It Procurement Manager 85K

Role: IT Procurement Manager £80-85k

Salary: Up to £85K + Excellent Benefits

Location: Hybrid working and 2 days per week in Manchester - UK based role

Are you an IT Procurement Manager - with experience of delivering complex IT sourcing projects across a breadth of categories?

This role offers the opportunity to play a key part in a major organisation's IT Transformation journey, within Customer experience.

Role:
Key to your success in this role will be the ability to develop key stakeholder relationships with the IT 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 IT & Technology Procurement projects - supporting the organisation's digital journey.

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
• Familiar with operating in a regulatory environment

Experience:

• Excellent IT Procurement experience, with some Software experience (SaaS, PIaaS, Cloud, IT Services)
• Strong Stakeholder Management ability to a senior level.
• Ideally, prior experience within a Financial Services industry environment.
• Data-driven mindset.

This is an urgent requirement - if interested, please apply asap and any questions, email claire.shipman@1st-executive.com