Director of IT Procurement & Commercial
Director - IT Procurement & Commercial
Drive Commercial Excellence. Enable Technology Change. Influence at Executive Level.
We are seeking an accomplished procurement leader to take ownership of IT procurement and commercial strategy during a period of significant technological evolution.
This role offers the opportunity to shape how technology partnerships are sourced, governed, and optimised.
Operating as a senior member of the leadership community, you will embed robust commercial frameworks that support transformation, strengthen supplier performance, and ensure long-term value delivery.
You will act as a strategic partner to technology leadership, ensuring commercial decisions enable innovation, agility, and operational resilience.
The Opportunity
- Define and execute a forward-looking IT procurement strategy aligned to broader business priorities.
- Establish rigorous category management practices that unlock scale benefits and strengthen commercial outcomes.
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and external partners to influence decision-making at the highest level.
- Enhance procurement governance, demand planning, and sourcing pathways to improve efficiency and compliance.
- Provide leadership on high-value, complex negotiations across technology contracts, including risk mitigation and dispute resolution.
- Oversee commercial life cycle management, ensuring contracts deliver against agreed performance, cost, and value objectives.
- Introduce innovative commercial models and best practice approaches that drive continuous improvement.
You are a commercially driven leader with extensive experience operating within complex IT environments. You bring:
- Demonstrable success leading technology procurement and commercial teams at scale.
- Strong expertise in structuring, negotiating, and managing sophisticated technology agreements.
- A strategic mindset, with the ability to translate procurement decisions into measurable business impact.
- Experience building and optimising strategic supplier partnerships.
- Resilience and composure when working within demanding, transformation-led programmes.
- The confidence to challenge conventional approaches and introduce progressive, value-enhancing solutions.
- Executive presence and the ability to influence across senior leadership forums.
This is a career-defining opportunity to shape commercial strategy within a technology function undergoing meaningful change. You will influence enterprise-wide decisions, strengthen strategic supplier ecosystems, and create a procurement function that is agile, insight-led, and commercially astute.