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Are you an experienced IT Procurement Manager with a passion for leading procurement strategy and ensuring competitive advantage? Are you an effective communicator who can thoroughly understand business needs in complex IT service environments? If these attributes apply to you, keep reading! An exciting permanent opportunity has arisen for a Procurement Category Manager to join our client, a leading Financial Institution, to drive lead in the subcategory of IT Services with a spend in excess of $500m USD per annum. Your responsibilities will include:Lead/ support as necessary the creation and maintenance of a pipeline of projects to achieve or exceed agreed savings target for the category.Understand complex business problems, apply advanced analytical thinking / market knowledge and drive the most appropriate business outcome. Communicate category concepts in a way that is relevant to the businessEnsure category and project data (savings, pipeline, milestones, risks, issues, taxonomy) is accurate and reflective of realityEnsure quality of content and compliance with relevant sourcing and category planning governance forums (challenge boards, category planning boards, fortnightly status meetings)Monitor the status of the category, and drive corrective action to ensure savings targets are achieved or exceeded Work with the Category Director, GCM, Heads of Procurement, country teams and Procurement Operations (Resource Management) team to prioritise and schedule all strategic sourcing initiatives for the year, in alignment with business milestonesDrive embedding of best practices and compliance to all Source to Pay processes through personal performanceThought leadership in the development and enhancement of Source to Pay processes Experience & Skills Required: Strong experience of IT procurement roles and specific experience in the IT Services category specifically.Depth of experience in IT consulting, systems integration services managed services and resourcing Category Management.Experience in leading negotiations and managing large value procurementHaving worked within complex, multi-layered organisations and worked to the pace and drive required. Has degree or CIPS related qualifications. If you have similar experience to that outlined above and are looking for a new and exciting role to advance your career, please forward your CV today. Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.