Irada Veliyeva is a Director Analyst at Gartner covering Application Services and System Integrators in the IT Sourcing, Procurement and Vendor Management area.
Mrs. Veliyeva covers the IT and business services market. She guides Gartner clients on all phases of the sourcing life cycle (sourcing strategy, purchase, and ongoing management).
With over 15 years of experience in IT Procurement and Transformation, Mrs. Veliyeva has led implementation of several technology and business transformation projects across EMEA region.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mrs. Veliyeva was responsible for the sourcing of IT Applications and IT services for global FMC Telecom company. Previously, she was the global Transformation lead for Procurement, Supply Chain and Innovation Technologies for an international Mobile operator.
Bakcell, Network and IT procurement Director, 4 years
Liberty Global, Group IT Procurement Senior Manager, 3 years
VEON, Global Procurement, Supply Chain Transformation and Innovations Lead, 4 years
IT Contracts Negotiations
IT Vendor Portfolio Management
IT Sourcing Strategy Development and Execution
MBA from Manchester Business School;
Administrative Management, Customs Business Organization Bachelor from Baku State University.
Application sourcing strategies, retained roles when outsourcing, insourcing versus outsourcing decisions
Evaluation and selection of application services providers
Application-service-related contract terms and conditions, negotiations, renegotiations, master service agreement (MSA), statement of work (SOW), request for proposal (RFP)
What to look for in a SaaS implementation service provider