Job Description

Job title: IT Sourcing Manager (Procurement)

Locations: Northampton, Manchester or Glasgow

Contract length: 6 months initially, with potential for permanent

Day rate: PAYE

Randstad Sourceright, a leading provider of RPO & MSP Recruitment Services is currently recruiting for a Sourcing Manager to join a leading bank, with offices based in Manchester, Northampton, Knutsford and Glasgow. Initially the contract will be for 6 months but likely to extend or become permanent.

The role will offer a hybrid working model and be based out of either the Manchester, Northampton, Glasgow or Knutsford office 2 days per week.

The Role:

The Sourcing Manager is responsible for owning a portfolio of sourcing deals (new contracts, renewals, extensions, orders) of varying value levels, risk levels depending on the level of the role.

You will be providing sourcing and category execution support for specific categories of spend.

Key Responsibilities:

* Engaging with business stakeholders to understand the demand, requirements and support the best commercial outcome

* Agreeing the sourcing approach with the category lead (e.g. RFX process, single source renewal/negotiation) aligned to the category strategy

* Execution of the process, following processes and controls through to contract signature and hand over to the supplier manager

* Additional work on category planning (e.g. renewals pipeline development, spend analysis) may be required to support the category manager

Key skills & Qualifications:

* Experience of end to end Sourcing process ideally Financial Services or in a similarly regulated environment for categories in scope of the role

* Structured approach to planning and execution ensuring key stakeholders and procurement colleagues are appraised of progress, plans and blockers

* Ability to work at pace with but with control at the front of mind

* Comfortable operating in complex matrixed environments

* Self-starter, proactive and quick to learn process, controls and tools

* Good interpersonal skills to engage and influence stakeholders

* Good collaborative style with other Procurement and Bank teams

* You will ideally have experience in one of the following categories:

* Networks – connectivity, hardware, software, maintenance.

* Data centre/co-lo

* Developer tools/software

* Corporate Banking Technology, Digital, Online and Mobile Customer Experience, Enterprise Software

* VP’s Workplace & Collaboration and Fraud. AVP’s Workplace & Collaboration and Functions Technology

* Categories: Legal, HR

* Management consulting/Resource Augmentation/IT Services:

* Marketing Bau

* Capital projects