Category Manager (IT infrastructure) (m/f)

Cpl Jobs is a part of the larger European recruitment and HR services group, Cpl Resources. We help the greatest talents to develop their careers and enable leading companies on the Polish and European market to find the best professionals. For our Client, international well known organization for its Shared Service Centre, we are currently looking for candidates for a position of: 

Category Manager (IT Infrastructure) (m/f)

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the successful completion of all sourcing projects by achieving a strong commercial and contractual outcome.
• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements, develop sourcing strategies and make all necessary arrangements to ensure that cost, risk and service requirements are met.
• Develop a pipeline of sourcing activities in line with contract expiry dates, potential cost saving opportunities and new investment projects.
• Ensuring consistent application of value levers.
• Articulate and disseminate agreed terms and key operational aspects of the contract (ensure all parties understand their obligations post transition).
• Building relationships with key stakeholders in the Infrastructure category and prioritizing their needs.
• Line management responsibility for one team member. Sourcing specialist will assist with complex sourcing, manage end to end simple sourcing projects and contribute to SRM where appropriate.
• Coaching and mentoring team member, demonstrating best practice across sourcing and supplier management disciplines.
• Ensuring that critical suppliers within the infrastructure category are identified and properly managed in line with the company SRM approach in ensure full benefits realization and risk management.
• Negotiate complex procurement contracts with suppliers to achieve best value.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation through supplier relationship management with strategic suppliers.

You will report to the Global Sourcing Leader for IT and Change

Requirements

• Extensive experience in IT Infrastructure procurement, including: Networks, Telecoms, Hardware (end user, server, network),Hardware maintenance, Infrastructure and colleague services outsourcing, Hosting / Datacentres / Cloud services.
• Impressive track record of progression within your IT Procurement career to date.
• Previous experience in supporting large and complex IT change programme needs (e.g. procurement of complex offshore outsourcing arrangements).
• Previous experience in financial services (insurance preferred).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A self-starter who leads from the front on sourcing projects.
• Line management experience.
• Ability to communicate key commercial considerations and risks to stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and growing organization where the control environment is maturing and where there is therefore a need to be flexible and pragmatic.
• Very experienced in reviewing and drafting service contracts, statements of work, software license terms and contract changes / variations.
• Able to manage and prioritize a busy pipeline and work on multiple sourcing projects simultaneously.
• Degree-level education or MCIPS.