Assistant Manager, Technology Procurement Aberdeen, Scotland
Job description
Connect to your Industry
Global CoRe provides seven fundamental services to Deloitte around the world: knowledge services, creative services, contact center, data management assessment services, data protection, procurement, and real estate. We develop new and innovative ways to improve how these services are delivered across the organization, leveraging our global scope and strength to serve our organization within and across borders.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
- Do you have extensive Technology sourcing expertise?
- Are you experienced in interpreting procurement strategies and turning them into successful sourcing exercises?
- Can you execute all phases of strategic sourcing projects from initiation through to contract signature?
- Are you a collaborative professional who thrives in a fast-paced, team focused organization?
Global CoRe Procurement is seeking a new addition to our Technology Procurement team. CoRe Technology Procurement are responsible for the full spectrum of technology solutions including hardware, software, services and knowledge management/data and external content tools. We are looking for someone who is able to work effectively with category managers to interpret their plans and execute sourcing activities that support category strategies.
You’ll be responsible for advising internal clients in the Global organization on the progress of sourcing activities, delivering local, regional and global sourcing projects in accordance with Deloitte’s Global sourcing methodology, conducting comparative analyses to empower decision making and leading, or supporting, commercial terms negotiations as required within each project.
In addition, you will provide a point of contact for stakeholder in our Irish geography, becoming an important conduit between local Irish requirements and global opportunities.
You must possess strong commercial and communication skills, and excellent relationship engagement and management capabilities in order to manage client expectations and challenging supplier interactions. You will also be responsible for ensuring that related sourcing activities are performed efficiently, effectively, and results are in line with business plans and operating budgets.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
- Proven experience in technology procurement/strategic sourcing roles
- Demonstrated achievements in negotiations and managing complex sourcing transactions
- Strong administrative, project management and analytical skills
- Strategic and business focused in order to maximize opportunities for our internal clients and business units
- Experience building and leveraging strong business relationships with internal clients as well as external networking
- Excellent interpersonal and client service skills
- Proven organizational and strong communications skills
- Demonstrated accomplishments in negotiations and managing complex sourcing transactions
- Ability to prioritize, multi-task and deliver results in a deadline driven working environment
- Self-starter, independent, proactive and strategic in identifying opportunities with our internal clients and business units with respect to procurement
- Hands on experience with sourcing technologies (particularly Ariba), contract management systems is an asset
- Completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in business or equivalent, contract law or related discipline
Connect to your business – Enabling Functions
Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
"Everyone at Deloitte builds relationships with their peers and puts in effort to get to know one another, making the work more enjoyable."
Connect to your agile working options
Location: UK Wide
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working
You’ll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you’ll be part of the Deloitte Global team. You’ll spend most of your time working from home like all of your Global colleagues in the Enabling Functions, or in a local collaboration space when needed. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon. The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way by enabling flexibility for our people and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
Discover more about our locations.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
WPFULL SLICSS LOCOFFICE
GLO24
