Category Manager- IT & Professional Services
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Location
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£450.00 - £500.00 per day
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Contact:
Rebecca Tiller
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Contact email:
rebecca.tiller@1st-executive.com
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Salary high:
500
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Salary low:
450
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Job ref:
J10858_1510312963
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Published:
over 6 years ago
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Expiry date:
2017-12-10
1st Executive are retained by a UK-wide Financial Services Organisation, who are undergoing a major transformation of their existing function. As such they require an experienced procurement professional with a proven track record across both IT & Professional Services categories, ideally complex and multi-faceted in structure and definition. Based in the North-West, this will be an excellent opportunity with a leading organisation in their field within Financial Services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Business Engagement and requirements gathering on complex projects across pre-dominantly the IT & Professional Services spend categories
- Provide commercial leadership and knowledge to the business
- Support the development of category strategies
- Lead on commercial negotiations with suppliers
Required Experience:
- End-to-end procurement experience across IT & Professional Services
- Ability to navigate complex business structure and work cross-functionally.
- Managing stakeholder expectations and be able to effectively communicate with those based cross-functionally where translation of requirements is essential.
- Previous sole responsibility for significant category spend for a strategically orientated programme.
- Ideally prior experience working in a procurement function undergoing business transformation.
- Background in Financial Services/Professional Services
- Availble to start within 2 weeks