IT PROCUREMENT MANAGER

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IT Procurement Manager

Salary: £60,000-£70,000

Location: London, Canary Wharf

Type: Permanent

Launched in 2001, our client makes a real difference to people's lives every day. Last year they heard from over 1.4 million individuals faced with a financial problem, and they continue to successfully resolve complaints between customers and financial businesses.

The Role:

As the demand for our services increases, so do the requirements on our procurement team to make sure that we're providing an efficient and effective procurement service. Our role in managing and maintaining the supply of goods and services to the company is vital to our smooth operation. As a Procurement Manager you'll deliver specialist procurement advice, support and solutions to stakeholders across the company.

As well as delivering a wide range of potentially large and complex procurement projects, you'll adopt a business partnering approach collaborating with senior stakeholders, executive members and heads of departments to deliver best practice procurement that meets the needs of the business. You'll have a good understanding of contract and supplier relationship management including the Corporate Social Responsibility agenda. And you'll focus on making sure that we're following EU procurement legislation and are managing any risks related to our procurement activities. Main Duties:Leading procurement competitions that are compliant with current EU procurement legislationSupporting the provision of goods and services by taking ownership of our supplier contract documents and managing the evaluation process through to contract awardOffering specialist technical advice and support on commercial and procurement issues to a range of stakeholdersAs a Procurement Business Partner taking a lead on all procurement and commercial activity for a range of business areas and attending senior leadership meetingsManaging any risks that we're facing in our procurement activitiesIdentifying and delivering savings resulting from improved commercial activityNegotiating with suppliers to make sure we're getting the best service and value for money from themHelping to develop procurement policy, procedures and processes and communicating these across the organisationDriving up supplier performance by designing, implementing and embedding supplier relationship and contract management processesManaging stakeholder relationships at all levels, including some of our senior leadersSupporting the head of procurement on procurement related projects, initiatives and reportingManaging and mentoring 1 x Procurement Officer and 1 x Apprentice Procurement Officer Key Requirements:Have a thorough understanding of the IT Category and relevant experience of delivering a wide range of ICT solutionsBeing a full member of CIPS (chartered institute of procurement and supply) would be highly desirableHaving knowledge of public procurement directives and experience of public sector procurementHaving the ability to develop and implement procurement strategies that will deliver cost savingsHaving a good understanding of the ICT category including experience of buying physical hardware, operating systems, applications, storage and servers would be highly desirableCarrying out EU compliant procurement competitions - you'll need to be able to plan several months ahead to deliver these effectivelyWorking with multiple stakeholders and communicating effectively at all levels within an organisationHaving strong negotiating and influencing skills and using these to get the most out of a range of complicated supplier relationshipsAbility to prioritise and juggle several pieces of work at once - you'll be working on a range of projects at any given timeExcellent MS Office skills - particularly Excel and Word