Sourcing Assistant Manager (IT Category)

The Estée Lauder Companies attracts the most outstanding people from diverse industries and nurtures their talents. Whether they work in one of our stores, on a production line, at our corporate headquarters in New York City or in one of our affiliates worldwide, our employees take pride in their contributions to our success.

Do you want to work for one of the world’s largest luxury beauty brands?

Do you want to work for a company that delivers value to its customers on a daily basis?

Do you want to join a talented, multi-lingual and fun team?

We are looking for

Sourcing Assistant Manager (IT Category)

to join our team in Budapest!

The role :

This role will act as the primary point of contact for ELC stakeholders & strategic partners, responsible for managing actions and information flows associated with stakeholder requests and negotiations for 3rd party external expenditure. The position will seek and obtain decision / approvals required to drive procurement activities through to successful completion for the IT spend category. This role requires functional knowledge of the core vendor agreements and the ability to perform contract drafting.

Qualifications

Responsibilities :

• Review strategic vendor agreements and revise as necessary to ensure ELC is maximizing benefits while minimizing financial expenditure / exposure. Recommend contract revisions to improve language and reduce gaps / inconsistencies.
• Evaluate / negotiate vendor Contract Change Orders (CCO’s), Transaction Schedules and SOWs to ensure documents are in alignment with agreements and contract drafting is correct. Create associated approval packages.
• Support managing vendor performance scorecards.
• Support continuous improvement within the environment.
• Monitor contract milestones, dates, deliverables in agreements to ensure vendor is meeting its contractual obligations.
• Oversees the monthly Service Leadership Committee meetings (includes managing agenda with vendor and ensuring everything is documented properly for governance purposes).
• Responsible for the supporting documentation associated with vendor governance meetings – includes analysis of Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Remediation Action Plans (RAP) as well as driving issue resolution.
• Interpret statistics and obtain stakeholder feedback to support creation of vendor account status reports.
• Oversee request demand inflow, evaluate requirements and assign to appropriate group.
• Develop vendor account status reports, includes capture and collation of statistics and stakeholder feedback.

Oversee vendor tasks / deliverables are being met from a VMO perspective (e.g. documents are presented on time, outstanding credits are received), escalate to manager when necessary.

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