We are seeking an experienced Senior Procurement Manager, IT to lead complex sourcing and supplier management across key areas of IT spend, including software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, data centres, hardware, systems integrators, and managed services.
This Senior Manager role sits within the Indirect Procurement organisation, supporting the delivery of commercially robust, scalable, and resilient technology solutions. The role will partner closely with IT stakeholders to shape requirements, optimisespend, and manage strategic supplier relationships that enable digital transformation and operational continuity.
You will be expected to operate as a hands-on category leader, balancing strategic category planning with strong execution across sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier performance, and risk management.
Strategic Impact
Develop and execute category strategies across assigned IT procurement areas, aligned to enterprise technology priorities and business requirements.
Translate technology demand into clear sourcing plans, ensuring procurement activity supports innovation, cost discipline, scalability, and service resilience.
Monitor market trends across software licensing, cloud consumption, infrastructure, cyber, digital services, and emerging technology categories to inform sourcing strategy.
Drive change management and support procurement transformation initiatives, including process improvement, digitalisation, automation, and improved governance.
Sourcing & Commercial Delivery
Lead complex sourcing events across software, cloud, infrastructure, hardware, systems integration, professional services, and managed service providers.
Deliver strong commercial outcomes through negotiation, cost modelling, benchmarking, contract structuring, and demand management.
Partner with stakeholders to challenge requirements, consolidate demand, optimise licensing or consumption models, and reduce avoidable spend
Build robust commercial cases that support supplier selection, renewal decisions, contract extensions, and strategic sourcing recommendations.
Ensure sourcing activity is delivered with pace, transparency, and clear alignment to business priorities.
Stakeholder & Supplier Leadership
Partner with IT, Finance, Legal, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, and business stakeholders to align procurement activity with operational and strategic needs.
Act as a trusted commercial advisor to senior stakeholders, providing market insight, supplier intelligence, and practical recommendations.
Manage strategic relationships with key technology suppliers, including major software providers, cloud platforms, infrastructure vendors, hardware suppliers, and global systems integrators.
Lead supplier performance reviews, commercial escalations, and continuous improvement discussions to ensure value, service quality, and accountability.
Commercial & Operational Excellence
Embed data-led procurement practices through spend analysis, usage reviews, contract compliance, benchmarking, and value tracking.
Identify opportunities to simplify supplier landscapes, improve contract governance, and strengthen procurement controls.
Support the adoption of procurement tools, reporting, and repeatable processes to improve efficiency and visibility across the category.
Maintain clear documentation of sourcing decisions, commercial rationale, supplier performance, and realised benefits.
Risk & Compliance
Ensure IT suppliers meet relevant cybersecurity, data protection, regulatory, ethical, and contractual requirements.
Work closely with Legal, Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Risk teams to identify, assess, and mitigate supplier and contract risks.
Manage key commercial, operational, and continuity risks across critical IT services and vendor dependencies.
Promote responsible sourcing, ethical conduct, and compliance with procurement policies and approval frameworks.
Team & Capability Building
Provide guidance and support to procurement colleagues involved in IT sourcing or supplier management activity
Share market insight, category knowledge, negotiation approaches, and best practice across the wider procurement team.
Contribute to a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and strong commercial discipline.
Significant experience in indirect procurement, with strong exposure to IT procurement in a complex, global organisation
Deep knowledge of software licensing, SaaS, cloud commercial models, infrastructure, hardware, managed services, and technology supplier ecosystems.
Strong commercial acumen with proven experience in negotiation, contract structuring, cost optimisation, supplier management, and value delivery.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders, challenge demand constructively, and operate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong analytical capability, including spend analysis, benchmarking, cost modelling, usage optimisation, and business case development.
Confident working in a fast-paced, changing environment with competing priorities and complex stakeholder requirements.
Strategic and operational excellence:translates strategy into action, ensuring rigour, consistency, and execution throughout the source-to-contract cycle and supplier engagement.
Dyson monitors the market to ensure competitive salaries and bonuses. Beyond that, you’ll enjoy a transport allowance and comprehensive medical care and insurance. But financial benefits are just the start of a Dyson career. Professional growth, leadership development and new opportunities abound, driven by regular reviews and dynamic workshops. And with a vibrant culture, the latest devices and a relaxed dress code reflecting our engineering spirit, it’s an exciting team environment geared to fuelling and realising ambition.
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Dyson solves real-world problems and creates better products through the application of engineering, science, design and creativity. It is a family-owned, global technology company, founded by Sir James Dyson who remains at the helm alongside his son Jake.
Since inventing the first cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner, the DC01, Dyson has consistently invested in research and development to improve its products and technologies radically. Dyson offers products across a growing range of areas: floorcare, air purification, robotics, haircare including formulations, lighting, hand drying, and most recently audio. Dyson continues to expand into new areas.
Today, Dyson sells products in more than 80 markets, has 450 Dyson stores worldwide and is available in all major technology and beauty retailers. Dyson has global headquarters in Singapore and major technology campuses in Singapore, the UK, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Its global team of engineers, scientists and software developers are focused on developing technology-enabled products which work better and which people love to use. Key areas of focus have included high-speed electric digital motors, sensing and vision systems, robotics, machine learning and aerodynamics.
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