Role: Software Procurement Category Manager

Salary: Up to £86K + Excellent Benefits

Location: London/Birmingham/Sheffield/Southampton (1 day in office pw max)

Are you a Senior IT Procurement Manager with experience of delivering complex sourcing projects across the breadth of the Technology category? This is a newly created role and a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the continued growth of a newly transformed Procurement function!

Role:

Key to your success in this role will be the ability to develop key stakeholder relationships with the CIO community, positioning Procurement as a "value-add" business partner. Ultimately, you will be tasked with driving commercial value across a broad range of business critical Indirect Procurement projects - supporting the organisations journey towards digitisation.

You will need to:

• Be commercially astute, financially literate and legally competent to negotiate contracts
• Have strong influencing skills and leadership, with the gravitas to negotiate credibly with suppliers and engage with the CIO and the executive management team
• Be results driven with a track record of achievement while adaptable in the face of adversity

Experience:

• You will demonstrate a breadth of Technology category experience, particularly in the Software space.
• You will demonstrate Procurement experience gained in a complex 'blue-chip' environment; Financial Services experience would be ideal
• You will be comfortable operating in an autonomous Procurement environment, and be willing to lead and manage end to end sourcing projects
• MBA or Degree qualified ideally.