Entain are looking for a Senior Procurement Category Manager – Infrastructure / IT, to join its growing global business.
Reporting to the Head of IT Procurement, the key purpose of this role is to optimise 3rd party spend on IT expenditure across Entain, through the delivery of the identified integration benefit and creation of short/mid/long-term value optimisation strategies aligned to the objectives of the business.
IT experience in Infrastructure On Prem, Cloud and Databases is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage IT community to understand business strategies
- Develop medium and long term IT Strategies, ensuring commercial tension across all areas of spend
- Build a cutting-edge knowledge of the supply base, providing informed insights to the IT community
- Using stakeholder and supplier networks, identify continuous improvement and step-change opportunities to product and service specifications
- Identification of revenue improvement opportunities
- Own and embody the team’s values, including the promotion and embedding within the team
- Understand and ensure the implementation of all IT Integration benefits through both personal delivery and matrix engagement with the IT teams
- Financial reporting of cost improvement on a P&L basis, interpreting CAPEX, OPEX, depreciation and cash flow
- Optimise buying channels, to ensure efficient transactional procurement
- Understand critical areas for Innovation and build a pipeline of opportunities to be shared with the supplier community
- Identification of global synergies
This will specifically include:
- Creation of global IT commercial strategy identifying all sources of benefit short/mid and long term
- Lead on Integration and execution benefit delivery opportunities
- Ratification of the IT LC integration benefits and review, for opportunities to over deliver or accelerate benefit delivery
- Provision of strong commercial leadership on all areas of IT costs
- Develop and conduct Rfx’s for market activity ensuring size and complexity are fit for purpose
- Creation of IT innovation plan
- Creation and buy in to key supplier management strategy to drive improved performance across the supply base
- Develop an understanding and knowledge of all industry specific technology solutions
- Become a “trusted advisor” member of the IT community
Maximise contract compliance and spend under management