Technology Sourcing Manager

Technology Sourcing Manager – Barclays. The role leads end‑to‑end sourcing and commercial delivery across key technology sub‑categories, focusing on Enterprise Software, Business Platforms, and Applications. It involves partnering with senior stakeholders across technology, finance, risk, and legal to deliver strategic outcomes through third‑party solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex sourcing programmes from strategy to contract execution, ensuring strong commercial outcomes and compliance.
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert in technology sourcing, providing insights into market trends, supplier positioning, and commercial structures.
• Develop and support category strategies, driving continuous improvement in supplier performance and value delivery.
• Profile spend in category areas, analyze business strategy and costs, collaborate with stakeholders to identify sourcing needs and align sourcing activities to business priorities.
• Plan, execute and optimise sourcing events (RFP/RFX), negotiations, compliance, regulatory engagement, and audit requirements.
• Develop, implement and enforce sourcing policies, procedures and governance frameworks.
• Identify and implement change initiatives to improve effectiveness, control and efficiency of sourcing processes, including buy‑channel optimisation.
• Maintain industry knowledge through conferences, training and market research.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to strategy, drive requirements and recommend changes; plan resources, budgets, policies and manage processes.
• In leadership roles, define roles, plan departmental needs, coach staff and drive performance; or as an individual contributor, lead technical direction, guide assignments, and mentor specialists.
• Advise stakeholders on functional and cross‑functional impact, manage and mitigate risks, and strengthen controls.
• Demonstrate strong analytical thinking and problem‑solving to produce innovative solutions.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in technology sourcing, including complex deals across software, cloud or platform services.
• Strong capability in end‑to‑end sourcing lifecycles (RFI/RFP, negotiation, contracting).
• Experience managing multiple concurrent sourcing programmes and balancing competing priorities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication, influencing senior stakeholders.
• Sound knowledge of commercial constructs, contractual terms, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience developing category strategies, demand aggregation, supplier optimisation.
• Experience in regulated or financial services environments; global/multinational experience.
• Awareness of third‑party risk management and procurement governance frameworks.

The role can be based in Knutsford or Glasgow.

All colleagues will demonstrate the Barclays values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship) and embrace the Barclays mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive).

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