Senior Procurement Specialist - IT Procurement, IT sourcing, negotiating complex contracts
The Senior Procurement Specialist will be predominantly working on the firm's procurement activities including support of the Procurement Manager in their ongoing updating and implementation of the current processes and commercial engagements.
With a specific focus on IT procurement and supplier management the role holder will be responsible for ensuring that any engagement or interaction with any new parties follows the firm's requirements and diligence processes.
The role holder will be expected to help review both contracts and commercial agreements and support the Procurement Manager in an exercise of reviewing, benchmarking, negotiating and where necessary co-terming agreements. This will include storing and managing related documents, relationship history along with tracking on-going discussions and regular supplier check-ins. The Senior Procurement Specialist will also contribute to any new or in-flight RFI and RFP processes.
Duties, Responsibilities & Person Specification
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Understand and ensure that the procurement processes are followed for the IT department and ensure all governance and diligence is applied when reviewing or on-boarding suppliers.
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Support the business areas, IT teams and Project teams in supplier engagement and on-boarding process.
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Monitor renewal dates, allowing the firm to adequately plan renegotiations, renewals and support the process when appropriate for RFP's
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Work with supplier relationship owners' to provide support and guidance in on-going supplier management.
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Liaise with the Risk, Compliance, Info Sec and Finance teams to ensure new suppliers are thoroughly checked before on-boarding takes place.
Education, Skills & Experience
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Experience of working in an IT Procurement or similar centralised procurement team responsible for IT sourcing.
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Experience in negotiating complex contracts.
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Experience in working in a procurement function within a multinational organisation.
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A good knowledge of standard business accounting practices and an excellent understanding of Microsoft Excel.
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A methodical, thorough attention to detail with a nous for identifying mistakes in supplier pricing proposals.
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Experience of working with various types of software licensing models including public cloud services.
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Decisive and confident in one’s own ability and recommendations
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Strong written, oral and presentation communication skills.
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Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to present ideas and proposals in user-friendly language
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A passion for ensuring that not only cost but value is being maximised as part of an agreement.
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Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
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Able to effectively prioritise tasks in a high-pressure environment.
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Experience working in a geographically dispersed team-oriented, collaborative environment