Role: Procurement Manager - IT & Indirects

Location: North of Oxford

Hybrid: 2 days office, 3 days WFH

Salary: £50-70k + broader package

Excellent opportunity to join a fantastic corporation that is continuing to expand and offers brilliant progression opportunities to the right candidate. You'd be joining an agile, centralised procurement team which partners with various stakeholders and suppliers across numerous European teams.

Procurement is already embedded and highly regarded across the business, and you'd be joining as the team undergoes a transformation to provide an even higher level of Procurement support to all stakeholders across the business.

This role as a Procurement Category Manager Position focused on Indirects such as IT (Hardware and Software), HR, Professional Services and the possibility of touching upon broader general indirect categories. The category will encompass both local and global procurement and tenders. Excitingly, relationship building and business partnering will be a core focus of this role, and ideally a core strength of a successful candidate.

Responsibilities:

• End to end Procurement / Category Management for IT, HR and other general indirect categories
• Lead or support sourcing initiatives from strategy, through RFx, negotiations, contracting, and ongoing supplier relationship management (SRM)
• Provide Procurement and Commercial support to stakeholders
• Work closely with senior stakeholders, such as CIO
• Liaise with Legal teams on the negotiation of Supplier contracts.
• Support the Sourcing Transformation team on a variety of initiatives including Contract Management, SRM and Onboarding, Procurement policy & reporting

Experience

• End-to-end strategic sourcing experience
• Commercial and contractual knowledge (including licensing, SaaS and other relevant IT terms and conditions)
• Skilled at managing and building strong relationships across a business at all seniority levels
• Knowledge of P2P, eSourcing systems, and other relevant tools and systems used to support Procurement

If interested, please apply ASAP