Talent Drive | B Corp™
Global Procurement Manager - IT & Technology (Remote)
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Global Category Manager - Technology - £70,000 to £75,000 | Company car | 10% bonus, company + full corporate benefits | REMOTE homebased contract with ad-hoc visits to London
A global FTSE 100 Professional Services business
This is an incredible opportunity for someone to join a market leading, truly global business who are looking for a highly Ambitious, Agile, Resilient and Strategically minded IT/Technology procurement expert.
They are looking an experienced Category Manager - Technology, with experience working for a global, multi-site and complex business experience, where main areas of focus will be managing large value and complex projects, developing robust strategies and engaging with the companies C-Suite.
The group function is going through a hugely exiting transformation within the tech landscape, where they have expanded the function and investing heavily into modernisation and digitalisation.
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Role and responsibilities:
- Report into the Head of Global Procurement - Technology, within a good sized team of fellow IT procurement colleagues at various levels, within a large group global function
- Develop, design and continuously improve category strategies
- End to end sourcing, within designated spend areas using a strategic approach
- Working with the senior business leads, to develop category strategies and category planning
- Continuous advice to your stakeholders on market trends, new innovations and knowledge of the supplier market
- Be able to manage and understand both regulated and un-regulated complex projects
- Ensure in parallel to strategic procurement, ensuring best commercial value for the business
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Experience required:
- Extensive experience IT, Software and Technology procurement
- Strong and proven, strategic category management in a large complex business
- Global and UK wide projects, understanding different complexities in various regions
- Show that you have delivered savings, in a large and similar sized business
- Ability to engage, negotiate and influence senior stakeholders up to Board Level
- Strong stakeholder management, using different approaches to type, level and maturity of relationships
- Worked in a large and cross-functional procurement team
- MCIPS qualification nice to have, but not essential
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