Global Category Manager – Technology Professional Services
Location: York or London (at least one day per week travel to York if London based) - Hybrid working
Job Type: Contractor
Day rate contract (inside IR35) until end 2025
We are looking for a Global Category Manager for Technology Professional Services to help deliver the final stages of a journey to transform our approach to procurement right across our business, including a 2 year programme to implement a market leading iValua Source to Pay (S2P) system enterprise wide.
To support this you will:
* Lead the Professional Services Category Management team, taking line management responsibility for Category Analysts, ensuring they perform effectively and contribute to delivery of the Category Plan.
* Use your market knowledge to shape, build, maintain and deliver the overall Category Strategy for your assigned area(s) within Technology, including developing a prioritised set of Procurement opportunities agreed with stakeholders which bring about sustainable benefits for Hiscox.
* Be a trusted advisor to Chief Technology Officer level stakeholders by helping to shape their strategy through your market insight.
* Deliver end-to-end commercial, contractual and relationship lifecycle value, in the eyes of key stakeholders especially ensuring that you:
o Develop optimum routes to market based on market developments and business requirements.
o Develop clear service specification that enable best service provision fit.
o Recognising Hiscox commitment to ESG, ensure that suppliers share our commitments and have plans which deliver on this agenda.
o As a regulated business ensure that suppliers proposals clearly demonstrate compliance to all applicable laws and regulations.
* Identify, manage and mitigate commercial and supply chain risk, ensuring effective Due Diligence is completed with appropriate evidence effectively stored post contract signature.
* Be Hiscox’s lead negotiator in developing commercial opportunities for your category. You will have the required skills to draft contracts and appropriate schedules using a suite of approved templates/clauses.
Skills/Capabilities:
* Expert Technology Category management development skills, particularly in (but not limited to) the Technology Professional Services space, including demonstrable experience in developing meaningful Category Strategies and in-depth knowledge of the Technology Professional Services space ideally shown in a Global context.
* Insurance or Financial Services experience is a must.
* Demonstrable stakeholder management ability up to Executive level with the gravitas to interact and influence at that level to deliver effective category strategies across Hiscox which are collaborative and unlock Innovation.
* Very strong experience of third-party contractual work is a must combined with the ability to lead and deliver initiatives to improve the quality and value of the components of our cost base within your assigned Category areas.
* Very strong knowledge of commercial models and approach/techniques necessary to achieve best in class sourcing deals.
* Very strong contract drafting skills with the ability to create associated Schedules of legal Agreements.
* Experience of use of S2P systems is an advantage.
* Professional qualification (CIPS).
About Hiscox
As an international specialist insurer we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance products. Instead we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better way of doing things.
We insure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong. Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions.
Scratch beneath the surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary. We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places.
Diversity and Hybrid working
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.
We have also learned over the past few years that working life doesn’t always have to be in the office, and now it is safe to do so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance.
This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance. We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.
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