ICT Suppliers Analyst

Role: ICT Supplier and Contracts Analyst

Location: Hybrid - Wakefield 2 days per week plus WFH

Salary: £38,750 + a comprehensive range of Employee Benefits, (including 13.5% Pension, wide range of travel and shopping discounts)

Key Skills: ICT Supplier Analyst experience, supplier contract negotiation skills, Supplier performance review experience, managing supplier KPI's, CIPS qualified or equivalent

Why Apply: These roles join a fast-growing commercial team that is part of a large ICT function that is delivering essential services in a high-profile organisation. If you are used to managing IT suppliers and driving cost savings and are naturally a problem solver and great communicator with lots of initiative, then this would be a great role to apply to!

Our Client: This is a great time to join our client, they are a large Public Sector body providing critical services at a local level and they have exciting technology plans in the pipeline providing opportunity for all IT team members to get access to learning.

The Role:

• To manage ICT suppliers to provide a centralised and consistent database of suppliers and contracts. Regularly liaising with and meeting supplier contacts and relevant stakeholders.
• Update, manage and review the supplier and contract databases.
• Analyse the supplier and contract databases to provide Senior Leadership Team with data to drive effective decision making.
• Monitoring Supplier spend against budget to obtain best value.
• Undertake ICT asset management functions to support the effective use of assets throughout the organisation.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

Essential:

• 2+ years' experience gained in a similar role, managing ICT suppliers and contracts.
• Be able to demonstrate experience of proactively driving cost efficiencies with ICT suppliers.
• Either CIPS qualified or with the relevant supplier and contract management experience.
• Experience of using KPI's and/or SLA's drime improved supplier performance.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to liaise confidently across the team
• Strong MS Office skills.
• 5+ years UK residency, (with no extended periods outside of the UK), in order to meet the necessary level of security vetting required.

You will need to be able to demonstrate that you have lived and worked in the UK for the last 5 years in order to meet the security vetting required for this role