IT Commodity Manager, Procurement

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute IT sourcing strategies to optimise supplier performance, cost, quality, and risk.
• Lead RFI, RFQ, and RFP activities, supplier evaluation, selection, and contract award recommendations.
• Manage IT agreements, including software licences, hardware purchases, MSAs, SOWs, renewals, and negotiations.
• Partner with business stakeholders, Legal, Finance, and suppliers to achieve procurement objectives.
• Deliver savings and process improvements and support procurement governance, compliance, and supplier performance management.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, Information Technology, or another analytical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• At least five years of procurement, strategic sourcing, contract management, or supplier management experience focused on IT software, hardware, and/or professional services.
• Demonstrated complex commercial negotiation and customer-side supplier relationship management experience.
• Strong analytical, organisational, and project management skills, including managing multiple priorities.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and deliver results without direct authority.
• Strong communication, presentation, relationship-building, integrity, and attention to detail.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience managing the full RFX process.
• Working knowledge of SAP, SAP Business Network (Ariba), or similar procurement technologies.
• Experience with SaaS agreements, IT service agreements, MSAs, SOWs, and software licensing contracts.
• Familiarity with IP, commercial, data privacy, and technology-services contract provisions.
• Experience creating procurement dashboards, reporting tools, or supplier performance metrics.

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