Senior Procurement Manager - IT Products & Services

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The Senior Procurement Manager shall provide category leadership and procurement best practice across IT Infrastructure (Datacentres, Networks, Cyber), Customer Communications Technology, Applications, Professional Services and Hardware (EUC and Infra) as well as support wider strategic transformational systems Projects. Spend remit is c.£50M p/a. Implement and maintain best practice for end-to-end management of all key supplier decisions, sourcing process, negotiation strategy, financial analysis, contracting, ongoing supplier management and business performance improvement. Collaborate with broader Geopost functions and subsidiaries to create value, leverage scale and optimise enterprise-wide benefits. Key Accountabilities: 1. Define, develop and deliver, short, medium to long term procurement category strategies across relevant category area(s) that are aligned to stakeholder and business needs. ● Develop multi-year sourcing pipelines that drive total value, including significant cost savings against agreed targets and strive for continuous improvement. ● Execute and lead all category sourcing activities, including RFI/RFP development, negotiation strategy, pricing models and implementation. ● Drive change through skilled stakeholder influencing and cross-departmental collaboration. ● Perform detailed supply market analysis to determine trends and innovation. ● Maintain regular and effective internal communication with all stakeholder departments. ● Building close relationships with operations and finance and contributing to budgets, advising any shortfall/ benefits for the coming year. ● Represent Procurement in Geopost European sourcing initiatives where required. 2. Contract management of strategic suppliers for organisational gain and aligning these suppliers to long term business goals. ● Manage strategic supplier service performance in conjunction with operations and the business in line with contract commitments, KPI's, SLA's seeking to improve where possible. ● Supplier segmentation strategies and optimising the supply base. ● Re-negotiating legacy agreements where there is business advantage. ● Presenting ideas to senior level stakeholders and gaining buy-in where required. ● Manage internal and external benchmarking on portfolio of categories. 3. Drive procurement compliance across relevant functions, business systems, policies and processes. ● Ensure category spend taxonomy for relevant areas are kept updated. ● Ensure contract databases are kept updated. ● Work closely with Legal department to ensure robust contractual agreements are put in place to minimise operational and commercial risk. ● Drive procurement policy compliance with stakeholders and relevant business functions. ● Create procurement market analysis tendering within relevant systems for decision making audit purposes. ● Factor sustainability credentials and innovation into supplier award decision making. ● Work closely with Quality, Risk and Operations to drive service quality enhancements. 4. Team Leadership of IT commercial assets function. ● Leadership of IT Commercial organisation ● Drive regular 1-2-1's with direct reports ● Drive enhanced performance across team ● Team motivation ● Manage staff appraisal process ● Streamline and automate invoice administration processing ● Educated to Degree Level in a Business or Economics related field (desirable) ● MCIPS or working towards MCIPS status (desirable) ● Relevant experience sourcing GNFR business products and services (cross-category), ideally within the Logistics sector ● Advanced commercial negotiation skills e.g. GAP Negotiation ● Proactive relationship building, networking and influencing skills ● Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with people at all levels ● Demonstrable track record in achieving significant savings and influencing people of all levels ● Demonstrable track record in communicating ideas to senior management ● Demonstrable track record in managing supplier relationships and improving performance ● Leadership qualities ● Organisation, Planning & Project Management ● Legal Contracting Awareness ● Excellent written and verbal communication skills ● Strong numeracy and interpretation of financial data including ability to perform total cost of ownership analysis. ● Good IT literacy including MS PowerPoint and Excel ● Strong team player ● Ability to work independently, self-starter ● Prepared to travel About our benefits: We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn't be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It's important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few... Holiday trading Enhanced maternity and paternity package Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme Free onsite car parking for all

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