Procurement Manager - London, United Kingdom - Portfolio Procurement

Portfolio Procurement

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 day ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is an exciting, BROWNFIELD IT Procurement Manager (to become Head of) position in a global, fast growing Financial Services and Technology company.

For this role they are looking for a TOUGH, HARD-NOSED, PROFESSIONALY AGGRESSIVE, DEALMAKING procurementprofessional who loves the rush of negotiation, making savings, working in a fast paced environment and has the commercial mindset with ideas to create financial improvements on spend.

This will be a sole procurement role for the first 12 to 18 months beforeyou start thinking about any further team structure beneath you.

Almost all the spend you will be managing here will be Technology related and across all values from the lower level to more key vendors, with a view to going through the supplier base, organising it and re-tendering, re-negotiating and reviewing terms acrosseach supplier.

They are open to level, £70,000 to £100,000 salarybut regardless of level you come in at, you will be negotiating smaller spend contracts and tactical projects, as well as the bigger ticket strategic projects.

Roles and responsibilities:

Reporting into the CFO and wider board to consistently commercially maintain spend
Conduct end to end procurement focusing purely on the company's IT
Love to make deals and achieve savings
Negotiate new and existing contracts for best value for the business
Source new suppliers for best value, with upmost efficiency
Work within a close team, but take on projects autonomously, full responsibility of supplier selection
Manage stakeholders at all levels business leads to executive level
Challenge stakeholders across the business with your own technical and previous experience

Experience required:

Must have extensive procurement experience in IT
Finance, FinTech, Technology type companies would be of additional interest
Tough and robust negotiator who can hold their own
Endtoend procurement experience, strong SRM/VM experience essential
Very confident in negotiating any level of stakeholder
Able to build effective and lasting relationships internally and externally
Willing to fully commit to the role and company throughout this exciting time of change