IT Sourcing Manager

Job Title:  IT Sourcing Manager
Salary: £59,850 - £66,500
Location: Edinburgh, Bristol and Halifax
Hours:  Full time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh, Bristol or Halifax office.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!
 

About this opportunity

In Group Sourcing and Supplier Management (GS&SM), we play a pivotal role in delivering this vision, through closely working with our stakeholders and supplier network to deliver value at pace and scale. It's a phenomenal time of change and transformation within the Group and GS&SM teams are at the heart of that change.

Not only that, but it’s a great place to work. We have a strong culture and set of values where we look to live the core values of Putting People First, being Bold, being Inclusive and Trusting each other all whilst championing Sustainability in all that we do.

But what makes the Bank and in particular this GS&SM organisation special? Without a doubt it is the people and culture. Working for GS&SM you will be supported by knowledgeable colleagues. We are also a strong advocate of Inclusion and Diversity.

As an IT sourcing manager, you’ll lead delivery of sourcing category strategies and projects and aligned supplier management activities. You’ll build strong relationships with suppliers and stakeholders to influence business priorities and understand future trends and requirements.

What you’ll do
 

• Operating as a member of the technology sourcing team, ’you will be reporting to a Senior Sourcing Manager and work with a team of experienced technology sourcing professionals, contributing to the ongoing development of the vision and purpose, supporting the continued advancement of the function

• Manage the end to sourcing activity and commercial negotiations for applicable activity, ensuring delivering of the most optimal solution from a customer, commercial, technology and risk perspective.

• Developing and nurturing critical relationships with key partners, driving commercial thinking by challenging what we have always done in order to deliver greater commercial value for the organisation

• Manage and deliver required outcomes for a portfolio of contracts, while planning, coordinating and supervising activities related to major contracts, within established procurement procedures and  risk management systems.

• Maintaining an effective and up to date understanding of the technology supply market.

• Being results orientated, commercially minded technology sourcing manager who is able to demonstrate a track record of success in fast paced, dynamic business environments; with evidence of enabling cloud transformation at scale in a dynamic sourcing environment, this will be the ideal opportunity for you to continue your personal and professional development

• Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities.

What you’ll need
 

• Demonstrable negotiation and influencing skills and capability.

• Being highly risk conscious and appreciation of all aspects of operational, commercial and contractual 

• Technology sourcing expertise with a specific depth of knowledge and experience of IT services, software, and technology categories

• Experience in developing and delivering to sourcing plans and strategies and supporting business areas on projects with varying degrees of complexity.

• Strong analytical and communication skills

• An upbeat, resilient, and adaptable style, which can be evidenced of success in constantly evolving environment

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?
Join our journey!