IT Procurement Specialist

Join a dynamic and forward-thinking team as an Interim IT Procurement Specialist. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a high-impact project within a leading organisation.

As an Interim IT Procurement Specialist, you will be responsible for managing the procurement of IT services and products. This hybrid role requires you to be on-site at the office on the Lincolnshire / Cambridge border for 1-2 days a week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remainder of the week.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Providing professional expert procurement advice, commercial and contract negotiation expertise, together with excellent customer service to internal and external customers.
• Implementing different IT sourcing strategies in the following areas: IT Security - SOC and SIEM Services, IT Software - mainly proprietary software, IT Voice - such as application management services.
• Managing various IT support models.
• Continuously reviewing current market trends and making recommendations to improve service, leverage spend, deliver savings, or implement efficiencies.
• Regularly communicating and updating key requisitioners on the client's corporate procurement policies.
• Implementing robust commercial and contractual terms in the best interests of the client.
• Delivering agreed category savings targets.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Proven experience in IT procurement.
• Strong negotiation and contract management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to identify and implement cost-saving opportunities.
• Flexibility to work on-site in an office on the Cambridgeshire / Lincolnshire border for 1-2 days a week.
• Strong drafting skills, articulate and good grammar skills.
• Comprehensive understanding and experience of best practice sourcing.
• Ability to research category and supplier markets, identifying the best deals, innovation, and creativity to reduce cost and improve service.
• Positive approach to stakeholder management, building strong and professional relationships with customers.
• Proactive approach to managing suppliers and supplier relationship management.
• Ability to work under pressure, be self-sufficient while remaining focused.
• Demonstrable experience of meeting savings targets.
• Motivation, passion for the role, and desire to succeed.

Skills required:

• Sourcing, negotiation, and contract management.
• Time management - the ability to manage and prioritise project activities and sourcing workloads.
• Strong communicator - written emails, presentations, and collaboration forums.
• Track record of ability to deliver against targets.
• Writing RFPs from scratch with limited briefs and extracting information from stakeholders.
• Technical requirements capturing.
• Data manipulation - advanced MS Excel skills.

In return, you will receive:

• A competitive daily rate of up to c£550.
• A flexible hybrid working arrangement.
• The opportunity to work on a high-impact project within a leading organisation.
• Potential for contract extension beyond the initial 6 months.
• IR35 status is to be determined via Qdos test.

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