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Interim Global IT Procurement Manager

Employer
1st Executive
Location
England, London
Salary
£450 - £500 per day
Closing date
21 Mar 2019

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Job Details

Recruiting on behalf of a FTSE100 Pharmaceutical organisation seeking an experienced IT Procurement Manager with a strong track record in sourcing complex, global IT solutions. You MUST have prior experience across procuring a broad range of IT services and delivering significant savings in challenging, multi-layered environments. An excellent opportunity to join a business undergoing significant change within their procurement function.

Job Purpose:

The Global Category Manager (GCM) plans and leads global category initiatives for a clearly defined sub-category or group of sub-categories. The GCM develops the sub-category strategy as part of the wider Category Strategy, leads proactive sourcing projects, specification definition and demand management, as well as managing sub-category specific supplier performance and innovation activities.

Required Experience:

  • 5-10 years minimum experience within procurement, ideally exclusively across the IT category
  • Extensive experience across end-to-end procurement category management, from running RFP processes through to supplier contracts negotiation and implementing KPI's / SLA's for managing supplier performance post-contract award
  • Experience in process improvements and compliance
  • Responsible for the delivery of Procurement Balanced Scorecard Measures
  • Degree within either business administration, finance, law, scientific or technical field
  • CIPS or similar professional qualification (Preferred)

Key Accountabilities:

  • Providing IT sub-category input business functions and markets to inform the top-down target setting process
  • The delivery of IT sub-category targets following engagement in the target setting process
  • The delivery of Procurement Balanced Scorecard Measures for the relevant categories
  • Collecting of supplier, market, category and internal business data and information for categories
  • Provide IT category input and validation to the Global Category Strategy (where appropriate) including facilitating involvement of relevant Stakeholders
  • Communicating distribution of any sub-category specific strategies to the relevant stakeholders
  • Development and execution of projects based on the sub-category strategy and business planning activities to feed into the Annual Procurement Category Plan
  • Ensure the sub-category projects agreed to within the Global Category Strategy are executed in a timely basis in line with the targeted goals
  • Leading pro-active sourcing
  • Establish overall category segmentation and identification of key supplier relationships
  • Implementation of consistent KPI's
  • Managing strategic supplier relationships as agreed in the supplier segmentation
  • Collecting supplier information and feedback from functions, markets, other category teams and relevant procurement team members
  • Proactively managing innovation with strategic suppliers within the sub-category
  • The creation, application and completion and review of major contracts for sub-categories
  • Ensure all category associates involved in operational buying activities have access to the Category process and procedure documentation
  • Ensure all negotiated contracts are clearly communicated for the area to ensure they are consistently applied
  • Monitor compliance and adherence to procurement policies and procedures
  • Ensure any supplier performance risks and issues are resolved on a timely basis to end user satisfaction


Key Performance indicators / Measures of success:

  • Value Delivery (Financial)
  • Customer Delivery (Service Provision)
  • Supplier Performance (Supplier Management)
  • Effectiveness & Efficiency (Process Improvement & Compliance)

Company

1st Executive

1st Executive are the forefront of 'Search' within the Procurement sector operating UK & Europe wide. Our focus in in interim management and permanent recruitment ranging from Senior Buyers through CPO's

At 1st Executive we understand that businesses are driven by people. We work in partnership with our clients to ensure that they improve the performance of their organisation through the right people. Our clients are organisations who are widely regarded as the most attractive to work for in their sector, consisting of FTSE 100 / Global 500 organisations as well as dynamic , growing consultancies. They are diverse in their sectors, covering FMCG, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Technology to name a few.

Our approach is professional, knowledgeable and above all, successful. This is why we are the partnership of choice for many of the UK's most prestigious organisations when it comes to finding the right person for the job.

Company info
Website
Telephone
+44 (0) 84321 630 30
Location
Connaught House
Portsmouth Road
Ripley
Surrey
GU23 7JY
United Kingdom

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