IT Category Manager

Job title: IT Category ManagerLocation: Warwick/HybridDuration: 6 months initiallyAdecco is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.The role:As Category Manager for IT, you will set the strategy and deliver strategic sourcing for assigned spend categories across the IT portfolio. Sourcing activities will include analysis, supply market research, identification and qualification of potential vendors, preparation of tender documentation, management of competitive sourcing processes, analysis of bidder responses and contract negotiation. Responsibilities:· Develop category and sourcing strategies for higher value, higher complexity categories, applying analysis of relevant category data, and internal & external insight · Manage assigned categories and the delivery of sourcing projects with associated savings and other benefits · Lead higher value / higher complexity sourcing projects within scope of the assigned categories. This may include identification of potential suppliers, market research, production of tender documentation, management of RFx timelines, supplier evaluation and negotiation · Continually track the supply market, keeping abreast of developments, trends, risks and opportunities, lead the continual engagement with existing and potential suppliers and ahead of external market factors · Develop both expertise and corporate intelligence and intellectual property on the assigned (sub)categories, as relevant · Support organisation-wide procedures for governance, risk and compliance management that manage, mitigate and minimise risks to ensure that work carried out within the Sourcing & Contract Management Hub is aligned to category strategy · Acquire, maintain and develop expertise, knowledge and information to support continuous improvement in allocated categories from relevant internal and external sources · Engage with the business and/or service functions to plan and support ongoing commercial activity (including annual value planning)Requirements:· Experience and an excellent track record as a strategic sourcing or procurement professional including a track record of continuous improvement and delivery of results in a variety of commercial settings · Good understanding and experience of key practices in procurement / strategic sourcing (e.g. category spend analysis, sourcing processes and supplier management) · Demonstrates good level of knowledge, specifically in reference to the categories of spend under management and what compliance and regulatory requirements need to be fulfilled. · Demonstrates relevant category expertise and / or evidence transferrable skills across category areas · Experience in personally conducting procurement activities, including requirement definition, sourcing planning, supplier management and competitive bidding, in line with the agreed strategy for the relevant categories of spend.Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.