure to building and maintaining relationships with suppliers to meet business objectives.
- Sourcing Process Documentation: Familiarity with documenting sourcing activities in a structured and auditable way to ensure transparency and accountability.
- Deep Industry Knowledge: Experience working with industry-specific data and benchmarking insights to inform sourcing decisions and drive cost savings. Understanding of the commodities being sourced, including market trends and supplier dynamics.
- Advanced Sourcing Techniques: Exposure to complex sourcing methods and tools to analyze data and negotiate with suppliers effectively. Familiarity with applying data and benchmarking insights to inform sourcing decisions.
Benefits and support
- continuous learning
- career development
About IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a global technology and consulting company that provides hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, and enterprise infrastructure solutions. Operating in over 175 countries, IBM helps businesses across industries modernize operations, secure data, and drive digital transformation through platforms like watsonx and Red Hat OpenShift. Founded over a century ago, the company remains a pioneer in high-performance computing, enterprise automation, and quantum technology.
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Company size
- 260,000+ employees
- Founded
- June 16, 1911
- Location
- Armonk, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $3.5B raised
- ·Post Ipo Debt$150M
Leadership
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