Senior Procurement Manager - IT Products & Services Job Birmingham area,England UK,Business

Senior Procurement Manager - IT Products & Services

Full-time
Job Title:

Senior Procurement Manager - IT Products & Services
Function:
Finance
Vacancy Type:
Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Circa £82,500 plus company car or cash alternative, bonus and Private Medical Insurance.
Location: Birmingham, however open to be based elsewhere with mandatorytravel to Oldbury 3 times per week.
Days of Work: Monday to Friday (Hybrid)
Hours of Work: 09:00 - 17:00

Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service. You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of over £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career.

DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible. Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again!!!

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer.

The Senior Procurement Manager shall provide category leadership and procurement best practice across IT Infrastructure (Data centres, Networks, Cyber), Customer Communications Technology, Applications, Professional Services and Hardware (EUC and Infra) as well as support wider strategic transformational systems Projects. Spend remit is c.£50M p/a. Implement and maintain best practice for end‑to‑end management of all key supplier decisions, sourcing process, negotiation strategy, financial analysis, contracting, ongoing supplier management and business performance improvement.

Collaborate with broader Geopost functions and subsidiaries to create value, leverage scale and optimise enterprise‑wide benefits.

Key Accountabilities

Define, develop and deliver, short, medium to long term procurement category strategies across relevant category area(s) that are aligned to stakeholder and business needs.

Develop multi-year sourcing pipelines that drive total value, including significant cost savings against agreed targets and strive for continuous improvement.
Execute and lead all category sourcing activities, including RFI/RFP development, negotiation strategy, pricing models and implementation.
Drive change through skilled stakeholder influencing and cross‑departmental collaboration.
Perform detailed supply market analysis to determine trends and innovation.
Maintain regular and effective internal communication with all stakeholder departments.
Build close relationships with operations and finance and contribute to budgets, advising on any shortfall/benefits for the coming year.
Represent Procurement in Geopost European sourcing initiatives where required.

Contract management of strategic suppliers for organisational gain and aligning these suppliers to long‑term business goals.

Manage strategic supplier service performance in conjunction with operations and the business in line with contract commitments, KPI’s, SLA’s seeking to improve where possible.
Supplier segmentation strategies and optimise the supply base.
Re‑negotiate legacy agreements where there is business advantage.
Present ideas to senior level stakeholders and gain buy‑in where required.
Manage internal and external benchmarking on portfolio of categories.

Drive procurement compliance across relevant functions, business systems, policies and processes.

Ensure category spend taxonomy for relevant areas are kept updated.
Ensure contract databases are kept updated.
Work closely with Legal department to ensure robust contractual agreements are put in place to minimise operational and commercial risk.
Drive procurement policy compliance with stakeholders and relevant business functions.
Create procurement market analysis tendering within relevant systems for decision‑making audit purposes.
Factor sustainability credentials and innovation into supplier award decision making.
Work closely with Quality, Risk and Operations to drive service quality enhancements.

Team Leadership of IT commercial assets function.

Leadership of IT Commercial organisation.
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