It Category Manager

Description:

Robert Walters is the world's most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.
Our Outsourcing service delivers recruitment for some of the world's top employers, and we are currently recruiting on behalf of a leading London market insurance company.
This leading insurance and reinsurance company operates globally, providing a diverse range of solutions to manage and mitigate risks for commercial enterprises. With a strong presence in the Lloyd's market, as well as in the UK, Continental Europe, and Bermuda, the company specializes in offering comprehensive coverage and reinsurance protection. It is part of a top-10 global non-life insurance group, ensuring robust financial backing and extensive industry expertise.

Your Team and Role
Our leading global insurance client is seeking an experienced IT Category Manager specialising in Applications t on a 12-week contract based in London. This role offers the chance to work within a collaborative and inclusive team, supporting both business services and multiple legal entities across the organisation.

You will play a pivotal part in shaping procurement strategies, driving cost savings, and building commercial frameworks that benefit the wider group.

What you'll do:

• Working with stakeholders to effectively manage IT spend across the company and other Legal Entities, which will involve helping customers to define requirements, researching the supply market, running market exercises to select suppliers, negotiating commercial terms and putting appropriate contracts in place.
• Leading Procurement's involvement in a complex application decommissioning programme. You will be the commercial subject matter expert working closely with IT product owners to form a strategy to exit a number of complex, interrelated licenses and supporting services
• Developing and implementing procurement strategies for your category area, focusing on cost optimisation, supplier management, and risk mitigation.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, communicating complex procurement concepts clearly and effectively.
• Ensuring compliance with industry regulations and internal policies, maintaining high standards of integrity and accountability.
• Fostering strong relationships with suppliers, negotiating favourable terms and ensuring reliable supply chains.

What you bring:

• A track record of delivering IT Procurement projects, with full ownership throughout the process
• The confidence and gravitas to represent Procurement to a senior IT stakeholder group, able to both advise and influence
• A solid understanding of the financial services market
• Experience of working in a complex IT environment that is undergoing significant change
• Have a demonstrable record of delivering value for money and best in class commercial services especially with top tier IT vendors.
• Strong intellectual and analytical abilities

What sets this company apart:
This organisation stands out as a global leader in insurance solutions-renowned for its commitment to excellence across reinsurance, specialty lines, Lloyd's franchise operations, and comprehensive business support services. The culture is built around respect, collaboration, and shared success; everyone is encouraged to contribute ideas regardless of their role or tenure. By joining this team on contract basis you'll gain exposure to cutting-edge projects within one of the world's most respected insurance groups-all while enjoying genuine support from knowledgeable peers who want you to succeed.