IT Category Manager
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Location
Middlesex, England
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£430 - £500 per annum
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Contact:
Adam Dennison
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Contact email:
adam.dennison@1st-executive.com
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Salary high:
500
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Salary low:
430
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Job ref:
J11133_1517832250
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Published:
about 6 years ago
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Duration:
6 months
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Expiry date:
2018-03-07
Role:
- 'IT Category Manager'
- Creating, managing and executing strategies for specified global spend categories within the responsibility scope of technology, (predominantly Software with some Hardware focus)
- Spend of roughly £100M+ in a team, which you will be the lead of.
- Assuring and maintaining supply, quality, service, cost and innovation within technology category
- Key Stakeholder Management and translating stakeholder needs into proposals (RFP's)
- Operating with a global focus
- Negotiating with suppliers to drive sustainable value from key relationships
Desired Characteristics/Skills:
- Extensive experience in hardware, software and services procurement
- Ability to work on a global scale
- Demonstrible experience of managing relationships with large software suppliers, e.g Microsoft, Intel.
- Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships at a high level up to VP & AVP in a matrix environment
- Ability to be a self starter and be proactive and autonomous
- Very energetic
- Able to easily get along with everybody and stakeholders can be very diverse so need to be able to adapt style
- Be able to understand the stakeholders needs and then translate into an RFP
Competencies:
- Have you ever managed a relationship with a large software supplier e.g. Microsoft?
- Have you worked in a matrix organisation before?
- Have you ever driven savings across a role with global focus before?
- Have you ever worked in an organisation undergoing a technological or digital transformation?
- Have you ever formally owned the relationship with a senior stakeholder? Have you ever translated the needs of a stakeholder into proposals?