IT Supplier Management Specialist

3 weeks ago


Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Connells Group Full time

About the Role

The IT Supplier Management team at Connells Group is responsible for identifying, selecting, engaging, on-boarding and managing 3rd parties who provide goods and services across the IT enterprise. With support from legal experts, we negotiate binding contracts with service providers that deliver value across the sourcing lifecycle and ensure the company is paying the optimal price.

Responsibilities:

  • Engaging and onboarding new suppliers of required services in accordance with supplier management policies and standards
  • Ensuring contracts, governance approach and service quality measures are appropriate to the value of the engagement and that compliance with regulatory and statutory obligations is embedded throughout the engagement
  • Negotiating the best price for agreed services, considering the end to end lifetime value of the engagement
  • Maintaining successful relationships with peers within IT and suppliers
  • Personally, adhering to Connells Group standards and policies including those regulatory and legal obligations that are our passport to do business. Identifying and appropriately escalating if you identify any breaches

Requirements:

  • Experience in an IT Supplier Management function; good understanding IT supplier categories such as Software, Hardware, Software as a Service (SaaS), Network Management Systems and Telecoms.
  • Evidence of ability to establish credibility as a subject matter expert at senior and operational levels.
  • Experience in developing and negotiating robust contracts for IT goods and services with evidence of achieving outcomes that balance the interests of all parties
  • Ability to leverage value across the lifetime of a 3rd party engagement
  • A proven record of dealing with complex projects and meeting conflicting demands
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to translate technical language into clear, accurate terminology that non-technical people understand

Connells Group is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK and as of March 2021 also encompasses Countrywide. Founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,250 branches nationwide, the Group combines residential sales and lettings expertise with a range of consumer and corporate services including new homes, mortgage services, conveyancing, EPC provision, surveying, corporate lettings, asset management, land & planning, LPA receivers and auctions.

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.



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