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What You'll Do
As Director, IT Purchasing and Budget, you will be a senior member of the Digital Workplace Experience and Business Intelligence Team. This role is split evenly between two areas. 50% is Purchasing Category Management: about 30% laptops and about 20% mobile telecom. 50% is IT Finance Management, covering capital expenditure requests and IT budgeting: about 30% North America budget and capital expenditure, and about 20% shared between Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East, South America and Africa budget support and capex creation for the new SAP integration. You will work on mobile telecom cost analysis, invoice control and reporting, working alongside the team that manages mobile carrier contracts, manage laptop orders and spend in line with the strategy set by the hardware category team, and ensure the IT budget and capital expenditure process is accurate, consistent and well controlled across regions.
Your responsibilities include:
Laptops and End User Devices Purchasing (approx. 30%)
Partner with the team that leads laptop category strategy and vendor selection, and handle the financial and order coordination side of the agreed approach
Plan and coordinate hardware orders for refresh, new hire and replacement demand in cooperation with local IT and global asset management
Review and approve laptop quotations, and ensure orders follow negotiated pricing, standard models and approved budgets, and escalate exceptions to the category lead
Track hardware spend, volumes and commitments against budget and capex, and forecast upcoming order needs
Maintain hardware order and spend reporting in Power BI, plus related knowledge base articles and process documentation
Mobile Telecom Purchasing (approx. 20%)
Partner with the team that manages mobile carrier contracts and vendor relationships, and with the telecom expense management provider, including support on renewals and requests for proposal as required
Analyze historical cost data and usage trends, and recommend cost reduction strategies
Control and dispute invoices, and monitor usage and costs for compliance with company policy
Design, deploy and standardize processes across offices with the telecom expense management provider, and work with local IT to improve new hire, internal transfer and departure workflows
Run service reviews with carriers and drive efficiency and automation with the telecom expense management provider
Maintain Power BI reporting and knowledge base articles for mobile telecom
Worldwide IT Budget and Capital Expenditure (approx. 50%)
Partner with local and regional finance teams, local IT managers and regional directors to manage the North America IT budget and forecast
Drive line level budgeting and consistency across the region, and prepare the IT budget for all North America offices
Consolidate North American regional inputs into a coordinated view of IT spend and capital expenditure, and provide budget variance analysis
Support the Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East, South America and Africa IT budget and forecast cycles with regional finance and…