ICT Suppliers Analyst (Wakefield)

Role: ICT Supplier and Contracts Analyst

Location: Hybrid – Wakefield 2 days per week plus WFH

Salary: £38,750 + a comprehensive range of Employee Benefits, (including 13.5% Pension, wide range of travel and shopping discounts)

Key Skills: ICT Supplier Analyst experience, supplier contract negotiation skills, Supplier performance review experience, managing supplier KPI\’s, CIPS qualified or equivalent

Why Apply: These roles join a fast-growing commercial team that is part of a large ICT function that is delivering essential services in a high-profile organisation. If you are used to managing IT suppliers and driving cost savings and are naturally a problem solver and great communicator with lots of initiative, then this would be a great role to apply to!

Our Client: This is a great time to join our client, they are a large Public Sector body providing critical services at a local level and they have exciting technology plans in the pipeline providing opportunity for all IT team members to get access to learning.

The Role:

• To manage ICT suppliers to provide a centralised and consistent database of suppliers and contracts. Regularly liaising with and meeting supplier contacts and relevant stakeholders.
• Update, manage and review the supplier and contract databases.
• Analyse the supplier and contract databases to provide Senior Leadership Team with data to drive effective decision making.
• Monitoring Supplier spend against budget to obtain best value.
• Undertake ICT asset management functions to support the effective use of assets throughout the organisation.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

Essential:

• 2+ years\’ experience gained in a similar role, managing ICT suppliers and contracts.
• Be able to demonstrate experience of proactively driving cost efficiencies with ICT suppliers.
• Either CIPS qualified or with the relevant supplier and contract management experience.
• Experience of using KPI\’s and/or SLA\’s drime improved supplier performance.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to liaise confidently across the team
• Strong MS Office skills.
• 5+ years UK residency, (with no extended periods outside of the UK), in order to meet the necessary level of security vetting required.

** You will need to be able to demonstrate that you have lived and worked in the UK for the last 5 years in order to meet the security vetting required for this role **