Purchasing and Procurement Specialist

Job Description

Warner Bros. Games New York works with some of the top talent in the game industry to build online competitive and social features for video games. Our highly experienced team of engineers utilize cutting-edge technology to build game services that are robust and scalable enough to support world-class developers such as NetherRealm Studios, Rocksteady, Monolith Productions, Warner Bros. Games Montréal, and more!

WB Games Inc. seeks a Purchasing and Procurement Specialist for the WB Games NY Studio.

Some of the responsibilities of the Purchasing and Procurement Specialist will include working with the individual WB Game studios to initiate purchase requests for various hardware, software, technology licenses, etc., and coordinate budgets for each.

Your Role Accountabilities
• Experience supporting procurement in a large, distributed IT organization
• Purchase licenses, technology, hardware, and other assets on behalf of game studios
• Create, process and track purchase requests
• Improve purchase workflows, processes, and procedures to find efficiencies in our Purchase process.
• Monitor and track global license renewals.
• Work closely with vendors and stakeholders to achieve desired results.
• Collaborating with WBD Procurement organization to gain efficiency and support.
• Ensure WBIE meets compliance and audit requirements.

Qualifications & Experience
• Global procurement knowledge
• Understanding business needs and delivering against them
• Bachelor's or a mix of education and 7+ years' experience
• Analytic, strong problem-solving skills
• Strong decision-making capabilities
• Self-motivated and proactive, demonstrated follow-through skills
• Knowledge of financial management principles and product life cycles
• Experience with vendor management

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

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