Description

Rakuten Group provides various services such as EC, Fintech (Banks, Cards, Securities), Mobile, Sports business and so on.

Business Overview

The Technology Services Division to which the recruitment position belongs will be an organization that supports and empowers such services from an IT / Tech perspective.

Department Overview

This organization (IT Procurement Office) is in charge of IT-related product procurement for Rakuten Group, Inc (Headquarter) as well as for Rakuten global subsidiaries (partly). It has 2 groups (1. IT Sourcing Group and 2. IT Purchasing Group), and has a mission to contribute to Rakuten Benefit by Creating value through IT Procurement.

Job Role

Our IT Sourcing Group's role is to reduce and optimize procurement cost and implement procurement processes that comply with governance and compliance policy.

• Understand requesters' demand
• Find the candidate suppliers
• Negotiate with the suppliers
• Select the best solution with the requesters
• Execute the contract with the supplier (including supplier validation)

Work Environment

Approximately 20 people as an IT Procurement Office.

Approximately 9 of them as IT sourcing including its manager.

The member's age is mainly in the 30s - 40s (most of them are mid-career recruitment).

Mandatory Qualifications:

One of the below experiences is mandatory:

• Over 3 years of IT procurement experience
• Over 5 years of indirect procurement experience with basic IT knowledge skills
• Over 5 years of sales / pre-sales / SE / engineers / analyst experience in the categories listed below.

: Software used in various on-premises

: Public cloud (Azure, GCP, etc.)

: SaaS (CRM / CDN / Montoring Tool / Project Mangement tool, etc.)

: IT-related hardware such as Server / Storage / Network Appliance

Estimated Salary:

$80,000 - $110,000 per year