
- Type Learning
- Level Intermediate
- Time Weeks
- Cost Free
IT Services Sourcing Expert
Issued by
P&G
Earners have successfully developed and executed robust sourcing strategies in IT Services, and coached others on IT Services because of their deep market knowledge of IT Services vendors. They have negotiated IT/GBS service agreements with proper governance and control measures; they have successfully delivered benchmarks and analysis of the industry; finally, they have demonstrated ability to manage relationships, including escalations.
- Type Learning
- Level Intermediate
- Time Weeks
- Cost Free
Skills
Earning Criteria
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Earners are P&G employees
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Suggested Purchases Skill L1 qualification as pre-requisite or similar experience.
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Accomplish the "Intro to IT Sourcing" course
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Know and apply the "IT Negotiation toolkit"
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Know and apply the "Master/Supplemental Agreements"
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Know the "Buyer’s Guide to Privacy and InfoSec (Exhibits A, B, and C)"
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Know the "SLA Builder Tool"
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Know Labor Classification (Staff Aug/IT Services)
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Accomplish the "SOW Tool Kit Training"
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Demonstrated application of traditional and emerging contract/vendor performance models; deep market knowledge of IT Services vendors; understand terms in IT agreements and impact/risk to business; mentor/coach others on IT Services; create commercial opportunities for the business within the IT Services domain; Demonstrated understanding of StaffAug vs IT Services and the risk to P&G
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Developed & aligned a sourcing strategy OR Process managed a sourcing strategy action plan with demonstrated interventions.
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Completed two examples of Sourcing Analytics (i.e. Procurement, Supplier, Industry, Cost Benchmark)
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Negotiated at least one master service agreement, leveraging a negotiation plan aligned with stakeholders.
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Relationship Owner and led intervention for IT/GBS Services supplier
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Negotiated SLA (site level agreement) desired results.