ITT Sourcing Category Manager, Strategic Sourcing, Dublin.

ITT Sourcing Category Manager, Strategic Sourcing, Dublin

Role: ITT Sourcing Category Manager, Strategic Sourcing Location: Central Park, Dublin 18 / Hybrid This role is being offered on a Permanent basis. About the Role: The financial services sector is highly regulated and risk sensitive. Building a Supply Chain to meet these demands in a volatile and uncertain world is a challenging and exciting undertaking. We aspire to be a leading technology Sourcing organisation that connects people to ideas. Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain Management is a core specialist department within Operations Business Services, providing bank-wide focus and leadership, through the provision of professional procurement services to market leading standards, directly through internal resources and through external partnerships. Strategic Sourcing provides services across all AIB geographies, including the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, UK and US. Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building category strategy to ensure operational efficiencies.
• Establish a strong network and foster collaboration with suppliers, key stakeholders, and team members.
• Ensure that all expenditure is sourced and managed in accordance with appropriate governance and policies.
• Supervise, plan, manage and assume complete responsibility for all activities and processes associated with the categories assigned.
• Adapt to and understand technical solutions to problem solving, with the ability to articulate technology and service trends in terms business leaders will understand.
• Be an effective change agent, project managing multiple sourcing initiatives and able to cope with simultaneous demands from different areas and levels of the business and stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with operational users, functional specialists and senior stakeholders to fully understand and help shape business and commercial requirements.
• Demonstrate strong commercial acumen with major suppliers engaged across multiple business units and where relevant a nominated AIB accountable executive.
• Reduce cost and add value to existing or future technology solutions by a robust application of sourcing and supplier development methodologies: sourcing strategy definition, demand & options challenge, optimising specification, joint process improvement, financial analysis, negotiation and contract due diligence.
• Develop and maintain expert knowledge of respective global supply markets, competitors and product innovations.

What You Will Bring:

• Five+ years’ experience in procurement, sourcing or related field delivering similar job outcomes.
• Experience leading key technology negotiations.
• Strong ability to translate stakeholder requirements into technology sourcing practices for favourable business outcomes.
• Excellent influencing/negotiation skills, ability to engage with and influence senior stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of industry and category trends and how they can translate into business value.
• Ability to develop business cases, presentations and stakeholder communications.
• Strong leadership, people management, verbal and written communication, organisational and planning skills.
• Degree level or qualified by experience. Relevant sourcing qualification CPSM/CIPS desirable.

Life at AIB: At AIB, we have a clear purpose - Empowering people to build a sustainable future. We want to be at the heart of our customers’ financial lives by giving them an exceptional experience. That goes for our employees too. We are building a culture that breaks the conventions of what our customers and employees expect of a bank. We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live. Our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements. AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We celebrate diversity and believe in a culture of inclusion where all our employees can succeed. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. If you feel you have what it takes, click apply and fill in the online application form. If you would like more information, please contact the Talent Acquisition Team at careers@aib.ie. By when? Closing date is Wednesday the 12th of February 2025. Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners. #J-18808-Ljbffr