Senior Procurement Category Manager – Infrastructure IT
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Sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment is changing, and we’re leading that change. By putting people first. By placing exciting, engaging and entertaining experiences at more fingertips than ever before. We're pulling into pole position by pushing boundaries further. With innovation. With technology. But most importantly, with people like you. Because when you join Entain, it’s your game. So let’s win together.
Entain are looking for a Senior Procurement Category Manager – Infrastructure / IT, to join its growing global business.
Reporting to the Head of IT Procurement, the key purpose of this role is to optimise 3rd party spend on IT expenditure across Entain, through the delivery of the identified integration benefit and creation of short/mid/long-term value optimisation strategies aligned to the objectives of the business.
IT experience in Infrastructure On Prem, Cloud and Databases is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
Sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment is changing, and we’re leading that change. By putting people first. By placing exciting, engaging and entertaining experiences at more fingertips than ever before. We're pulling into pole position by pushing boundaries further. With innovation. With technology. But most importantly, with people like you. Because when you join Entain, it’s your game. So let’s win together.
Entain are looking for a Senior Procurement Category Manager – Infrastructure / IT, to join its growing global business.
Reporting to the Head of IT Procurement, the key purpose of this role is to optimise 3rd party spend on IT expenditure across Entain, through the delivery of the identified integration benefit and creation of short/mid/long-term value optimisation strategies aligned to the objectives of the business.
IT experience in Infrastructure On Prem, Cloud and Databases is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage IT community to understand business strategies
- Develop medium and long term IT Strategies, ensuring commercial tension across all areas of spend
- Build a cutting-edge knowledge of the supply base, providing informed insights to the IT community
- Using stakeholder and supplier networks, identify continuous improvement and step-change opportunities to product and service specifications
- Identification of revenue improvement opportunities
- Own and embody the team’s values, including the promotion and embedding within the team
- Understand and ensure the implementation of all IT Integration benefits through both personal delivery and matrix engagement with the IT teams
- Financial reporting of cost improvement on a P&L basis, interpreting CAPEX, OPEX, depreciation and cash flow
- Optimise buying channels, to ensure efficient transactional procurement
- Understand critical areas for Innovation and build a pipeline of opportunities to be shared with the supplier community
- Identification of global synergies
- Creation of global IT commercial strategy identifying all sources of benefit short/mid and long term
Qualifications
Specialist Skills and Experience Required
- Exceptional commercial experience (including strategy creation, implementation and benefit delivery)
- Building of IT strategies
- TCO modelling to define optimal cost structures
- Excellent people and influencing skills across all levels of the organisation
- Highly organised
- Self-motivated and can-do attitude
At Entain, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning.
Based in our London Stratford office, you can expect to receive benefits like:
- Generous group bonus scheme
- Hybrid-working
- Private medical insurance
- Pension Scheme - matched to 6%
- Ability to buy and sell holiday
- Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
- Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
- Sharesave Scheme
- Paid Subscription to LinkedIn learning
We comply with all applicable recruitment regulation
s and employment laws in the jurisdictions where we operate, ensuring ethical and compliant hiring practices globally.
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