Verint
Senior Procurement Specialist
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Overview
The Verint Global Procurement Team is looking to build upon the past few years of incredible growth and success by further developing our Global Procurement team. We already provide excellent and growing commercial support to underpin Verint’s strategic objectives, and by joining us now at this exciting time, you will be integral to develop this further.
We are looking for a Senior Procurement Specialist, Technology and SaaS Sourcing, with proven experience in software, SaaS, cloud and hosting procurement to manage a portfolio of significant technology spend ~$20m and strategic suppliers. The role is expected to proactively identify opportunities across vendor consolidation, demand management, license optimization, contract restructuring, renewal strategy, and supplier rationalization. This is a senior individual contributor role requiring strong commercial judgment, deep technology procurement expertise and the ability to independently lead complex initiatives and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority. You will be expected to manage competing priorities, lead supplier negotiations with limited supervision, identify and deliver measurable commercial value, and collaborate confidently with cross-functional teams including IT, Legal, Finance, Security, Services and Operations.
Principal Duties and Essential Responsibilities
- Owns commercial and contractual negotiations with new and existing software, SaaS, cloud, hosting and technology service provider vendors, including renewals, new purchases, expansions, consolidations and terminations.
- Ensures appropriate procurement involvement in major vendor engagements, including renewals, new purchases, vendor rationalization, supplier selection, and strategic vendor management activity.
- Delivers savings and value-add through proactive negotiation of new agreements, renewals, consolidations and terminations, supported by benchmarking, market comparison, commercial analysis and cost modelling.
- Analyzes and drives the development and execution of category plans for software and SaaS spend, helping identify pipeline opportunities, risks, renewals, commercial levers and stakeholder decisions required.
- Reviews and leads the negotiations of key software and SaaS commercial terms including pricing structures, license metrics, renewal rights, termination rights, usage commitments, service schedules, order forms and support terms. Present commercial recommendations, sourcing strategies, risks, alternatives and negotiation outcomes to senior stakeholders.
- Act as a trusted commercial advisor to senior Technology and business leaders, providing procurement expertise and commercial insight to support significant technology investment decisions. Establishes strong global cooperation and alignment with IT, Finance, Legal, Security, Services and Operations to ensure procurement activity is commercially robust and operationally practical.
- Ensures all procurement activities follow the Global Procurement policy and procedures.
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Minimum Requirements
- Experience of procurement, strategic sourcing or supplier management experience, with significant experience in software, SaaS, cloud, hosting or enterprise technology sourcing.
- Demonstrated success in independently leading supplier negotiations and renewals, including preparing negotiation strategies, analysing supplier proposals, challenging pricing, managing escalations, and securing measurable commercial outcomes.
- Strong experience reviewing and interpreting software and SaaS agreements, order forms, service schedules, renewal terms, termination rights, usage commitments and license structures in partnership with Legal and business stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent software and SaaS projects from intake through contract execution, including stakeholder engagement, supplier management, savings tracking and governance compliance
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Preferred Requirements
- Experience managing software development, enterprise software, SaaS, cloud, IaaS, hosting and technology service provider vendors and related spend.
- Experience with vendor consolidation, renewal planning, license optimization, software asset management or post-merger supplier rationalization.
- Professional Procurement qualification is desirable.
- Prior experience working with enterprise technology suppliers such as Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, AWS, Oracle, Workday, Zoom, Docusign or similar vendors.
- Familiarity with software asset management, usage analysis, licence optimisation, pricing benchmarks, supplier commercial models, market comparison data and emerging technology trends.
- Prior experience with a leading technology company.
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