IT Sourcing Manager

IT Sourcing Manager

Locations: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Halifax, Leeds (Hybrid Location).

Contract: 6 months, full-time (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm), hybrid.

Salary: £75,000 per annum (DOE) or day rate via umbrella company available.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver outcomes for a portfolio of IT sourcing projects and contracts, including renewals and new supplier engagements.
• Lead end-to-end sourcing activity, covering requirements definition, market engagement, commercial negotiation, contract award, and transition.
• Negotiate contracts and service level agreements to achieve value, manage risk, and meet business objectives.
• Analyse data from multiple sources to identify commercial, operational, and risk impacts, providing clear recommendations to stakeholders.
• Manage supplier relationships to ensure performance, value for money, and alignment with contractual obligations.
• Support senior stakeholders with sourcing strategy, pipeline planning, and workload prioritisation.
• Deliver outcomes within established procurement, governance, and risk management frameworks.
• Identify and resolve sourcing and supplier issues, applying sound judgement and pragmatic solutions.
• Improve and work within existing sourcing processes, contributing ideas for enhanced ways of working.
• Manage and coordinate multiple concurrent sourcing activities of low to medium complexity.
• Provide advice and guidance to stakeholders on sourcing best practice and supplier strategy.
• Support wider team capability by sharing knowledge and mentoring colleagues where appropriate.

Stakeholder & Relationship Management

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal stakeholders across IT and the wider business.
• Engage confidently with suppliers, holding credible commercial and technical conversations.
• Support senior colleagues in managing complex or sensitive supplier and stakeholder relationships.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in IT sourcing or procurement, with full lifecycle exposure.
• Experience working in large, complex organisations with strong governance and regulatory requirements.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience negotiating contracts and managing suppliers.
• Ability to manage a varied workload, including reactive and ad‑hoc sourcing requests.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and assess risk.
• Experience using eSourcing and procurement systems (e.g., SAP Ariba).
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Personal Attributes

• Pragmatic and solution-focused.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, changeable environment.
• Confident decision-maker with strong attention to detail.
• Collaborative and proactive team player.

Benefits

• Regular salary, annual bonus, pension contributions.
• Holiday and sick pay.
• Medical insurance, income protection, critical illness and life insurance.
• Access to discounted benefits website and library of online training materials.
• Future career and certification opportunities.

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