Senior IT Procurement Manager
Experian
- Nottingham
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Partner with the UK&I business to drive forward several new technology related initiatives, including digital transformation initiatives, partnering with senior stakeholders across a range of disciplines including the Programme Manager/Director, Finance and CIO/CTO community.
- Collaborate effectively with the global, regional, and business unit teams. Act as a SME and role model with the goal of helping the business to deliver their collective goals.
- Develop and implement strategic sourcing plans for a portfolio of IT-related spend categories to drive cost effectiveness and operational excellence.
- Manage relationships with internal stakeholders, including IT managers, business unit leaders, and finance business partners.
- Support the Technology teams in the production of business cases; using expertise to ensure commercial / contractual assessments are thorough and robust.
- Support and drive technology rationalisation and consolidation enabling tangible and quantifiable cost optimisation.
- Ensure compliance, governance and regulatory standards are followed thoroughly.
- Substantial and demonstrable experience within a global organisation.
- Negotiate robust, favorable and value-added supplier contracts
- Identify, develop and implement cost-optimization initiatives.
- Track and analyze IT spend data.
- Stay current on IT industry trends and market conditions. Research and apply market intelligence and insights to delivery cost-effectiveness.
- Highly motivated, self-starter, resilient who manages projects end-to-end and has a demonstrated track record of getting results, organising, and prioritising competing initiatives.
- High degree of integrity and ability to continue to operate under time-pressure and situations of ambiguity.
- Unyielding attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrable experience in IT procurement and sourcing, ideally within Financial Services or Technology sector.
- Proven ability to develop and implement large scale strategic sourcing plans.
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills.
- Strong emotional intelligence and confidence.
- Good cultural awareness and ideally, experience with global working
- Solid experience with ERP systems and procurement-related software