IT Senior Procurement Specialist

CoCo Polska; Kraków; On-site; PLN 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

CoCo Polska seeks an IT Senior Procurement Specialist based in Poland to lead procurement cost-reduction efforts across client engagements. You will craft negotiation strategies, review contracts, and coordinate with IT and business stakeholders to deliver measurable savings.

The role requires deep experience in procurement, strong Excel/Office skills, and the ability to manage complex supplier relationships across geographies. Poland-based work is expected.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in commercial, financial, or procurement/sourcing areas.
• Experience in supplier contract negotiations and cost reduction programmes.
• Strong Excel and MS Office proficiency for modelling and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients to create negotiation strategies and execute cost-saving initiatives.
• Analyze contracts, invoices, and spend data to identify savings opportunities.
• Collaborate with IT and purchasing stakeholders across regions to drive cost take-out.

Skills

Negotiation skills

Stakeholder management

Microsoft Office

Procurement experience

Tools

Excel

Job description

CoCo Polska is a Polish company and part of Coco Global in Great Britain and Coco Africa in South Africa. As a company we built a proven methodology for identifying and delivering real, bottom-line cost reduction for enterprises. Our services are modular and can be mixed to provide the commercial optimisation programme that meets the customer's challenges. We can assist in a number of ways to reduce costs, improve cost-to-income ratios or drive increased profit margins.

Coco Polska is looking for IT Senior Procurement Specialist - Location POLAND

To be considered for this role, you must be based in Poland and have the legal right to work in Poland.

Responsibilites:

• Work with our Clients to create clear negotiation strategies for supplier or contract opportunities and execute these as cost saving initiatives
• Be responsible for performing deep-dive activity across cost base, forensically analyzing contracts, invoices and spend data to provide a holistic view of supplier’s contracts and spend
• Act as primary interface with Business Functions, IT & Purchasing Stakeholders (often across many geographies) to understand products and/or services and collaboratively devise strategies and opportunities for executable cost reductions or cost take-out.
• Conduct reviews with technical teams as a demand challenge layer to analyze technical solutions, licensing volumes, SLAs, services and evaluate opportunities for right-sizing, cost reductions and risk appetite decisions to be discussed / agreed
• Review inventory data to understand any growth or decline trends, plus future strategies and roadmaps of particular technologies / solutions
• Contribute towards programme deliverables including initiative tracking, MI reporting and dashboards to demonstrate activity is being progressed, maintain a view of upcoming initiatives and savings delivered
• Be responsible for compiling savings evidence to provide clear figures of in-year and annual run-rate savings as well as payment profiles of contracts
• Create cash and P&L views for contracts to inform understanding of spend profiles using CoCo tools
• Create commercial propositions including benefits and overview of costs
• Supporting Customers with supplier negotiations and drafting contract terms
• Run RFP processes (where appropriate) to seek better commercial terms for existing services or by selection of replacement services with better value
• Produce comprehensive business cases, (where appropriate), with P&L and Cash modelling for services to demonstrate how the financial benefits are structured over various time horizons
• In addition to our core Cost and Contract Optimization Services CoCo also offer and deliver a range of related operational and consultancy services, and you will also be expected to delivery such projects from time to time to deliver the customers’ requirements – a description of these ancillary services can be found on the CoCo Global website www.coco.global.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in commercial, financial, or procurement / sourcing related areas .
• Must be experience of working within one of more of the following sectors: global financial services, insurance, healthcare, private equity, fintechs and technology companies.
• Good experience of financial modelling, P&L vs. Cash positions, account treatment of OpEx and CapEx, depreciation lifecycles, VAT recovery etc.
• Demonstrable experience of supplier contract negotiation.
• Demonstrable experience in vendor, cost and commercial management including cost reduction / optimisation programmes.
• Good knowledge of IT Infrastructure technical platforms / technologies, execution of IT vendor management policies.
• Good understanding of the IT global delivery model and future roadmap.
• Experience of working at all levels of an organization, demonstrating excellent stakeholder management ability.
• Flexibility, the job holder must be able to adapt to changing CoCo and customer requirements.
• Work alone or within a larger team, but it is essential you are a self-starter and are able to devise your own strategies and approaches to solve customer problems
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products especially Excel.

What we offer:

• Employment contract
• Stable employment in Polish start-up
• Private medical care for you and your family
• Sport card
• International travels
• Internal and external training catalogue