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About the role
- IT Category Manager at Unilabs focusing on sourcing strategy for IT procurement. Collaborating with stakeholders and driving supplier performance in a hybrid work environment.
Responsibilities
- Gains agreement and implements sourcing strategy for designated IT categories based on business needs and market insights.
- Expert for nominated category. Becomes “go-to” person for advice on market and sourcing trends. Develops deep understanding of category.
- Conduct spends analysis and supplier segmentation to identify opportunities.
- Support the Senior Global IT Category Manager in cross-border IT deals and end-to-end category management process that includes RFPs, negotiations, and contract awards/management
- Ensure contracts are commercially robust and legally compliant.
- Collaborate and build strong relationships with IT and business stakeholders to ensure to align spend category objectives with organisational goals.
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial terms in IT contracts.
- Report, monitor on savings, compliance and risk
- Drive supplier innovation and continuous improvement
- Manage supplier performance, including service levels, KPIs, and relationship development.
Requirements
- Extensive experience i.e. 5+ years in IT procurement, strategic sourcing and category management within multinational environments
- Strong understanding of IT markets, licensing models, and digital technologies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven expertise in IT contract negotiation and management of software licencing models and commercial frameworks, across Technology categories (Software, IT Services i.e. SaaS, cloud, enterprise agreements, Hardware and Telecoms)
- Collaborative, engaging and influential style, with proven success building credible senior stakeholders and shape business decisions.
- Certifications like CIPS, ITIL would be an advantage
- Fluent in English, spoken and written
- A highly collaborative and true team player.
- Proactive with a positive, solutions-focused mindset.
- Comfortable working at pace, consistently delivering to deadlines, and stable under pressure.
- Resilient and adaptable to change
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