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What we're looking for

Join our dynamic team at Lloyd's Register as a IS Category Manager. In this pivotal role, you will be working closely with budget-owner and stakeholders across the IT organisation, you will be responsible for developing and implementing individual IT, Digital, Telecommunication, and related technology category procurement strategies, aligned with digital transformation plans. Your mission will be focusing on achieving value for money (VFM), reduction of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), margin improvement initiatives, and (SRM) supplier relationship management in the immediate term. Contributing to overall procurement and sustainability strategies.

As a IS Category Manager, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of maritime technology while enjoying a rewarding career with a global leader in the industry. If you're a strategic thinker with a passion for procurement and technologies, we invite you to bring your expertise to our team and be a driving force in shaping the maritime industry's digital transformation. Join us in delivering excellence and driving maritime safety and efficiency to new heights.

What we offer you

The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose, is values driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programmes
A full-time permanent role with an attractive compensation package
Hybrid model of work

The role

The IT Procurement Category Manager will own the overall supplier relationships with technology partners and maintain a close alignment with the internal IT colleagues. They have day-to-day with the suppliers and will conduct monthly and quarterly business reviews.

Here's what your day-to-day will look like in this role:

Designing, managing, and executing new IT procurement category plans and project plans for individual initiatives, evaluating processes, and identifying risks and issues to ensure contracts are delivered on time and within budget, with improved benefits and savings.
Conducting profound research into the IT spend category and identifying how savings and sustainable margin
improvement can be created.
Establishing and managing suppliers' commercial bid process, negotiating terms and conditions, assessing risks, and
implementing suitable strategies to mitigate exposure.
In conjunction with IT and business functional leaders, leading sourcing projects, both strategic and tactical,
including but not limited to requests for information (RFIs), requests for quotations (RFQs), requests for proposals

(RFPs), and other commercial information required
Developing solid relationships with internal stakeholders and key decision-makers to influence behaviours and
ensure the appropriate and timely involvement of Procurement in all sourcing activities, e.g., Influencing,

challenging, and jointly developing strategic sourcing strategies
Working within the governance model, ensuring procurement methodologies and standards are maintained,
appropriate, and complied with, and risks are appropriately managed.

What you bring

Minimum 5+ years of experience in an IT Procurement related role with competence and a proven ability to build and execute category strategies.
Ability to structure RFPs, execute and evaluate RFPs against a broad set of evaluation criteria and provide recommendations for vendor selection. Experience with larger, more complex RFPs is desirable.
Have a successful track record of delivering significant cost savings and broader commercial benefits throughout the deal-making process.
Product knowledge including Hardware, Software, Storage, Telecoms, Professional Services, and Maintenance.
Holds or working towards a Professional Membership of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) or working towards a business degree or equivalent.
Results-driven and highly customer-focused; concerned with meeting, and exceeding, customer expectations.

You are someone who:

Is flexible, adaptable, and prepared to take on new challenges
Can develop trust with key stakeholders, peers and your team
Communicates in a structured way and has ability to present ideas in simple way
Has drive for results, solution focused thinking and is keen to take accountability and ownership for delivering customer needs.
Demonstrates initiative and proactiveness and has flexibility adjusting your approach when necessary.
Has good planning and process management skills (scopes the length and difficulty of tasks; sets objectives and goals; breaks down work into process steps)

Has perseverance in the face of obstacles
Displays a team spirit, particularly in a multicultural environment and ability to work both independently and as part of a team with colleagues in person and around the world.
Is customer focused and driven to achieve excellent customer service.

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About us

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry's future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Be a part of

Lloyd's Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd's Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd's Register colleagues and Lloyd's Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place.

Want to apply.

Here at Lloyd's Register, we care, we share and we do the right thing in every situation. It's ingrained in our culture and everything we do. We are committed, and continually strive, to lead with our values that empower and enable an inclusive environment conducive to your growth, development and engagement. It doesn't matter who you are, what you have experienced, how you identify, how old you are, where you are from, what your beliefs are or how your brain or body works - the diversity of our colleagues is fundamental to our futures and the changes we can make together. Our inclusive culture allows us to connect together authentically and to be courageous and bold. We don't just talk about our differences, we celebrate them!

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you.

If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy.

We care, we share, we do the right thing.

If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at careers@lr.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd's Register:

Together we are one Lloyd's Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
communicating and promoting vacancies offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

Find out more about Disability Confident at: www.gov.uk/disability-confident

The Lloyd's Register Group comprises charities and non-charitable companies, with the latter supporting the charities in their main goal of enhancing the safety of life and property, at sea, on land and in the air - for the benefit of the public and the environment. (Group entities).

IS Category Manager

IS Category Manager

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