Category Lead, Technology Procurement

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom NatWest Group Full time

Join us as a Category Lead, Technology ProcurementWe'll look to you to give us a competitive advantage and improve our customer experienceBy partnering with business leaders, you'll be supporting, developing and delivering innovative procurement solutions that align with our cost and risk appetite expectationsThis is an opportunity to achieve excellent exposure in a highly visible leadership role and to make a real impact with your work What you'll doAs a Category Lead, you'll be leading joined-up, global procurement strategies and solutions that incorporate the full contract life cycle, focussed on enabling your business partners to achieve their goals.Leading a global team of procurement managers both directly and indirectly, you'll also be leading the development and management of our supply base in line with our strategy, including owning and developing key strategic suppliers on behalf of the bank, identifying potential new suppliers and managing and improving supplier performance.In addition, you'll be:Delivering proactive plans and prioritising all available resource to ensure efficient delivery and management of the supply base in line with business goalsLeading and building strong networks across the supply market and other external organisations, including peers, and developing deep insights and analysisDeveloping powerful internal and external relationships through a deep understanding of your assigned business area's strategy and goals and its supply chainBe recognised as a business partner for developing supply chain strategies that accelerate achievement of business goalsImplementing the stakeholder management strategy and be recognised for delivering an excellent supply chain service to those stakeholdersThe skills you'll needTo succeed in this role, you'll need deep category and supplier management knowledge and experience across a variety of technology categories with a demonstrable track record of success in implementation. You'll be educated to degree level or equivalent, and you'll have experience in leading and developing teams through direct and indirect line management. You'll be able to manage stakeholder relationships at a senior level and business critical supplier relationships and contracts to deliver sustainable improvement.You'll also demonstrate:An inquisitive, data led approach to problem solving and decision makingKnowledge of contract law and legal knowledge relevant to procurementExperience in applying procurement and business partnering skills and techniques to positively disrupt business strategy and outcomesA proven track record in taking ownership of resolving issues within a procurement environmentExperience in designing and implementing a variety of supply chain models leveraging technology such as AI and cloud services as well as more traditional offshore, outsourcing, utility and make versus buy techniquesExcellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build and maintain complex and multiple business stakeholder relationshipsHours35Job Posting Closing Date:08/12/2025Ways of Working:Hybrid



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