Role: Senior IT Procurement Manager

Salary: Up to £80K + Excellent Benefits

Location: Basingstoke (2/3 days p/w on site)

Are you an IT Procurement Manager - with experience of delivering complex IT sourcing projects across Digital, Data, Cloud and Software? This is an exciting opportunity with a PE backed client who are investing extensively in Technology solutions to drive customer experience and future revenue generation opportunities.

Role:
Key to your success in this role will be the ability to develop key stakeholder relationships with the IT leadership community, including the CIO and CDO, positioning Procurement as a "value-add" business partner. Ultimately, you will be tasked with driving commercial value across a broad range of business critical IT & Technology Procurement projects - supporting the organisation's digital investment journey, with lots of exciting new product development and proof of concept projects, which embrace AI.

You will need to:

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

Experience:

• IT Procurement & Category Management experience - ideally bring examples of supporting new product development initiatives
• Solid understanding of procurement processes and principles, commercial and legal constructs, and financial models.
• Skills to influence and drive effective change in an agile environment
• Self-motivation, tenacity, and a focus on delivery
• Gravitas, the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
• Ideally Degree and MCIPS qualified.

***All applicants must demonstrate current and valid UK Right To Work***