Jongeun Kim

Background

About Jongeun Kim

10 years of comprehensive experience as a Procurement Professional, handling IT/non-IT purchase requisitions and contracts in multiple industries including e-commerce, Finance, IT Services, and Auditing/Consulting. Currently, I'm working as the Head of Procurement at KPMG Ignition Tokyo which is leading the Digital Transformation of KPMG Group, globally known as one of the Big 4 Accounting Firms. Experience in planning, negotiating, and executing various contracts in multiple indirect sourcing categories including IT, HR, Marketing, Facilities, Professional Services, and Commodities- Hardware: Servers from Dell/HP/Huawei for private cloud service of the biggest E-commerce company in Japan - Cloud Services- Amazon Web Services - Enterprise Discount Program for +10 group companies in Japan, the US, EMEA, and APAC - Microsoft ESA and Server and Cloud Enrollment for adopting Microsoft 365 and Azure Cloud Service - Akamai Technologies CDN: Enabled global discount program for overseas subsidiaries to enjoy the cost-benefit- Has experience in negotiating directly with overseas vendors such as New Relic, Datadog, PagerDuty, CHEF, etc- Outsourcing: Managing and negotiating contracts with on/offshore outsourcing vendors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Vietnam, China, Philippines, Ukraine, America, UK- Non-IT Categories: moderately supporting purchase of services in categories such as Marketing, Law Firms, Patent, Travel, HR, Hiring, Facilities, Commodities, etc. Handling periodic tasks to manage vendors more efficiently and eventually improve their performance by performing- Vendor Due Diligence: Acquiring reports from external analytics vendors to assess the financial risk of vendors- Vendor Performance Evaluation: Sending internal customers questionnaires with questions in categories including Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Innovation- Vendor Security Assessment: Sending vendors questionnaires to assess their security status)- Benchmarking: Acquiring quotations from vendors that can be used as potential replacements and comparing their prices with incumbent vendors so that the price and performance can be properly maintained and negotiated when necessary. Led setting up procurement policy and process and helped implement and maintain Procure to Pay solutions for multiple companies utilizing experiences in SAP Ariba, Concur, Coupa, Microsoft Sharepoint, and Intramart. Also have worked as a System Presales Engineer/System Administrator for multiple global companies in industries including Telecommunications, Internet Service Providers, and BPO.