Head of IT Vendor Management New

JD Sports Fashion; Bury; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading omnichannel retailer as the Head of IT Vendor Management, where you'll play a crucial role in connecting procurement with technology. This dynamic position involves managing high-value contracts, collaborating with architecture and engineering teams, and ensuring that the best suppliers are onboarded. As a part of a people-first organization, you will focus on delivering value, identifying risks, and driving strategic initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a continuously growing company that values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.

Benefits

Incremental Holiday Allowance

Staff Discount on qualifying purchases

Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme

Discounted Gym membership

Personal development opportunities

Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Qualifications

• Experience in IT/Technology vendor management is essential.
• Demonstrable experience in supplier negotiations and reviews.

Responsibilities

• Manage high-value contracts and relationships with IT vendors.
• Develop long-term strategies for technology partnerships.

Skills

Vendor Management

Contract Negotiation

Procurement

Risk Management

Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or IT

Job description

We are looking for a seasoned and versatile individual. The sourcing and contract management sits with our Central Procurement teams. You’ll report to our Director of Technology Operations (In our central IT team). This role will be responsible for managing high-value contracts and relationships with IT/Technology vendors for JD Group. We’re looking for someone who understands how to connect the dots between Procurement and Technology.

Job Title: Head of IT Vendor Management

Location: BL9 8RR

Working Rota: Monday - Friday

Working Hours: 40

What You'll Be Doing:

• Technology is always changing – and that means our suppliers list can too! We want to understand the external landscape and market to really provide our technology teams with the confidence that the suppliers we onboard are truly the best.
• Working alongside Architecture and Engineering teams to develop long-term category and relationship strategies for partners, aligning with our technology and JD group mission.
• Key relentless focus on delivering value for our customers, taking the lead on complex supplier reviews, and driving jointly developed value creation plans with our partners.
• Focus on protecting the business, identifying emerging risks including cyber, operational resilience and service performance, working with partners and service owners to address and minimize any potential business disruption.

What We're Looking For:

• What’s most important is your understanding of interactions between people, processes, technology, and how (and where) suppliers can support.
• Experience in an IT/Technology vendor management/procurement role is essential.
• Experience in reviewing contracts (they can be tricky to decipher!).
• Demonstrable experience in supplier negotiations and reviews.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognize the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-first, a digital leader and customer-focused organization which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

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