IT Procurement Specialist

+ 6 month initial contract

+ Fully remote working

+ £390 to £305 per day

Job Description:
The UK Procurement team is currently recruiting an IT Procurement Specialist for its IT & Telco Procurement team. The role consists of leading on self-identified and allocated projects, delivering against agreed timescales and outcomes for the specified areas.
Interaction with Business Leaders and vendors is required at senior level and therefore you must be confident and comfortable interacting at all levels.

Key Attributes:
The successful candidate is likely to have experience working across multiple sectors and must be able to demonstrate capability in the following attributes though these are not all necessarily required for this specific role.
· Be a team player
· Have good stakeholder management skills
· Sourcing experience - capable of running an RFx process, with good IT knowledge including hardware, software and services, and understand current market trends
· Preparation of, or assisting in the preparation, of category plans and driving savings, whilst aligning with client's strategies
· Vendor management, including relationship management, performance management, benchmarking
· Contract management including negotiating and implementing new contracts, licence agreements, sub-contracts with back-to-back client terms, amendments, addendums and novations
· Excellent Interpersonal skills both verbal and written when dealing with internal and external clients
· Experience in supporting bid opportunities relating to Procurement scope.

Key Responsibilities:
· Manage a full sourcing process from the definition of requirements, to contract signature and to communicate progress
· Negotiate commercial terms and terms and conditions for different types of agreements
· Post contract award contract management
· Provide procurement support to bid teams
· Participate in the category definition and implementation of the category roadmap
· Establish commercial governance meetings with internal stakeholders and vendors, covering programme/project/commercial performance, business changes and priorities, submit propositions and innovation proposals, demand management.
· Attending meetings as required with internal stakeholders, vendors, procurement colleagues, and clients when necessary
· Liaise with Group Category Buyers to understand latest global contracts and trends, define and execute sourcing strategies with global vendors impacting local projects and in the creation of innovative solutions to internal stakeholders and clients.
· Responsible for tracking savings and cost avoidance, dealing with financial planning and forecasting
· Become proficient with procurement tools such as SAP eSourcing.

Personal Profile:
· Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
· Strong communication skills both written and oral
· Excellent report writing skills
· Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision
· Well organised with common sense and pragmatism
· Ability to work to deadlines in a pressurised environment
· Good commercial awareness
· Excellent stakeholder and supplier management skills
· High level of numeracy and literacy
· Team leadership/management experience
· A previous knowledge or background in outsourcing or outsourcing organisations is desirable
· The ability to obtain security clearance is preferable.

Technical Skills:
· CIPS qualified/part qualified preferred
· Vendor management
· Vendor contract management
· Excellent working knowledge of MS Office
· Previous exposure to eSourcing systems.