- Strong technical and contracting skills are required to review and analyze technology licenses and SLAs to ensure best contracting practices.
- Experience with mega software vendors or service providers highly desired.
- Interfaces with internal stakeholders, senior leadership, legal, risk, information security, and the suppliers.
- Ensures all internal policies are met through the course of the contracting/purchasing process.
- Coordinates and owns the procurement/sourcing strategy and associated negotiations. Works closely with the business to ensure their requirements are met with their supplier choice while securing the best commercial and contract terms. -Presents strategy, pricing, and deal options to internal teams.
- Requires strong organizational skills to manage multiple high stakes, high dollar deals and to drive value for Hallmark while protecting them contractually.
- Works with the other Buyers in the Indirect team and PO Specialists as part of the total source to pay process.
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- Minimum of 3 years of technology and software licensing experience and professional services experience
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- Experience using Microsoft Office Suite
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- Deep understanding of the procurement and purchasing discipline/methodology
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- Presentation skills, including the ability to interface and clearly communicate with senior leadership
- Outstanding business and financial acumen
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- This position is remote with daily access to KC Headquarters if you are local and prefer to work in the office.
- The salary range for this job is between $110,000 and $130,000. Salary will take into consideration several factors including location.
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Sr Buyer- Software Acquisitions/Indirect - Kansas City, United States - Hallmark
Description
WHO WE ARE:The Indirect Global Procurement Team is a specialized organization involved in vendor selection; negotiation strategy; contracting process; and vendor management for the indirect products and services purchased at Hallmark. The Buyer partners with the business partners across all internal organizations and our subs (Crayola, Crown Media, etc.) to provide strategy, contracting, and negotiation options to the business while ensuring procurement best practices are contracted in the deals we lead. Our team is a respected and trusted partner to the senior leadership teams we support. Maintaining internal relationships is important and a critical part of the role. This is a fast-paced, highly visible position for an experienced procurement professional that is interested and experienced in procuring technology, specifically software (SaaS/Perpetual models), hardware, and technical services.
WHAT THE ROLE ENTAILS AND HOW YOU'LL CONTRIBUTE:
The Buyer for Technology is a sourcing professional within the procurement/supply chain/finance organization with 4+ years of direct experience sourcing software, hardware, and technical services.
The following is required to be considered for this role:
Your resume/application will stand out if you have:
You must show how you meet the basic qualifications in a resume or document you upload, or by completing the work experience and education application fields. Accepted file types are DOCX and PDF.
In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Hallmark Cards, Inc. and its subsidiary companies will hire only individuals lawfully authorized to work in the United States. Hallmark does not generally provide sponsorship for employment.
Employment by Hallmark is contingent upon the signing of the Employment Agreement, signing of an agreement to arbitrate in connection with the Hallmark Dispute Resolution Program, completing Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification, passing the urinalysis drug screen, education verification and satisfactory reference and background checks.
Hallmark is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other legally-protected status. Principals only please.
HALLMARK - Because Connecting With Each Other Has Never Been More Important
For more than a century, Hallmark has been bringing people together and improving the relationships that matter most. That's why millions of people all over the world connect with the Hallmark brand. It has always been a mission so much bigger than any one of us who work here. Today, we need empathetic learners, strategic thinkers, and enthusiastic visionaries with diverse experiences and skills to help us create the rest of Hallmark's second century as we shift to a more digitally savvy, unified approach that combines the best of brick-and-mortar retail with the efficiency of dot-com spaces. Help us imagine what our next hundred years could look like
When you join Hallmark, we will go out of our way to make you feel like part of the team, even in a remote/hybrid work environment. In the day-to-day, we'll make the best use of the skills and talents you already have. We'll also give you leadership opportunities and show you multiple potential pathways to future success.
Our culture of care for our consumers and for one another shows in the way we embrace different backgrounds, identities, and working styles, deliberately seeking out ways to be more inclusive both internally among our work groups and externally through the things we make and sell to our retail partners and consumers. We believe that a broadly inclusive, equitable approach is also our best path to future success. We're seeking out those who can bring a fresh perspective to our business and would love your input as someone new to our team We can only change and grow when we intentionally include new perspectives-like yours.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR c)
