IT Contracts Manager

Purpose of the role

In this key role, you’ll be accountable for developing procurement strategies for the provision of IT software and services. Driving performance, you’ll facilitate and manage the whole procurement process - from market and business analysis, through competitive tendering and negotiation, to contract award, agreement implementation and ongoing commercial management.

responsibilities

Supporting the internal and external monitoring of supply chain relationships, and coordinating and mapping supply chain activities, you’ll ensure service levels and price competitiveness are maintained and enhanced. Benchmarking vendor supply chains, you’ll make recommendations on their supplier relationships and procurement approach. You’ll ensure our business needs are met by collaborating with the IT Procurement Manager and key business managers to devise sourcing strategies which deliver leading edge solutions.

Skills Required

Educated to degree level, you are a Corporate Member of CIPS with significant purchasing experience. Operating at Senior Contracts Manager level within a similarly large and complex organisation, you have a track record of managing major purchasing portfolios.

With a broad knowledge of procurement, and specific experience of procuring IT software and services, you have the confidence to select and apply appropriate purchasing tools in order to analyse the supplier marketplace, develop strategies, evaluate and select suppliers. Experience of SaaS would be very useful. A team player with excellent relationship building and influencing skills, you have a flexible approach, and must be willing to travel as necessary to meet internal clients’ needs.

Company Details

RWE npower supplies electricity and gas to millions of residential and business customers. We’re part of the RWE Group, one of Europe’s leading utilities. We generate power from coal, oil and gas, and we’ve also got a business that’s pioneering the development and use of renewable energy sources. Of course, the real energy behind our businesses is our people.