Global IT Category Manager - Up to £75k - Watford
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Location
Watford
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
Up to £75000 per annum
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Contact:
Gemma Thompson
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Contact email:
gemma.thompson@1st-executive.com
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Job ref:
J690347_1684747579
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Published:
13 days ago
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Expiry date:
2023-06-21
Role: Global IT Category Manager
Location: Watford
Salary: up to £75k
Hybrid Working: 2 days a week in office
Are you an experienced IT Category Manager looking for an exciting Global opportunity?
The role is ideally suited to someone with experience in Services, Digital and/or Merchandising IT.
Key Responsibilities
Global Strategic Sourcing
- Executes global, international and national category plans via tools embedded in the strategic sourcing methodology and in collaboration with internal business partners
- Embraces regional international and cross-functional multi-cultural teams in the execution of the strategic sourcing process and the implementation of the strategy
- Develops and evolves product or service requirements across all brands and geographies
- Maximises opportunities to leverage multi-divisional requirements to create larger pools of sourcing to increase savings
- Prepares a regional negotiation plan and executes accordingly involving legal as necessary.
- Pro-actively uses state-of-the-art automated sourcing processes including but not limited to auctions, RFX's, and relationship management systems
Regional Vendor Management
- Manages the commercial element of supplier relationships
- Understands tradeoffs of risk, quality, and cost, and be able to manage each area through supplier management, contracting, and negotiations
- Maintains fair, courteous and productive relationships with all international strategic vendors and reinforces positive brand image within the vendor community
- Looks to identify or develop and incorporate innovative products, services, approaches such as off-shoring, out-sourcing, consortia development, best country sourcing to support low-cost producer strategy
Contract compliance
- Ensure that appropriate contractual terms are implemented ensuring that the agreed terms are carried out in practice
- Prepares IT category reports for their Manager and the GSPLT
Innovation
- Raises market innovation for the IT category and brings applicable ideas to the business for testing, cost modelling and performance measurement
People Management and Leadership
- Supports the optimization of £800 million indirect spend
- On a category basis, undertakes annual sourcing initiatives delivering between £1 and £2 million in yearly savings.
- Responsible and impacts up to £50 million (2019 spend) in IT spend in Europe but may also be involved in influencing global IT spend of £441 million (2019 spend)
- Manages key strategic and day to day operational regional supplier relationships by actively planning and delivering on action items through the management of regional and national account executives
- Actively represents within the global supplier community and the business world at large
- Vendor management and the harvesting of innovation from our vendor community is an integral part of the job description.
- Recommends category initiative within portfolio of spend (10 to 20 initiatives per year)
- Decides on negotiation plan and executes accordingly
- Recommendation for final vendor selection
Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Educated to degree level; membership of CIPS desirable
- Experience in off shoring and outsourcing
- Expertise in global strategic category sourcing
- Multi-country negotiations and contracts
- Experience/track record in managing multinational business partners
- IT category experience and knowledge
- GEP/Oracle or similar e-sourcing/P2P experience/knowledge
- Strong business and people management skills
- Excellent interpersonal relationship development skills
- Strong training & development skills
- Advanced Excel and Powerpoint is a must
