Senior IT Procurement Manager

ICAEW

Milton Keynes

Hybrid

GBP 70,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Gym discounts

Pension plan

Health and dental plans

Season ticket loans

Health and dental plans

Job summary

A professional membership body seeks an experienced Senior IT Procurement Manager in Milton Keynes. You will leverage strategic expertise to enhance procurement across IT categories, focusing on supplier management and continuous improvement. Ideal candidates should have significant experience in IT procurement and strong negotiation skills, alongside an understanding of software licensing. The role offers a hybrid work arrangement with various employee benefits.

Qualifications

Proficient in procurement processes and contracting models.
Strong background in supplier negotiations and management.
Understands software licensing and GDPR compliance.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic IT category expertise.
Manage IT tenders from strategic planning to contract completion.
Identify and manage key suppliers while mitigating risks.
Standardise procurements and monitor supplier performance.
Support contract owners to ensure SLAs and KPIs are met.
Know suppliers, services, and product development strategy.

Skills

Advanced IT and Digital Procurement S2P experience

Commercial IT and Digital contract negotiation

Complex contract management

Supplier management experience

Organisational and analytical skills

Strong communication abilities

Knowledge of Microsoft Office

Cost optimisation experience

Software licensing understanding

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

ICAEW Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

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Hybrid working meaning two days in the office and three from home

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We are excited to invite applications for the role of Senior IT Procurement Manager at the ICAEW. In this key position, you will provide strategic procurement expertise to the organisation building stakeholder and supplier relationships working closely with IT to ensure governance, drive commercial value and deliver the IT procurement strategy. This role offers a rare opportunity to support and develop the new Centralised Procurement Function and make a positive impact within ICAEW.

Overall Purpose of this role of Senior IT Procurement Manager.

In this key position, you will provide strategic procurement expertise to the organisation building stakeholder and supplier relationships working closely with IT to ensure governance, drive commercial value and deliver the IT procurement strategy.

The Senior IT procurement Manager will be responsible for sourcing and supplier management activities for commercial contracts relating to IT. We are looking for someone who is commercially astute with advanced negotiation skills and experienced in contracting models and agreements. This role will ensure that the ICAEW suppliers deliver quality and value aligning to our own values and commitments to our members. The Senior IT procurement Manager will have the opportunity to impact best practice procurement, provide expertise and contribute to the success of ICAEW.

Working closely with stakeholders, suppliers, and governance teams, this position will support all areas of the business where there is an IT element to their procurement requirement. The role will standardise procurements across the business, drive continuous improvements, ensure our strategic suppliers are monitored and managed in accordance with the contract and ICAEW Strategy.

Senior IT Procurement Manager Responsibilities include:

Provide strategic IT category expertise
Review and identify opportunities in the IT spend to develop and maintain the category plan
Manage IT tenders from strategic planning to contract completion
Identify and manage key suppliers mitigating risks, understand market trends and monitor supplier performance
Support contract owners to ensure contracted SLAs and KPIs are met
Know the suppliers, the services they provide and their product development strategy
Specific duties will vary from time to time in line with the business needs

Senior IT Procurement Manager Candidate Profile

Advanced IT and Digital Procurement S2P experience
Experienced with commercial IT and Digital contract negotiation
Proficient in complex contracts with a good understanding of the S2P lifecycle
Strong technical background in supplier management experience
Excellent organisational, analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Strong communication abilities to engage stakeholders and suppliers at all levels
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office
Demonstrated success in cost optimisation, value realisation, and spend analysis across IT categories
Understanding of software licensing models, including SaaS, perpetual, subscription, and cloud-based agreements
Familiar with information security, GDPR, and regulatory compliance as it applies to third party IT services

For the full role profile please click the document attached.

Why work at ICAEW as Senior IT Procurement Manager?

We want you to enjoy your work and flourish in your role.

Our working environment is friendly and supportive, and we encourage everyone to understand personal differences and treat each other with respect.

We are a diverse organisation, employing skilled and motivated people from all backgrounds and helping them to reach their full potential, through training and development.

Sustainability is important to us, and we work hard to reduce our carbon footprint, whether that's in our buildings through lighting and heating, or encouraging staff to recycle and reduce paper consumption.

Our employee benefits include:

A substantial suite of training and development
Flexible working arrangements
A generous benefits package which includes gym discounts, pension plan, season ticket travel loans and health and dental plans

We are a disability confident employer.

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