IT Procurement Senior Buyer

hace 7 días


Lagunilla, Costa Rica TransUnion A tiempo completo

TransUnion's Job Applicant Privacy Notice

**What We'll Bring**:
Job Sub-Function Description:
TU Procure is a team of professional buyers and negotiators that acquire products and services that TransUnion requires both locally and globally. The Procurement buying teams are organized by category and commodity and are supported by IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Procurement Operations. The team also manages the relationships with suppliers that supply TransUnion and also interfaces with other internal functions that oversee third party relationships such as Information Security, Accounts Payable, Finance, Legal, and Third Party Risk functions. The team manages RFI’s, RFP’s and Predictive Benchmarks to facilitate the bidding process. The two most important objectives in our negotiations is to protect the company and to get the best possible cost of ownership for the products and services being acquired.

**What You'll Bring**:
**Responsibilities**:
**Impact You'll Make**:
**Essential Duties**:

- Analyzes spend patterns to identify opportunities to reduce or eliminate cost and/or operational variance in the Telco and Telephony area.
- Identifies, reconciles and prioritizes product and service procurement needs and deliverables in collaboration with internal customers across TransUnion locations.
- Monitors emerging technologies and marketplace developments and develops appropriate strategies to capitalize on same; facilitates the evaluation of products and services.
- Negotiates and finalizes contracts, ensuring full understanding of obligations and deliverables by affected parties.
- Provides customer service; builds strategic relationships with internal customers and operational leaders; assist with additional duties as assigned.
- Responsible for monitoring and reporting of various financial metrics related to purchasing
- Communicate negotiation results to senior management
- Innovate, plan, and execute strategic initiatives that will strengthen quality, drive value, and enhance relationships with TransUnion supplier partnerships
- Managing projects appropriately to meet timescales, working with stakeholders on business cases and making supplier recommendations
- Developing global procurement strategies for the Telecommunication Category across many business units and, in some cases, member firms.

**Experience and Skill Set**:

- BA Degree and/or minimum of 5+ year’s experience in Information Technology procurement, contracts and supplier management.
- Experience with IT software, hardware, cloud, and services suppliers is highly desired.
- Subject Matter expertise in a given category (e.g. software, professional services, etc.)
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills and proven ability to work independently and within a team.
- Experienced negotiator having worked in global environments
- CPSM certification preferred
- Experience interfacing with IT Asset Management (ITAM)
- Experience with managing, negotiating supplier agreements in M&A scenarios including transition servicing agreements (TSAs)
- Broad experience negotiating complex supplier contracts

TransUnion Job Title

Consultant, Procurement


  • Buyer Ii

    hace 4 semanas


    Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    **Summary** This position plays an integral part in developing and implementing sourcing strategies for the buying desk. Will be responsible for executing spot buys, sourcing events, and projects related activities for the multiple categories. **Key Responsibilities** - Execute one-time or low-complexity sourcing requests as part of the Procurement...

  • Buyer Ii

    hace 6 días


    Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    **Company Information**: **About Thermo Fisher Scientific**: **Job Summary** This position plays an integral part in developing and implementing sourcing strategies for the buying desk. Will be responsible for executing spot buys, sourcing events, and projects-related activities for mechanical and electrical categories. **Key Responsibilities** - Execute...

  • Buyer Ii

    hace 4 días


    Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    Company Information- About Thermo Fisher Scientific- **Job Summary** This position plays an integral part in developing and implementing sourcing strategies for the buying desk. Will be responsible for executing spot buys, sourcing events, and projects-related activities for mechanical and electrical categories. **Key Responsibilities** - Execute one-time...

  • Buyer Ii

    hace 3 días


    Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    **Company Information**: **About Thermo Fisher Scientific**: **Job Summary** This position plays an integral part in developing and implementing sourcing strategies for the buying desk. Will be responsible for executing spot buys, sourcing events, and projects related activities for mechanical and electrical categories. **Key Responsibilities** - Execute...

  • Procurement Intern

    hace 2 días


    Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    When you are part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. And you’ll have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development. With revenues of more than $30 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    **Job Summary** This position plays an integral part in developing and implementing sourcing strategies. Will be responsible for executing spot buys, sourcing events, and projects related activities for the multiple categories. **Key Responsibilities** - Lead strategic and tactical sourcing activities with spend up to $10M - Craft negotiation strategies...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    **Job Summary** This position plays an integral part in developing and implementing sourcing strategies. Will be responsible for executing spot buys, sourcing events, and projects related activities for the multiple categories. **Key Responsibilities** - Lead strategic and tactical sourcing activities with spend up to $10MK across multiple categories and...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    When you are part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. And you’ll have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development. With revenues of more than $30 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant...

  • Buyer - Planner

    hace 4 días


    Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    **How will you make an impact?** The primary responsibility of the Buyer I is managing the day to day materials planning and placement of purchase orders for the assigned commodities. The person will manage supplier relationships, maintain inventory levels, purchase agreements and work with other departments to control costs, solve problems, and ensure the...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    **How will you make an impact?** **What will you do?** - Develop and maintain procurement data definitions and standards to ensure consistent and accurate data across the organization. - Conduct data analysis to identify data quality issues and support data cleansing initiatives to improve data accuracy. - Collaborate across Procurement, Supply Chain,...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 130,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 130,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    Customers globally rely on our extensive range of products and services— from life-saving medicines to lab essentials to next-generation instruments. Our Operations team leverages our PPI (Practical Process Improvement Business System) to manufacture and produce these products and continuously improve productivity and quality all while contributing to our...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica BCD Travel Corporate A tiempo completo

    **Do you want to work in a fast-paced and exciting environment, where no two days are the same? We’re looking for a Procurement Specialist who enjoys both a buzz and a challenge.** **Procurement Specialist** - Full-time, (home)based in Costa Rica_ We’re BCD Travel, one of the world’s leading corporate travel management companies with offices around...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    The Sr Portfolio Specialist develops and implements global procurement process standards and accountability for core procurement metrics related to our savings pipeline and inflation. This role will engage with procurement leadership as well as group and category teams across the function to establish standard ways of working, and lead reporting cadences for...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    Company Information- About Thermo Fisher Scientific- **Job Summary** This position plays an integral part in developing and implementing sourcing strategies for the buying desk. Will be responsible for executing spot buys, sourcing events, and projects related activities for the multiple categories. **Key Responsibilities** - Lead strategic and tactical...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    **Company Information**: **About Thermo Fisher Scientific**: **Job Summary** This position plays an integral part in developing and implementing sourcing strategies for the buying desk. Will be responsible for executing spot buys, sourcing events, and projects related activities for the multiple categories. **Key Responsibilities** - Lead strategic and...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    **Key interfaces** - Category leaders, business stakeholders, suppliers, legal **Key responsibilities** - Lead strategic and tactical sourcing activities with spend above $500K across multiple categories and high degree of complexity. - Manage contract lifecycle process (including uploading contracts, developing standard templates and monitoring / tracking...

  • Sr Category Analyst

    hace 4 semanas


    Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    **How will you make an impact?** The **Sr. Category **Analyst**: This role reports locally into the Center of Excellence with dotted line to the Sr. Director, Indirect PMO leader and will support the global indirect procurement team with business process and program analytics for various strategic spend programs. This role will require strong procurement...


  • Lagunilla, Costa Rica Thermo Fisher Scientific A tiempo completo

    Responsible for leading sourcing strategy development, execution, contract negotiations and management for spend across indirect categories. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Manage contract lifecycle process (including uploading contracts, developing standard templates and monitoring/tracking expiry) - Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms...