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Job title: IT Procurement VP - Cloud
Location: London/Hybrid
Duration: until 31st March 2026
Adecco is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.
The role:
The candidate will be responsible in supporting the execution of Procurement tasks for a large-scale project within our EMEA region.
Responsibilities:
IT supplier vendor selection and commercial negotiations
IT supplier contract finalisation in partnership with legal
Develop IT supplier consolidation towards target preferred supplier list determination
Analyse IT spend, identify cost saving opportunities to optimise cloud utilisation
Ensure cloud and AI and other non-core third party contractual clauses are included in respective contacts and oversee any required remediation
Support tracking of IT contract metrics including cost savings
Develop oversight and governance for key IT suppliers
Ensure optimisation of IT resources in particular Cloud services, AI and other IT strategic initiatives.
Collaborate with Technical teams to implement best practices
Act as a procurement business partner, build and maintain strong relationships and credibility with the business.
Maintain and build strong mutual beneficial relationship with key strategic suppliers.
Lead the delivery of sourcing projects and savings, including the responsibility for driving incremental IT savings through, and in partnership with external service providers.
Work closely with the Legal Department to ensure contracts are finalised appropriately.
Ensure category performance and project data (savings, pipeline, milestones, risks, issues, compliance) is accurate and report to line management and appropriate governance forums.
Requirements:
Experience in IT Procurement, with a deep understanding of AI, Cloud platforms and SaaS.
Expertise in IT cost optimisation.
Proven track record of managing IT spend and negotiation of contracts with major AI, Cloud and SaaS vendors
Initiative-taking and organised with excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload to deliver within set time frames to the highest quality.
Strong business awareness, researching, investigating and problem solving.
Demonstrable experience in governance and spend control in the banking industry necessary.
Strong analytical capabilities and critical thinking skills; ability to translate data into decision making.
Familiarity with procurement tools
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
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