Senior Category Manager - Technology

Location – Leeds / London / Dublin

Hybrid - 2 days per week (Dublin only)

Permanent

The Procurement function in Flutter is responsible for the governance of external third party spend of over £6bn per annum across the various business units. To ensure a cohesive and co-ordinated approach to supplier spend management across the business, Flutter has a Group Category Management team led by the Director - Global Supplier Partnerships and Category Management.

The Senior Category Manager in Technology is a strategic role within this team responsible for procurement, category planning, strategy and SRPM (Supplier Risk and Performance Management) across our global technology spend in partnership with our divisional procurement teams and business stakeholders. A key element of the role is leading on strategic business partnering and performance management with Global suppliers across all our Group brands to optimise their spend and delivery. The ability to influence at Director and LT level is critical to this role to achieve cross divisional co-ordination of projects and strategies.

Leadership on category planning / savings budgets, SRPM and project management across Flutters four Divisional Procurement teams is a vital aspect of this role. It requires strong influencing and organisational skills to gain cross divisional alignment on Technology category spend management, helping set and deliver long term vision and priorities for the category and inspiring Divisional Category Managers to follow.

What You'll Do

• Establish positive relationships with Senior level internal Technology stakeholders; building a strong understanding of strategic business direction, requirements and priorities and translate that across key Technology supplier partners and spend categories.
• Develop global category sourcing strategies and spend management plans to deliver against business objectives for Technology.
• Drive Flutters SRPM Minimum Standards programme across our global Technology supplier base to manage both Performance and Risk effectively.
• Drive value and synergy savings via managing negotiations on a global basis.
• Continually look for performance and process improvements both internally in procurement and with our suppliers.
• Lead business reviews with premier global IT suppliers and stakeholders to review vendor performance, risk management, future opportunities, and/or challenges and coordinate implementation of actions following these.
• Act as a "trusted advisor" to Senior Flutter IT leaders in terms of supplier performance and spend management.
• Evaluate supplier core proficiencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and bench-marking analysis from industry sources.
• Provide IT leadership with key category insights and trends using industry reports such as those developed by Gartner.
• Identify sourcing opportunities by using spend analysis and engaging with stakeholders to consolidate requirements over categories, suppliers and geographies.
• Lead the fundamentals of Flutters Global sourcing and supplier engagement activities including RFx, spend analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation.
• Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement strategies and maintaining procurement ethics and governance in accordance with Flutter's global policies.