IT Business Management Specialist - Corporate IT (Kansas City)
Kansas City, Missouri
Employer: Burns & McDonnell
Industry: Information Technology
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
Description
This role requires an experienced professional that will help negotiate purchasing and renewal software contracts that maximizes the value for technology assets. The applicant should have vendor management experience and work with key stakeholder to track, maintain and coordinate license and maintenance agreement renewals and procurements. Applicant should be comfortable with software contract language and able to negotiate with vendors advancing the needs of Burns & McDonnell. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, detail oriented, and builds partnerships with stakeholders. This is an in-office position in our Kansas City office.
Contract/Compliance
IT Asset Management
Financial
Vendor
Qualifications
This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled
EEO/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans
Job Information Technology
Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City
Schedule: Full-time
Travel: No
Req ID: 243269
Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-SN #COR
This role requires an experienced professional that will help negotiate purchasing and renewal software contracts that maximizes the value for technology assets. The applicant should have vendor management experience and work with key stakeholder to track, maintain and coordinate license and maintenance agreement renewals and procurements. Applicant should be comfortable with software contract language and able to negotiate with vendors advancing the needs of Burns & McDonnell. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, detail oriented, and builds partnerships with stakeholders. This is an in-office position in our Kansas City office.
Contract/Compliance
- Provide information associated with litigation and software compliance, contracts, and EULAs.
- Support establishment of contract management procedures, tools and methodologies to implement the contract in accordance with its terms, documenting and managing records with the objective to maintain complete contract documentation files and audit trail.
- Identification, assessment and management of risk-related areas in the contract execution and support rigorous and effective risk management processes.
- Determines license position for projects, true-ups and audits, and contract and license maintenance renewals using available financial and installation data.
- Develop standard processes and manage the contract change request, contract amendment and management lifecycle, understanding all aspects of Contract Management tools, templates, processes and governance.
IT Asset Management
- Assist in the IT Service lifecycle management plan for all equipment, hardware, and software licensing.
- Responsible for software and hardware management efforts, including true-up reporting, version control and catalog updates.
- Supports SAM tools, processes and procedures to automate the collection, storage and reporting of key software data so that the products can be managed across the enterprise in an effective manner.
- Actively assesses risk and cost reduction opportunities and makes recommendations to Service Owners and Software Asset Management leadership to optimize the software asset portfolio.
Financial
- Collects and maintains accurate software licensing information to address budgeting, software compliance and inventory, contracts, and cost. Forecasts IT asset investments and service costs and provides recommendations.
- Analyze project business cases, challenge financial spending, savings and benefit assumptions, and assist in the formulation and understand project benefits in the market context of competitive pressures and business challenges.
- Perform Financial Analysis & Reviews such as TCO and ROI on Project Requests to facilitate funding approval.
Vendor
- Establish internal standards, processes, and templates for working with vendors and automating processes where applicable.
- Understand IT vendor spending by category, cost center, region, and vendor.
- Lead collaboration between IT and Procurement, Legal, and Finance Services to maximize contract value and mitigate risk.
- Work proactively with IT Service Owners to identify area of opportunity to assist procurement staff when negotiating with vendors to optimize the procurement of cost-effective acquisitions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, business, finance, economics or management or related field etc. Applicable years of experience maybe substituted for degree requirement.
- Minimum 4 years of experience required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient computer skills including Microsoft Office suite.
- Thrive and excel in ad-hoc situations preferred.
- Comfortable working with and analyzing large data sets preferred.
This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled
EEO/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans
Job Information Technology
Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City
Schedule: Full-time
Travel: No
Req ID: 243269
Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-SN #COR
Created: 2024-08-22
Reference: 35DCFA44092F45D997514F90AFD08B00
Country: United States
State: Missouri
City: Kansas City
ZIP: 64161
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