Are you an experienced IT Procurement professional looking for an exciting new challenge? Would you like to join a fast paced financial services business and play a critical role in developing IT Procurement best practice? Can you demonstrate a track record of building strong relationships across internal stakeholders and external suppliers? Do you have previous experience of reviewing and negotiating complex contracts to meet a variety of business objectives?

This is an exciting & newly created opportunity that offers an exceptional opportunity for a candidate to ownership of IT Category spend and procurement across a global business. As the successful applicant a selection of you duties will be to optimise procurement opportunities and relationships, provide a network of supplier relationships and solutions for technology stakeholders to utilise, oversee contract onboarding and renewals and review Technology expenditure and track run costs, identify optimisations in conjunction with stakeholders. Review cloud spend models and track optimisation actions across environments, ensure project spend is tracked and reportable and manage and review software assets to ensure optimised allocation and entitlements

To be considered you will be able to demonstrate exceptional communication skills and the ability to build trusted partnerships with vendors, suppliers and internal purchasers. You will have an analytical approach to data management and reporting combined with demonstratable experience in overseeing IT Procurement at an Enterprise Level Practical experience of managing IT budgets and presenting optimisation initiatives, reviewing 3rd party/vendor contracts from a financial perspective and understanding of the disciplines required to manage, report and where necessary further investigate aspects of spending across IT environments and Services.

In return we offer a competitive basic salary, benefits package including bonus, career development and progression.