At IBM Finance & Operations, we are the backbone of IBM’s transformation driving efficiency, transparency, and smart decision-making across the business. Our teams provide the insight and discipline that guide strategy, ensure financial strength, and enable IBM to invest in innovation and growth. Working in Finance & Operations means combining analytical skills with collaboration and curiosity. You’ll partner with colleagues across functions and geographies, using data, technology, and process excellence to create solutions that improve performance and deliver measurable impact. IBM offers continuous learning, career development, and a culture that values diverse perspectives. Join us and be part of a global team that keeps IBM moving forward, while building your own future in a dynamic and evolving environment.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Procurement Sourcing Specialist, you will play a key role in sourcing commodity demand in line with the global sourcing strategy. This specialist role is a core specialty in global procurement sourcing and requires deep industry knowledge of the commodity being sourced. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Source Commodity Demand: Understand the demand, establish the appropriate suppliers, and provide cost-effective and high-quality supply in line with the global sourcing strategy created by the particular sourcing council. • Analyze Data and Benchmark: Apply data and benchmarking insights to inform sourcing decisions and ensure alignment with the global sourcing strategy. • Negotiate with Suppliers: Engage in negotiations with suppliers, taking into account the strategic positioning of the supplier with regards to IBM strategic sourcing decisions. • Document Sourcing Process: Document sourcing activities in a structured and auditable way to ensure transparency and accountability throughout the sourcing process. • Build Supplier Relationships: Develop and maintain relationships with suppliers, influencing them to meet IBM's strategic sourcing objectives.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Exposure to Sourcing Techniques: Familiarity with sourcing methods and tools to analyze data and negotiate with suppliers effectively. • Industry Knowledge of Commodities: Understanding of the commodities being sourced, including market trends and supplier dynamics. • Data Analysis and Benchmarking: Experience working with data and benchmarking insights to inform sourcing decisions and drive cost savings. • Supplier Relationship Management: Exposure to building and maintaining relationships with suppliers to meet business objectives. • Sourcing Process Documentation: Familiarity with documenting sourcing activities in a structured and auditable way to ensure transparency and accountability.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Deep Industry Knowledge: Experience working with industry-specific data and benchmarking insights to inform sourcing decisions and drive cost savings. Understanding of the commodities being sourced, including market trends and supplier dynamics. • Advanced Sourcing Techniques: Exposure to complex sourcing methods and tools to analyze data and negotiate with suppliers effectively. Familiarity with applying data and benchmarking insights to inform sourcing decisions. • Strategic Supplier Relationships: Experience working with suppliers to meet business objectives, including influencing them to meet strategic sourcing objectives and negotiating contracts.

Years of Experience:
4 - 5

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM’s financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk. Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

When applying to jobs of your interest, we recommend that you do so for those that match your experience and expertise. Our recruiters advise that you apply to not more than 3 roles in a year for the best candidate experience. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

This job is no longer accepting applications

See open jobs at IBM.See open jobs similar to "Procurement Sourcing Specialist" WCT-FCT.

See more open positions at IBM

Privacy policy Cookie policy