Senior Category Manager (Technology) in Leeds

• Senior Category Manager - Technology
• Hybrid: 2 days per week (Dublin only)
• Permanent

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 coordinated 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 Senior Category Manager in Technology 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 positive relationships with senior‑level internal Technology stakeholders; building 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 improvements both internally in procurement and with our suppliers.
• Lead business reviews with premier global IT suppliers and stakeholders to review vendor performance, risk management, future opportunities, and/or challenges and coordinate 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 proficiencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmark 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 using spend analysis and engaging with stakeholders to consolidate requirements over categories, suppliers and geographies.
• Lead 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 lead across all levels on a strategic and operational basis in a large complex organisation.
• In‑depth experience in outstanding procurement practices (category management, benchmarking, RFX, end‑to‑end contract management, etc.).
• Strong negotiator with validated experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations.
• Strong experience assessing risk and concisely explaining sophisticated issues to key business owners.
• Very 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 and experience balancing multiple simultaneous projects.
• Hard‑working self‑starter with the highest level of integrity and ethics.
• What’s In It For 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
• Well‑being fund (£/€250 a year)
• Recognition programs
• Electric car scheme, gym membership, discounts, vouchers and much more!
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