IT Category Lead

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Fastmarkets Full time
Job Title: IT Category Lead

Fastmarkets is seeking a highly motivated and experienced IT Category Lead to join our team. As a key member of our procurement function, you will be responsible for developing and implementing a category strategy for IT procurement, including identifying opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and implement a category strategy for IT procurement, including identifying opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand IT requirements and forecast future needs, focusing on cost-saving opportunities and efficiency improvements.
  • Lead the engagement with suppliers for the acquisition of technology to deliver the best value for Fastmarkets.
  • Lead all procurement activity from the Technology function in accordance with the Procurement Policy and playbooks, including new requirements, renewals, and projects.
  • Provide support to the Technology Function in the procurement policy and process, where they can self-serve.
  • Ensure that robust contracts are agreed with all key suppliers and all suppliers.

Key Interfaces:

This role will work closely with the rest of the Procurement function and all colleagues within the Technology function, as well as across all other business functions as required, particularly Finance, Legal, Risk & Compliance, and Information Security.

Qualifications:

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and has a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important, as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Experience:

  • A great track record with category management experience within the assigned IT portfolio, particularly in SaaS, managed service providers, cloud, Telecomms, data and voice, licensing, and hardware.
  • Experience in relationship management and networking skills, required for both key stakeholder and supplier engagement.

Skills and Knowledge:

  • A strong knowledge of commercial models and approaches/techniques necessary to achieve great commercial outcomes for Fastmarkets.
  • An in-depth knowledge of the IT category.
  • A good knowledge of contract drafting with the ability to work with Legal colleagues to achieve a robust agreement.
  • Good negotiation, influencing skills.
  • Good communication skills to be able to extract detail and evidence as required from colleagues and/or suppliers.
  • Strong analytical skills and being comfortable in analysing and interrogating data to support any category plans.
  • Advanced level of PC literacy, particularly in the Microsoft Office suite.

Behaviours and Characteristics:

  • Enthusiastic, proactive, and keen to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
  • Results, deadline, and quality driven.
  • Uses own initiative to identify problems and deliver solutions.
  • Confidence and desire to take responsibility for deliverables.
  • Good attention to detail.
  • Strong time management skills and the ability to meet and/or exceed deadlines.

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world's leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

Our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

  • METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers' experience and our business performance.
  • ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done.
  • GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency.
  • INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
  • CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do.
  • COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

If you like what you've read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it's time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it's used to determine whether or not you'll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we'll ask you on the day.

It's vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you're great.

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