Job Description
Role: IT Procurement Manager
Salary: up to £60k
Location: Basingstoke | 2 days a week |Hybrid working role
Role type: Permanent | Fulltime| UK based
Are you an experienced strategic IT Procurement professional looking for your next challenge? This is an exciting opportunity to join a well known organisation, specialising in IT categories, Hardware, software and Infrastructure.
Responsibilities overview:
As IT Category Manager you will play a key role in creating and executing short, medium and long term procurement strategies to maximise the purchasing power across IT, Data and Digital business functions.
You will have ownership of your own portfolio of suppliers and spend, with plenty of opportunity to shape the strategy and outcomes
Role Overview:
Build effective supplier relationships across strategic suppliers within the Technology services categories to mitigate risk and drive value
Optimise savings and value delivery through sustaining high levels of innovation.
Drive cost and value efficiencies, reducing risk through implementation of contractual rigour
Improving sustainability and facilitating the drive to improve the quality and reliability of the supply chain
Provide on-going reports to Finance and key budget holders across the group, with strong recommendations of opportunities for adding value, driving efficiencies
Conduct category planning approaches to aid budgeting and forecasting process
Execute Category Management and delivery of financial benefit through strong presentation and facilitation skills
Experience:
Strong experience of Procurement processes and full life cycle sourcing and category management, including opportunity and risk identification within an IT Procurement Environment
Experience of partnering business teams with the building and delivery of procurement strategies
Demonstrable experience of contract negotiation, influencing suppliers and managing stakeholders of all levels both internal and externally
Strong experience of managing supplier relationships and outcomes, through MI, KPI's and SRM
Experience of drafting and negotiating contracts