Senior IT Vendor Manager

To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrable experience of managing teams of Vendor Management Specialists. You will be able to demonstrate strong coaching and mentoring skills, with a record of developing your direct reports. You will also have significant successful experience of negotiating and managing contract life cycles at a senior level within a technology and/or outsourced IT environment.

You will also have:

Deep market knowledge in two or more IT categories, including applications management, hardware, software, service, and communication with a broad knowledge across all IT categories.

Demonstrable experience of effective stakeholder and relationship management at senior level as well as with multiple vendors, legal and procurement functions.

Strong specialist knowledge of procurement and vendor management practices, including experience of the tender lifecycle, contracting trends, licensing models and traditional and emerging contract and vendor performance models.

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and are one of only 39 companies across the globe, and the only organisation with headquarters in the UK, to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2022 award. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021. We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.