Senior Procurement Analyst - IT Focus

We are more than 40 thousand people acting with a focus on security, integrity, collaboration, and simplification, the pillars that sustain our culture. We generate value for our shareholders, customers, partners, and employees through an integrated business ecosystem that begins with sugarcane cultivation and reaches the production and commercialization of ethanol, sugar, and bioenergy. We also operate – under license from the Shell brand – in the distribution of fuels, lubricants, and other specialties in Brazil, in addition to refining operations in Argentina and the distribution of fuel derivatives and lubricants in Argentina and Paraguay. Did you identify with this? We are looking for a Senior Procurement Analyst - IT Focus to join the Procurement team in Piracicaba - SP.

Responsibilities and assignments

🎯HOW YOUR DAY-TO-DAY WILL BE:

• Strategic sourcing management: conduct procurement processes for IT consultancies (projects, agile squads/streams, software factories, cybersecurity services, and products), from understanding the demand to contract signing;
• Senior negotiation: lead complex commercial negotiations, ensuring the best conditions for price, contracting model, scope, SLAs, fines, adjustments, indices, governance levels, and contractual flexibility;
• Financial and value analysis: perform TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) analyses, market benchmarking, should cost, make or buy scenarios, and evaluation of pricing models (hourly, package, FTE, outcome-based);
• Contract management: draft, review, and administer contracts, addenda, and renewals, ensuring adherence to internal policies, risk mitigation, and company protection;
• Performance management: define, monitor, and negotiate SLAs, KPIs, and supplier performance indicators, promoting continuous improvement plans and active governance;
• Supplier relationship and development: act as a focal point for strategic suppliers, conducting evaluations, renegotiations, and innovation initiatives;
• Stakeholder interface: act in a consultative manner with IT and business areas, supporting strategic decisions, clarifying commercial impacts, and proposing contracting alternatives;
• Compliance and governance: ensure compliance with internal policies, audit processes, legal requirements, information security, and market best practices;
• Continuous improvement of procurement processes: identify opportunities for process optimization, contractual standardization, supplier rationalization, and efficiency gains in IT management.

Requirements and qualifications

🔎WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE:

• Completed higher education in Administration, Engineering, Economics, Information Technology, or related fields;
• Solid experience in Procurement (Purchasing), acting in a structured manner in complex negotiations, contract management, and supplier relationship;
• Experience in contract management, SLAs, fines, and adjustments;
• Ability to perform financial analyses of proposals, including TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), benchmarking, and comparative evaluations between suppliers;
• Integrated performance with internal areas, such as Legal, Finance, and demanding areas, ensuring alignment between commercial strategy and business needs;
• Intermediate English, with the ability to read, understand, and interact in meetings, contracts, and commercial proposals;
• Availability to work 100% on-site in Piracicaba/SP or São Paulo/SP.

Differentials:

• Knowledge or experience in Information Technology, especially in the context of software development projects, squads, agile streams, software factories, services, and cybersecurity solutions;
• Practical experience with IT consultancy contracting models, such as Time & Material, Fixed Price, FTE, and outcome-based or success fee models;
• Familiarity with SLAs, technical KPIs, and quality indicators applied to technology contracts;
• Knowledge of LGPD, information security, and cyber risks, especially applied to contractual clauses and supplier evaluation;
• Advanced English, with the ability to conduct negotiations, meetings, and contractual discussions fluently with international suppliers.

Additional information

STAGES OF THE SELECTION PROCESS:

Our process includes 3 main stages (there may be others, and you will be informed if you advance):

1. Application - filling out this form and additional data, if necessary.
2. Intelligent Interview: In this stage, you will participate in an audio interview supported by artificial intelligence, a technology that helps us make the process more agile and standardized. Your answers will be analyzed by the recruitment team, together with the other stages of the process.
3. Interview with HR - a chat for us to get to know each other.
4. Interview with leadership: a more technical chat to tell you even more about the day-to-day and the challenges.

Our communication will be via email and telephone - please check if your data is up to date.