IT Supplier Manager, Supply Relationship Manager (SRM), Fully Remote

Our client, a leading financial services organisation, is seeking an experienced IT Supply Manager with a background in Building and Maintaining IT supply functions. This is a key role that involves overseeing and managing all aspects of our third-party IT suppliers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring efficient and effective management of suppliers against defined contractual commitments
• Consolidating and streamlining the supplier landscape into a centralised group model
• Creation, implementation and maintenance of a robust Supplier Management Framework to include a defined third-party supplier IT service catalogue, a contract management database and defined roles and responsibilities with assigned ownership against each supplier under a tiered model.
• Identification and analysis of all Legacy IT supplier commitments inherited through business acquisition.
• Management of the supplier life cycle from inception through to termination
• Capture and understand all outsourced IT services and underlining commercials and perform cost management activity
• General management, monitoring and review process etc

Skills & Experience:

• Relevant experience in a similar Supplier/Contract Management role, preferably in an IT function
• Third party supplier management frameworks
• Contract structure, key clauses and terms
• Budget and financial processes
• Working within a matrixed team
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capability
• Procurement experience - involvement in RFI/RFP process
• ITIL knowledge

A progressive benefits package includes competitive holiday allowance, company pension scheme and more.