02 Oct
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Verdantas
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Pune
Join Verdantas – A Top #ENR 73 Firm
The Software Procurement Lead will be responsible for overseeing software procurement, vendor partnerships, licensing, renewals, compliance, ServiceNow processes, reporting, and AI-enabled automation to drive operational efficiency, cost optimization, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
Procurement & Vendor Management
• Analyze software and technology-service requirements in partnership with internal stakeholders.
• Research, evaluate, and coordinate with vendors and suppliers to support sourcing decisions.
• Negotiate pricing, commercial terms, renewals, and contract conditions in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
• Process and track procurement requests, purchase orders, subscriptions, renewals, entitlements, invoices, and receiving activities.
• Resolve supplier, ordering, licensing, renewal, and invoicing issues in a timely manner.
• Identify cost-saving, consolidation, and value-optimization opportunities while maintaining business continuity
Governance, Risk & Compliance
• Establish and follow procurement governance standards, approval controls, compliance checkpoints, and escalation paths.
• Maintain audit-ready records for purchases, contracts, approvals, renewals, entitlements, invoices, and supplier decisions.
• Support policy compliance, risk reviews, licensing controls, and appropriate segregation of duties.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, Security, and IT teams to ensure procurement activity meets organizational and contractual requirements.
ServiceNow & Process Integration
• Use ServiceNow to manage procurement requests, purchase orders, software assets, entitlements, renewals, and related workflow activities.
• Ensure procurement and software asset data is accurate, complete, and aligned across relevant processes and systems.
• Partner with ServiceNow administrators, developers, IT asset teams, and process owners to improve integration and workflow effectiveness.
Reporting, Metrics & Operatio
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