The UK Procurement team is currently recruiting a Senior IT Procurement Specialist for its IT & Telco Procurement team. The successful candidate will be assigned to a strategic UK account as the Procurement lead and form part of the account leadership team. The key focus of the role consists of leading on self-identified and allocated projects, delivering against agreed timescales and outcomes for the specified areas.
In addition, the strategic UK account includes a client funded procurement service which you will lead with circa four supporting roles. This is a fully outsourced procurement capability and therefore direct interaction with the client and fulfilling their orders to their timescales and other priorities is a key aspect of the role.
Interaction with the client, Business Leaders and vendors is required at senior level and therefore you must be confident and comfortable interacting at all levels.
Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).
Your role
Reporting to the IT & Telco Deputy Country Manager for the UK, the key areas of responsibility will be as follows:
* Acting as Procurement lead and being an active part of the account leadership team
* Negotiate commercial terms and terms and conditions for different types of agreements
* Post contract award contract management
* Provide procurement support to client facing team
* Leading client mandated projects including RFx’s
* Participate in the category definition and implementation of the category roadmap
* Establish account commercial governance meetings with internal stakeholders and vendors, covering programme/project/commercial performance, business changes and priorities, submit propositions and innovation proposals, demand management.
* Attending meetings as required with internal stakeholders, vendors, procurement colleagues, and clients when necessary
* Liaise with Group Category Buyers to understand latest global contracts and trends, define and execute sourcing strategies with global vendors impacting local projects and in the creation of innovative solutions to internal stakeholders and clients.
* Responsible for tracking savings and cost avoidance, dealing with financial planning and forecasting
* Become proficient with procurement tools such as Oracle (GPS) and SAP eSourcing.
You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life, and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.
Your skills and experience
The successful candidate should have experience working across multiple sectors and must be able to demonstrate capability in the following attributes though these are not all necessarily required for this specific role.
* Have strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at a senior level to deliver in line with the agreed sourcing strategies and RTP’s
* Be able to work in a dynamic, fast paced customer environment
* Completing 3rd party due diligence for client projects / bids including transition activities relating to procurement elements
* Sourcing experience – capable of running an RFx process, with good IT knowledge including hardware, software and services, and understand current market trends
* Preparation of, or assisting in the preparation, of category plans and driving savings, whilst aligning with client’s strategies
* Vendor management, including relationship management, performance management, benchmarking
* Contract management including negotiating and implementing new contracts, licence agreements, sub-contracts with back-to-back client terms, amendments, addendums and novations
* Strong IT procurement experience, with a proven track record in supporting bid opportunities (5+ years experience)
* Excellent interpersonal skills both verbal and written when dealing with internal and external clients
Personal Profile
* Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
* Strong communication skills both written and oral
* Excellent stakeholder and supplier management skills
* Team leadership/management experience
* A previous knowledge or background in outsourcing or outsourcing organisations is desirable
Technical Skills
* Excellent working knowledge of MS Office
* Previous exposure to eSourcing systems
What does ‘Get The Future You Want’ mean for you?
Shared Energy
You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.
Your wellbeing
You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
Why you should consider Capgemini
Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.
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