At EMC, you'll put your skills to good use as an important member of our team. You can count on gaining valuable experience while contributing to the company's success. EMC strives to hire and retain the best people by engaging, developing and rewarding employees.

Essential Functions:

• Serves as procurement resource for entire annual spend of assigned categories and/or departments through collaboration with business unit leaders
• Collaborates with business units to understand the business processes and procedures a vendor's products/services support
• Champions the vendor management program as an enterprise-wide function that allows management to control costs, drive service excellence, mitigate risks, and understand the vendor spend component of EMC's expense ratio
• Drives monthly business reviews, covering active and future pipeline, along with key industry, supplier, or internal changes and acts as the key procurement contact for assigned business units, educating partners on policy, contract status, and payment processing
• Leads the negotiation of the financials, contract length, and deliverable / product / service terms of vendor contracts, including implementing improvements to commercial terms of contracts based on knowledge of business partner needs
• Prioritizes vendor contracts based upon size, scope, and replacement difficulty to ensure that resources are expended appropriately
• Closely coordinates review of supplier contracts with adjacent business partners, such as Information Security, IT, Innovation, Risk Management, Privacy, and Legal, to ensure alignment between commercial, technical and legal terms and conditions of supplier contracts
• Leads the request process (RFx) with key suppliers and develops pricing models, payment terms, engagement lengths, KPI's and SLA's for contracts with suppliers and drives efficiencies in the Procurement and/or Sourcing Model
• Provides post-contract support to business units regarding usage-based commercial terms and assists in the identification of common contractual soft costs incurred by company.
• Maintains a level of expertise in an assigned category or categories to continue to monitor and evaluate potential new partnerships and/or tools to meet assigned category and/or business unit needs.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably business, supply chain, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• Seven years of experience in procurement, sourcing, or supplier management, including contract negotiation experience or related experience
• Prior property and casualty insurance experience preferred
• Relevant industry certification(s) or designation(s) preferred

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Thorough knowledge of contract principles and the contract negotiation process
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including contract negotiation
• Excellent ability to read, comprehend, and communicate contractual language to make recommendations to stakeholders
• Ability to work strategically and collaboratively across all departments
• Strong knowledge of the RF(X) process
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills, including documentation and presentation skills
• Strong analytical ability, including strong knowledge of spend analytics
• Strong computer skills, including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Excellent analytical, investigative, and problem-solving abilities
• Strong attention to detail, multi-tasking, organizational, and project management skills

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