IT Supplier Relationship Manager - £55K
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Location
Bristol, England
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£45000 - £55000 per annum + Car Allowance + Excellent Benefits
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Contact:
Diane Marjoram
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Contact email:
Diane.Marjoram@1st-executive.com
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Salary high:
55000
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Salary low:
45000
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Job ref:
J14881B_1626798632
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Published:
over 2 years ago
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Expiry date:
2021-08-19
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Startdate:
ASAP
Role: IT Supplier Relationship Manager
Salary: Up to £55K + Car Allowance + Package
Location: Bristol + Agile / Flex Working
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an organisation undertaking significant transformation, moving the dial from a risk adverse business to a commercially driven organisation where Procurement & SRM are at the forefront of the organisations strategy to drive value and reduce costs for both internal and external customers alike.
Role:
You will join a newly created IT Procurement & SRM team, helping design, develop and stand-up a new commercial supplier management model that will drive commercial value across engagement with all 3rd party Technology vendors. The team support a 3rd party spend portfolio of c£250m spanning 3 distinct areas:
- Infrastructure - Cloud, Mainframe, Telecoms and IT Security
- Digital - AI, Machine Learning and FinTech
- Software & Services - both Colleague and Customer facing Software and Applications
This is an exciting opportunity for you to provide expert IT Supplier Relationship Management support to the CIO function; by operating in an internal consultancy capacity to ensure that business units across this diverse organisation are managing their suppliers in line with a 'best-practice' SRM methodology. In turn you will be tasked with managing a portfolio of high profile, Tier 1 IT & Technology suppliers, seeking opportunities to drive innovation and to extract value in terms of cost and service for key stakeholders up to and including CIO level.
Experience:
You will be demonstrate;
- Experience gained in a traditional Supplier Management, SRM or Vendor Manager capacity
- Demonstrable experience of driving value and commercial benefit from IT & technology Vendors (Microsoft, IBM, BT etc)
- Experience gained in the design, development and implementation of SRM tools, process and policy
Experience gained in complex, multi business unit, organisations - Excellent examples of engaging and influencing IT stakeholders, up to and including CIO level