Procurement Business Partner - IT

The purpose of this role is to deliver efficient, value-driven procurement that enables YouGov’s strategic objectives. With an initial focus on IT and technology spend, you will develop and deliver category strategies, lead end-to-end sourcing activity, and partner closely with technical and business stakeholders to ensure optimal commercial outcomes across the full procurement lifecycle. This is a highly collaborative role, combining strategic business partnering with hands-on delivery across sourcing, contracting, and supplier relationship management.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Procurement & Business Partnering
  • Manage a varied and prioritised workload across strategic and tactical procurements, process improvement initiatives, and proactive stakeholder engagement.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, project managers, and technical leads to develop effective category, sourcing, contract, and supplier strategies.
  • Build and maintain a forward-looking pipeline of procurement opportunities through proactive spend analysis, contract review, market intelligence, and close business partnering.
  • Conduct market research and analysis to identify supplier capabilities, commercial models, and innovative solutions that deliver value for money.
  • Use data, Excel-based analysis, and procurement systems to evaluate options such as demand consolidation, alternative suppliers, internal delivery models, or workforce solutions.
• Delivering Effective Procurements
  • Lead YouGov’s most complex, high-value, and high-profile procurement projects end-to-end, while also supporting lower-value tactical activity as required.
  • Facilitate collaborative workshops and meetings with internal and external stakeholders, including requirements definition, evaluation criteria development, and supplier engagement events.
  • Negotiate commercial, contractual, and service terms to secure optimal outcomes on cost, quality, risk, and performance.
  • Respond quickly and effectively to changing priorities, including urgent tactical procurements or contract amendments.
• Contract & Supplier Management
  • Support supplier onboarding, ensuring timely and accurate completion of due diligence and documentation.
  • Build and maintain strong, collaborative supplier relationships to drive innovation, reliability, and mutual value.
  • Manage supplier performance through KPIs, governance frameworks, and feedback mechanisms.
  • Support and enable devolved contract managers across the business to manage supplier performance effectively.
• Risk Management & Compliance
  • Ensure procurement activities comply with organisational policies, regulatory requirements, and professional best practice.
  • Identify and mitigate risks related to supplier dependency, cybersecurity, data protection, and technology obsolescence.
  • Promote sustainability, social value, and corporate social responsibility within procurement strategies and supplier selection.

Essentials to get an interview

• Significant experience managing indirect procurement, with strong focus on IT categories from strategy through to contract execution.
• Proven experience managing complex IT supplier relationships and large-scale technology contracts, either directly or in partnership with technical leads.
• Strong negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with procurement and e-sourcing tools such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of IT procurement, including software licensing, cloud services, IT consulting, and hardware.
• Familiarity with IT and information security frameworks and standards such as ITIL, ISO 27001, and COBIT.

Why join YouGov?

Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities. Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.

Life at YouGov

We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do. We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.

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