Sourcing Specialist - IT
$88,000–$121,000 year
On-siteAustin, Texas, United States or Santa Clara, California, United States
Job Summary
Execute low to moderately complex IT sourcing projects end-to-end, from intake to award, preparing RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs while managing supplier communication and timelines. Analyze bids to develop structured evaluation summaries, perform cost and scenario analysis for commercial negotiations, and support pricing and commercial term agreements within delegated authority. Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders during sourcing events and manage supplier interactions across the RFx lifecycle. Ensure all sourcing events are audit-ready with complete documentation, maintain compliance with procurement policies, and partner with Legal, Finance, and Procurement Operations to enable contract execution and seamless post-award handoffs. Identify improvements in sourcing execution and share best practices to support capability building within the IT Sourcing Alignment category.
Required Qualifications
- Experience in IT sourcing
- Software sourcing experience
- Hardware sourcing experience
- Cloud sourcing experience
- Infrastructure sourcing experience
- End-to-end sourcing execution capability
- RFI preparation capability
- RFP preparation capability
- RFQ preparation capability
- Supplier communication management
- Bid analysis capability
- Structured evaluation summary development
- Cost analysis capability
- Scenario analysis capability
- Commercial negotiation support
- Pricing negotiation capability
- Commercial terms negotiation capability
- Stakeholder management during sourcing events
- Supplier interaction management
- RFx lifecycle management
- Contracting process management
- Audit readiness documentation
- Complete documentation capability
- Approval process management
- Procurement policy compliance
- Risk management
- Governance standards adherence
- Cross-functional collaboration with Legal
- Cross-functional collaboration with Finance
- Cross-functional collaboration with Procurement Operations
- Contract execution support
- Supplier onboarding support
- Post-award handoff support
- PO creation support
- Process improvement identification
- Process improvement implementation
- Template improvement
- Best practices sharing
- Capability building support
- 10% travel availability
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