IT Procurement Manager

Azets Group

Azets are a leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisers operating across the UK, Ireland and the Nordics. We have a wide network of employees and an abundance of inspiring opportunities to join one of our many offices!

We are a top ten accountancy firm in the UK and are the number one largest SME practice.

The role

As IT Procurement Manager, you will be an integral part of the Group Procurement Team, which is a growing function in the business. This role will report into the Group IT Business Partner. This position is wide-ranging and will involve partnering with an extensive list of stakeholders of all levels of seniority across the firm.

As part of an ambitious and acquisitive organisation, you will be exposed to a range of responsibilities with genuine depth and variety.

This position will be a hybrid role, primarily home-based with some travel into Azets offices required. You can be based in any of our offices across the UK.

Key accountabilities

• As a central member of the Group Procurement Team, you will work closely with the IT Procurement Business Partner and Group Head of Procurement to support IT and the businesses’ procurement needs.
• You will need to build strong effective relationships with key stakeholders across the UK and Nordics to understand the business’ needs, ensuring issues are understood and accounted for in strategy development and during project delivery.
• You will support in building the IT Procurement Forward Plan, including proactive identification of savings/value creation opportunities, in support of wider organisational objectives and priorities.
• End-to-end sourcing management including requirement analysis, market research, evaluation, commercial negotiation, and contracting.
• Support IT Business Partner on larger, complex projects providing project management and analytics support.
• Contract negotiations and drafting (with support from legal as required).
• Accountable for delivery and tracking of savings and value creation for assigned projects.
• Support with contract renewal monitoring, strategy preparation, and negotiation.
• Ensuring contracts are recorded correctly in the Contract Management database.
• IT Supplier monitoring and tracking in line with our ISO27001 vendor risk management framework.
• Supplier Management: Support in the development and deployment of group standards, tools, and working practices to improve supplier performance management. Supports the business to design and implement appropriate supplier management plans and supports reviews for critical/strategic suppliers.

Skills & experience

• IT Sourcing and Procurement Expert (ideally with 3-5 years experience in an IT procurement category management role) – particularly with experience in IT Software.
• Chartered Institute Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) qualified or studying towards preferred.
• Strong commercial and analytical skills.
• A self-driven individual capable of working effectively independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to take responsibility for a project and drive progress whilst keeping the relevant parties updated.
• Strong prioritisation skills and able to work under pressure with competing deadlines.

Other

As this is a growing business area, you will also have the opportunity to support the Group Head of Procurement on procurement function development and support/contribute to a number of Supply Chain focused ESG initiatives.