Sr Specialist, Tech Purchasing

Title: Sr Specialist Tech Purchasing

About This Role

Gartner is searching for a Senior Specialist Contract/Proposal Review to join our BuySmart India COE. The Senior Specialist Contract/Proposal Review will be responsible for leveraging technology to analyze contracts and collaborate with internal subject matter experts (Gartner Analysts) to help clients identify critical variances in their contracts.

This role provides an opportunity to learn the intricacies of different vendor contracts and how clients can optimize costs and overcome challenges associated with complex high-value IT contracts.

What youll do:

• Liaise with internal associates and subject matter experts (Gartner Analysts) in relation to clients review inquires.
• Develop a deep understanding of contract and commercial terms (including their potential risks and benefits).
• Extract relevant commercial terms and pricing data from clients contracts into individual client specific forms.
• Analyze contract variations to uncover standard/non-standard terms that clients should negotiate.
• Manage creation of contract benchmarks (e.g. pricing) within Gartner systems based on vendor categories.
• Perform quality assurance testing of completed work.
• Ensure that all SLAs are met and are fully supported across all varied requests.
• Support periodic reporting and analysis on key performance and benchmarking metrics.
• Identify ways to improve quality of analysis/insights and broader processes through scalable efficient means.
• Provide floor support and help the team members analyze complex inquiries.
• Take independent ownership of multiple vendors for managing and enhancing deliverable quality.
• Independently manage training of new joiners and provide initial support.
• Ensure an error-free database by regularly monitoring the data for any potential outliers.

What youll need:

We are looking for creative articulate and self-motivated individuals who would like to work in a process-driven team-based environment. Our search for talent is centered without exception on the ability to be organized pay strong attention to detail and work autonomously (i.e. high degree of self-reliance/self-starter). Some of the shared characteristics of our successful hires include:

• 5 years of prior experience
• Adaptability to fast paced environment and changing business requirements while effectively prioritizing based on value of business to Gartner.
• Ability to effectively process high volume and variety of incoming requests by multi-tasking.
• Experience handling multiple priority activities/projects at once within allotted SLA.
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills incorporating requirements action plan and timeline when communicating with internal subject matter experts.
• Strong interpersonal relationship building and time management skills.

Who You Are

• Strong appetite to dive deep into a given content terrain to develop expertise and distill key findings.
• Ability to gather analyze restructure identify and create original insights from qualitative and/or quantitative data.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with particular attention to precision of language and ability to organize information logically.

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