Lead Buyer - IT Transformation

Cirrus Selection Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

On-site Stevenage

Bonus up to GBP2,500

Pension contributions up to 14%

Up to 15 days flexi leave

Job summary

Cirrus Selection Limited is recruiting for a Lead Buyer, IT Transformation. Based in Bolton with hybrid two days a week on-site in Stevenage, this role offers a clear path to shaping a major IT-led transformation program.

You’ll lead procurement end to end, running RFI/RFP processes and negotiating contracts, while building a new SRM approach and driving performance post-go-live. A strong candidate has global stakeholder experience and security clearance eligibility.

Qualifications

• Solid experience running complex, strategic procurement projects or programmes across sectors
• Comfortable building and negotiating SOWs and commercial contracts
• Experience developing or running a supplier relationship management (SRM) approach
• Confidence leading RFI/RFP processes end to end
• Strong stakeholder management skills, especially across international teams
• Eligible for UK security clearance, British citizen or dual UK national with British citizenship

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement end to end for the transformation programme
• Run strategic RFI and RFP activity to identify market players and partners
• Shape scope, build statements of work, and negotiate contracts
• Define and implement a supplier relationship management strategy
• Drive supplier performance once live
• Own the procurement governance and reporting to stakeholders

Skills

Strategic procurement

RFI/RFP management

Contract negotiation

SOW development

SRM approach

Stakeholder management

Security clearance eligibility

Job description

Lead Buyer, IT Transformation

Based in Bolton

Salary from GBP50,000 to GBP60,000

Here\'s a properly meaty procurement role. A major IT-led business transformation programme, international stakeholders, and enough scope to actually shape how it gets delivered.

If you\'re a procurement professional who\'s outgrown the transactional stuff and wants ownership of something strategic and high-profile, keep reading.

You\'ll lead procurement across the transformation programme end to end. Running strategic RFI and RFP activity to find the right market players and supply partners. Acting as senior procurement lead on the project, working directly with stakeholders to shape scope, build statements of work, and negotiate contracts that hold up under pressure. Building out

a supplier relationship management strategy from scratch, and driving supplier performance once it\'s live.

This isn\'t a role for someone who wants to be told what good looks like. You\'ll be defining it.

What you\'ll need:

• Solid experience running complex, strategic procurement projects or programmes, any sector background considered, IT or technology experience is a bonus, not a must
• Comfortable building and negotiating SOWs and commercial contracts
• Experience developing or running a supplier relationship management (SRM) approach
• Confidence leading RFI/RFP processes end to end
• Strong stakeholder management skills, especially across international teams
• Eligible for UK security clearance, British citizen or dual UK national with British citizenship

Hybrid working, two days a week on-site in Stevenage. Plus a strong benefits package, bonus up to GBP2,500, overtime, pension contributions up to 14%, up to 15 days flexi leave.