Procurement Director - IT (FTSE 100)

IT Procurement Director | £100,000 to £120,000 | up to 45% bonus | Car allowance | Healthcare | Pension | Life Assurance | City of London or Sussex - 2 days a week | FTSE 100 Financial Services & Insurance Business

A rare and unique opportunity, for a heavy hitting IT Procurement Director to join a global FTSE 100 insurance business to working with the CPO and C-suite stakeholder base to improve, build and retain strong relationships.

You’ll be exposed to a high value and complex projects, critical to the business and working at strategic level. They are in need for a technically versed, confident and influential procurement expert who has worked at senior levels, ideally for a global business with high spends.

Role and responsibilities:

• Ensure strong relationships with the IT leadership team are built and upheld
• Managing the high value, most complex and business critical, strategic IT projects
• Develop group wide category plans and strategies to ensure alignment for the group, leveraging suppliers to support local offices
• Continuous engagement with the IT Directors up to CIO to ensure procurement buy-in and that procurement is mandated
• Support the development of category strategies to a clear and prioritised pipeline of sourcing projects
• Engage, manage and influence senior stakeholders from Director to Board level to ensure buy-in, utilising strong market knowledge
• Build relationships with key stakeholders to ensure a rounded knowledge of a suppliers performance
• Monitor supplier risk and performance through reporting tools and business feedback

Experience and requirements:

• Deep technical category experience within Technology, covering a wide range of sub-categories (Software, Hardware, Applications, Digital, Infrastructure, Cloud, IT Professional Services Telecoms and Networks)
• Experience in re-igniting the procurement and stakeholder relationship at senior levels
• Previous experience working on complex projects, dealing with Tier 1 suppliers of significant values
• Confident in engaging and influencing senior level stakeholders, and across various regions
• A highly strategic mindset when approaching procurement, suppliers and business needs
• Will have a track record of IT category management, effecting change and continuous improvement through implementation of innovative category strategies
• Excellent communications skills when dealing with contacts in different cultures and countries
• Able to adapt in a very fast paced, continuously changing environment