Manage global category managers team located in North America and Europe responsible for IT contract lifecycle management for Solution Delivery and Engineering Technology across Jacobs Enterprise.

- Lead source to contract activities Including contract drafting and negotiation for Technology categories resulting in up to 60% savings and cost avoidance, such as Cloud services, on-premises software licenses, professional services, managed services, enterprise hardware, and Network security software.- Collaborate with Business units to discuss, agree on, and execute a strategy for sourcing competitive bidding events and negotiations.- Utilize multiple levers appropriate for the IT Software and Services Category to continually assist the business unit to achieve category strategy goals.- Negotiate existing services and license agreements via strategic sourcing and lever savings through volume and lock the price for multi-year deals.- Negotiate the contract’s T&C including SLAs, Cybersecurity policy, payment terms, and mitigate risk by providing a safe exit. (T4C)- Lead complex RFx (e.g. RFP, RFI, auctions) processes on behalf of multiple business units including Technology Software and SaaS.- Collaborate with Legal, Business, and TPRM on contract execution and ensure the vendor follows our standard contract language.- Collaborate with the Asset Management team to achieve efficiency by reviewing and consolidating maintenance renewals and identifying the roadmap

- Lead source to contract activities for Technology including Software, hardware, and professional services and add value by creating savings and risk mitigation.- Lead a team of offshore sourcing agents and define KPIs, goals, playbooks and workflow improvements.- Assist in category plan development questions including Key activities Stakeholder planning, scope, and segmentation and business requirements.- Maximizing the saving through VARs (Value added reseller) for the corporate existing contracts.- Review each Software/SaaS holistically within my organization's responsibilities and sync up with the business to determine the roadmap and future state.- Maintain vendor’s performance to comply with existing SLAs and lead the processes of RFP/ RFIEstablished a relationship with Legal and worked on streamlining the overall process.- Lead NO PO NO PAY initiative to drive efficiency and compliance across the organization for Indirect spending as part of process improvements.

- Managed the technology categories including IT Equipment, Software, Hardware, and professional services- Implementation of the seven steps process of strategic sourcing to improve cost saving.- Sourced and negotiated new products and services through RFX and Delivered 15% savings on call-off projects.- Presented monthly reports to executive management for savings and cost avoidance.Collaboration with cross-functional teams including business owners and legal team.- Trained new buyers on the process, policy, and procedures and monitored our major spending for leveraging savings.- Managed and support the P&L of the following regions: USA, UK, UAE, and Iraq.- Developed a large, categorized database including materials, labor, and other needed cost details that could be used in bidding on future projects.- Support the project managers on project spending and tracking invoices to ensure proper vendor payment and Accounts Receivable collections from customers.