Category Manager - Technology in Leeds

The Procurement function in Flutter is responsible for the governance of external third party spend of over £6bn per annum across the various business units. To ensure a cohesive and co-ordinated approach to supplier spend management across the business, Flutter has a Group Category Management team led by the Director - Global Supplier Partnerships and Category Management.

The Technology Category Manager is a strategic role within this team responsible for procurement, category planning, strategy and SRPM (Supplier Risk and Performance Management) across our global technology spend in partnership with our divisional procurement teams and business stakeholders. A key element of the role is leading on strategic business partnering and performance management with Global suppliers across all our Group brands to optimise their spend and delivery. The ability to influence at Director and LT level is critical to this role to achieve cross divisional co-ordination of projects and strategies.

Leadership on category planning / savings budgets, SRPM and project management across Flutter's four Divisional Procurement teams is a vital aspect of this role. It requires strong influencing and organisational skills to gain cross divisional alignment on Technology category spend management, helping set and deliver long term vision and priorities for the category and inspiring Divisional Category Managers to follow.

What you'll do

• Establish strong relationships with Senior level internal Technology stakeholders; build a strong understanding of strategic business direction, requirements and priorities and translate that across key Technology supplier partners and spend categories.
• Develop global category sourcing strategies and spend management plans to deliver against business objectives for Technology.
• Drive Flutter's SRPM Minimum Standards programme across our global Technology supplier base to manage both Performance and Risk effectively.
• Drive value and synergy savings via managing negotiations on a global basis.
• Continually look for performance and process enhancements both internally in procurement and with our suppliers.
• Lead business reviews with top Tier global IT suppliers and stakeholders to review vendor performance, risk management, future opportunities, and/or challenges and oversee implementation of actions following these.
• Act as a "trusted advisor" to Senior Flutter IT leaders in terms of supplier performance and spend management.
• Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and bench-marking analysis from industry sources.
• Provide IT leadership with key category insights and trends using industry reports such as those developed by Gartner.
• Identify sourcing opportunities by leveraging spend analysis and engaging with stakeholders to consolidate requirements over categories, suppliers and geographies.
• Manage the fundamentals of Flutter's Global sourcing and supplier engagement activities including RFx, spend analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation.
• Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement strategies and maintaining procurement ethics and governance in accordance with Flutter's global policies.

How you'll do it

• Extensive experience in Technology procurement in a Global Sourcing role, with a multinational corporation and global contracts.
• The ability to manage across all levels on a strategic and operational basis in a large complex organisation.
• In-depth experience in best-in-class procurement practices (category management, benchmarking, RFX, end to end contract management, etc.)
• Strong negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations.
• Strong experience assessing risk and concisely explaining complex issues to key business owners.
• Extremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
• Analytical skills including the ability to quickly analyse, distil and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data.
• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects.
• Passionate self-starter with the highest level of integrity and ethics.

What’s in it for you

We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy, we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:

• Bonus scheme
• Uncapped holiday allowance
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Hybrid working
• £1,000 annual self-development learning fund
• Invest via the Flutter Sharesave Scheme
• Paid volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave
• Wellbeing fund (£/€250 a year)
• Recognition programs
• Electric car scheme, gym membership, discounts, vouchers and much more!

About Flutter

We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, with a market leading position in the US and across the world. We have an unparalleled portfolio of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, Junglee Games and Adjarabet. With our global scale and challenger attitude, through which we excite and entertain our customers, in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power, the Flutter Edge, we aim to disrupt the sector, learning from the past to create a better future for our customers, colleagues and communities.

We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.