General Manager - IT Sourcing & Procurement

- Understand the nature of software spend across the company - the context, environment, systems, processes it supports and ecosystem.

- Review all existing contracts with explicit or embedded software elements - develop a standard template with best practices and fair clauses to protect company interest

- Develop a detailed profile of all software spend across categories, functions and agreements

- Develop and sustain strong relationships with all key software partners

- Identify innovative new commercial constructs for software - tie these constructs back to key business and operational metrics/crtieria

- Become the SME for software constructs like EULA, subscriptions and SaaS.

- Own the War on Waste agenda for software elements - particularly AMC.

- Breakdown the cost elements of software AMC and dramatically right size these costs. Identify alternate methods of supporting software, if needed.

- Drive compliance for all license and subscription based software assets through timely renewals of contracts, logging of all requisite licenses and paying our partners on time.

- Resolving all issues arising from disputes with partners expeditiously and fairly.

- Engage within supply chain and outside supply chain with other functions and suppliers to understand their needs and resolve pain points related to software.

- Track usage of licenses across different platforms and functions. Champion the reuse of these licenses to ensure that we are getting complete value from these contracts.

- Own and drive support on all tools, systems and reporting being used for software