Strategic Sourcing Professional

**Introduction**
IBM is seeking highly motivated individuals with comprehensive commercial procurement and client facing or consulting experience to join our team of procurement professionals. Specifically, we are looking for procurement professionals to join IBM’s Global Procurement team in support of IBM Procurement Services business area, servicing IBM’s external clients.

Strong Verbal and written skills required.
**Your role and responsibilities**
Experience Needed: 10 to 12+years in Procurement and Sourcing

* Execute competitive bid events, benchmarking projects
* Analyze changing client/market conditions
* Support sourcing projects based on client requirements
* Communicate and negotiate with clients and suppliers through all levels of organization
* Perform periodic analysis within managed commodity scope to identify savings, define efficiency opportunities and initiatives that should be undertaken
* Optimize supply base opportunities acros...