Consultant Procurement (Marketing, IT, Professional Services)

Responsibilities

+ Advise a company in the sports apparel/clothing sector on cost savings in procurement for indirect spends

+ Find quick wins, find new suppliers, challenge existing suppliers

+ Support the process end-to-end

+ Provide best practices for specific savings potentials

Project Number:

1085331

Project Title:

1085331 Consultant Procurement (Marketing, IT, Professional Services)

Job Type:

Freelance

Requirements

Marketing

IT – Profile 1: IT Generalist

IT – Profile 2: Vendor and Contract Expert

Ideally, one person can cover both IT profiles.

Professional Services

Additional Information:

SOLCOM is one of the leading technology service providers in software development, IT, and engineering. For over 20 years, we have been a partner to globally operating top companies in all industries and are active worldwide wherever innovation is decisive.

• Experienced expert in marketing procurement and agency management with a strong mix of procurement and marketing experience, ideally in a global consumer goods, sports apparel, retail, or similarly brand-oriented company
• Experience in optimizing creative, marketing, production, and event agency costs, as well as in achieving concrete savings
• Experience in transitioning from fragmented agency and freelancer assignments to preferred agency networks, including consolidation, tenders, framework agreements, compensation models, and supplier management
• Expertise in structural savings beyond price negotiations, particularly scope and service level optimization, agency fees, production costs, and third-party surcharges
• Ability to contribute concrete best practices and impulses for a preferred supplier model and to support procurement in discussions with marketing
• Experience in the functional design of RFP (Request for Proposal) packages
• Experience in IT procurement, ideally in the fashion industry, online retail, retail, or consumer goods sector
• Ability to quickly identify above-average costs, redundancies, and consolidation potentials based on spending, vendors, contracts, and use cases
• Experience with software contracts, licensing models, and identifying concrete quick wins
• Ability to support the process from analysis to the implementation of savings measures
• In-depth expertise on specific vendors, their solutions, licensing models, and negotiation margins
• Experience in analyzing and optimizing existing software contracts with leading technology companies
• Priority A: Alphabet with Google Workspace, Gemini and Looker, Microsoft with mandatory experience in Dynamics 365, as well as Salesforce, Slack, Contentful, and Own Company
• Priority B: SPS Commerce, Infor, Workday, Anaplan, and Narvar
• Ability to review existing contracts at short notice and identify concrete savings, consolidation, and renegotiation potentials
• Practical experience in procurement and management of external services in consumer goods, apparel, footwear, or sports apparel companies
• Category expertise in financial services including accounting and auditing, legal services, management consulting, and ideally temporary staffing
• Knowledge of leading providers, market mechanisms, compensation models, and concrete savings levers
• Legal Services: Experience with service portfolios, price comparisons, compensation models, and law firm panels
• Auditing: Experience with audit fees, regulatory requirements, and negotiation margins
• Experience in identifying quick wins, selecting new suppliers, and supporting the sourcing process from analysis to implementation

Project details

11/16/2026

30-60 hours +++

• Start: 2026-11-16
• Duration: 1 Monat
• Remote: remote
• Location: Remote, Deutschland, DE
• Languages: German