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IT Category Manager - Remote
JR United Kingdom
Altrincham
Remote
GBP 45,000 - 75,000
Full time
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Job summary
Join a forward-thinking financial services firm as an IT Category Manager, where you'll play a pivotal role in the Procurement Team. This remote position offers the chance to engage with key stakeholders across the UK, driving procurement strategies and managing contracts. You'll be instrumental in identifying savings opportunities and supporting complex projects, ensuring supplier performance and compliance with group standards. If you're ready to take charge of projects and make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this role is perfect for you.
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of IT and Procurement sourcing experience required.
- Strong commercial and analytical experience is essential.
Responsibilities
- Support IT and business procurement needs as part of the Group Procurement Team.
- Build relationships with stakeholders to understand business needs.
Skills
Education
Job description
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Client: The Portfolio Group
Location: Altrincham, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Views: 5
Posted: 24.04.2025
Expiry Date: 08.06.2025
Portfolio Procurement has been engaged by our leading financial services client to recruit for an IT Category Manager.
The role:
As IT Procurement Manager you will be a key part of the Procurement Team. This position is wide-ranging and will involve partnering with key stakeholders of all levels of seniority across the company. As part of an ambitious and acquisitive organisation, you will be exposed to a range of responsibilities with genuine depth and variety.
Key accountabilities:
- As a key member of the Group Procurement Team, you will work to support IT and the business's procurement needs.
- You will need to build strong relationships with key stakeholders across the UK and beyond, to understand the business’ needs, ensuring issues are understood and accounted for in strategy development and during project delivery.
- You will support in building the IT Procurement plan including proactive identification of savings/value opportunities, in support of wider organisation objectives and priorities.
- Support IT Business Partner on larger, complex projects providing project management and analytics support.
- Contract negotiations and drafting.
- Support with contract renewal monitoring, strategy preparation and negotiation of group standards, tools and working practices to improve supplier performance management.
- Supports the business to design and implement appropriate supplier management plans and supports reviews for critical/strategic suppliers.
Skills and experience required:
- Previous IT and Procurement sourcing experience (ideally 3-5 years)
- CIPS or part qualified with a desire to complete to MCIPS level would be ideal
- Strong commercial and analytical experience
- Ability to take control of a project and see it through to completion
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