Vendor & Performance Analyst in Birmingham

Job Description

Base salary: £35,244pa to c.£41,464pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

The IT Vendor & Performance Analyst supports day‑to‑day implementation of HS2’s IT vendor strategy to drive performance across the supply chain and meet IT and business objectives. The role conducts portfolio management activities for HS2’s IT vendor landscape, ensuring that value is delivered through execution of third‑party supplier relationships. This role also has accountability for managing operational transactions, including but not limited to purchase orders, invoicing, invoices and recharges.

About The Role

• Responsible for execution of operational transactions for the IT budget. This includes purchase orders, invoicing, accruals, invoices, journals, recharges, identification of spend to be capitalised on the balance sheet
• Conduct ongoing market research to support vendor strategy and sourcing strategy development
• Apply appropriate procedures, methodologies and tools to manage the entire existing IT supplier contract portfolio, ensuring recommendations are made in due time to relevant forums for renewal, cessation, extension, or new demand.
• Support ongoing vendor engagement with a view to simplify, lower the cost, and deliver better value for the IT contract portfolio.
• Support in maintaining a new vendor demand pipeline in collaboration with IT stakeholders, making recommendations for action where appropriate.
• Support collation of required financial data and reports for analysis and to facilitate decision‑making.
• Support the monitoring of information quality and ensure information provided is suitable for analysis and controlling, managing, and recording IT costs.
• Support preparation of operational planning data for single and multi‑year financial planning. Provide IT requirements to Corporate Procurement and Contract Management to be executed in line with HS2 corporate guidelines
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You

• Continual service improvement. Ability to analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements.
• Stakeholder Management. Ability to build and manage strong relationships, as well as influence internal and external stakeholders
• Collaboration. Ability to work collaboratively both within IT and with Directorates outside of IT in relation to operational transactions.
• Data analysis. Analysing data to provide useful management information to key stakeholders using relevant tools.
• Service reporting. Ability to effectively use data analytics to showcase business performance.
• Portfolio Management. Ability to manage a portfolio of IT vendors and contracts in order to deliver better value to the business

Knowledge

• Basic knowledge of policy, legislative, regulatory, and operational constraints, adapting technology where needed.
• Knowledge of procurement frameworks, issues, risks, governance, compliance, and assurance.
• Knowledge of standard SLAs and vendor contracts
• Understanding of the business product environment, and its impact on supplier contract management
• Some knowledge of the industry and functional areas

Type Of Experience

• Experience of using IT frameworks and procedures
• Experience of commercial, partner, vendor, or supplier management where governance, quality and compliance criteria has been met, in a similar sized company to HS2
• Experience working in a complex, multi‑vendor environment
• Experience in managing a portfolio of vendors and vendor contracts with a view to optimizing value to the business

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety‑critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.