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CoCo Polska is a Polish company and part of the global CoCo network, alongside CoCo Global in Great Britain, CoCo Africa in South Africa and CoCo Australia. As a company we built a proven methodology for identifying and delivering real, bottom-line cost reductions for enterprises. Our services are modular and can be mixed to provide the commercial optimization program that meets the customers challenges. We can assist in a number of ways to reduce costs, improve cost-to-income ratios or drive increased profit margins.

Due to ongoing expansion, we have newly created roles to join our current team for:

• IT Procurement Contract Manager
• IT Sourcing & Contract Manager

Our Poland office is located in Kraków - candidates must be based in Poland and either located in / around Kraków or remotely with availability for monthly travel to the office (eg team days / events).

Qualifications

• We are looking for candidates with experience in commercial, financial, or procurement / sourcing related areas.
• Must be experienced working within one of the following sectors: global financial services, banking, insurance, healthcare, private equity as well as 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 in vendor, cost and commercial management including cost reduction / optimisation programmes as well as supplier contract negotiation.
• Experience of working at all levels of an organisation, 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.

Role Description

• 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 analysing 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 across the world 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 analyse 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 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.
• In addition to our core Cost and Contract Optimisation 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 and www.coco-polska.com.

What we offer:

• Employment contract
• Stable employment in International company (CoCo Polska, CoCo Global, CoCo Africa, CoCo Australia)
• Private medical care for you and your family
• Annual bonus
• Sport card
• International travels
• Internal and external training catalogue
• Work-life Balance
• Hybrid work (1-2 days in the office each week)

Additional Benefits:

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• sharing the costs of foreign language classes
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• flexible working time
• coffee / tea
• parking space for employees
• Christmas gifts

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Purchasing and Supply Chain
• Business Consulting and Services

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