Key responsibilities for this role:
- Manage and negotiate critical contracts, pricing, and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities for improvement and managing associated benefits
- Conduct supplier relationship reviews to ensure compliance and continue to build relationships
- Continue to build on strong relationships throughout the business, in particular Information Management to increase engagement with the Procurement team
- Continue to run risk management strategies across the supply network
- Designing sourcing strategies for a variety of IT products and services in accordance with a Procurement & Contracts Manual and procurement value risk thresholds
- Delivering key stakeholder objectives over various timescales
- Bringing innovative working practices to the team and able to work across the IT Portfolio projects, BAU renewals.
- Coaching team members
- Managing 1 direct report
- Procurement SME in technology sourcing, contract and vendor management
- End-to-end strategic sourcing
- Strong negotiation and communication skills
- Experience working on big challenges against tight deadlines
- Confident working independently and collaboratively