Senior Procurement Category Lead – Technology

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement global category strategies for technology spend, aligned with business priorities, technology roadmaps, and financial objectives.
• Lead complex sourcing activities, including market analysis, RFI, RFP, competitive tendering, supplier evaluation, negotiation, and contract award.
• Manage commercial negotiations for new agreements, renewals, and contract changes, securing improvements in pricing, service levels, contractual protections, and overall value.
• Develop a structured forward plan for technology renewals, ensuring sufficient time for demand validation, market testing, negotiation, and stakeholder approval.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate suppliers, standardise technology services and leverage Group-wide purchasing power across operating companies.
• Work with technology and business stakeholders to challenge demand, validate requirements, and identify opportunities to optimise licences, usage, specifications, and service scope.
• Manage key technology supplier relationships through regular performance reviews, commercial governance, SLA monitoring, and improvement planning.
• Partner with Legal, Information Security, Compliance, Finance, and other stakeholders to ensure supplier risks and contractual obligations are appropriately managed.
• Support the development and implementation of supplier relationship management practices for strategic and business-critical technology suppliers.
• Provide commercial and procurement support for major technology transformation programmes, implementations, and strategic projects.
• Monitor market trends, supplier developments, emerging technologies, and commercial models to identify risks, opportunities, and potential innovation.
• Ensure sourcing and contracting activities comply with procurement policies, delegated authority, supplier due diligence requirements, and internal governance processes.
• Maintain accurate reporting of sourcing activity, savings, cost avoidance, supplier risk, contract status, and category performance.
• Build strong relationships with regional operating companies and support the adoption of consistent procurement processes and preferred supplier arrangements.
• Contribute to the continued development of the Global Procurement function, including category management tools, templates, governance, and best-practice processes.

The Secret Sauce:

• Significant procurement and category management experience within technology, IT or telecommunications spend.
• Demonstrable experience managing categories such as software, SaaS, cloud services, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure, hardware, telecommunications, or technology professional services.
• Strong experience leading complex and high-value sourcing exercises, including RFI and RFP processes, supplier evaluations, and contract negotiations.
• Proven track record of delivering measurable cost savings, cost avoidance, commercial improvements, and supplier performance benefits.
• Strong understanding of technology commercial models, including subscription licensing, consumption-based pricing, enterprise agreements, cloud commitments, and managed services.
• Experience managing contract renewals and identifying opportunities for licence optimisation, demand management, and supplier consolidation.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to analyse pricing models, supplier proposals, total cost of ownership and business cases.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders across Technology, Information Security, Finance, Legal and operational business functions.
• Strong negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple sourcing projects and priorities across different business areas, regions, and timelines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present commercial recommendations clearly to senior decision-makers.
• A proactive and pragmatic approach, with the confidence to challenge requirements and drive decisions.

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