Fantastic new senior level opportunity to join Aviva as a Head of IT Procurement.

The role holder will be tasked with creating sustained value across all IT spend categories, through effective sourcing, supplier rationalisation and proactive commercial management of third party IT spend, whilst managing risk within Aviva’s appetite and protecting service.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Aviva’s sustainability agenda across the IT supply chain to support Aviva’s commitments including net zero

• Drive value through procurement deals, effective supplier management and consolidation of IT spend

• Identify, own and manage the specific key risks and/or key controls that you are identified as the owner for on iCARE.

• Build relationships at a senior level with suppliers to help drive value and ensure that strategies and plans reflect and deliver needs of internal partners

• Align with a Group IT Function and support major change initiatives

• Support the Procurement Director in delivering commercial thought leadership across the business

• Develop and implement the IT Procurement Strategy agreed with Procurement Director and other key partners including Group CIO

• Build and maintain effective relationships with IT suppliers to drive strategic value beyond pricing and ensure their goals are aligned with Aviva objectives, ensuring alignment of contract/commercial targets with Aviva performance objectives

• Drive a simplification agenda across the Group business in the procurement of IT goods and services

Skills

• Commercial savvy

• In-depth understanding of the IT Supplier market

• Mentally agile and decisive, good numerical understanding and sound commercial judgement

• Persuasive and articulate, able to influence and negotiate at senior/exec level

• Excellent track record in Sourcing, Contract, Commercial and Supplier Management

• Proven ability in building and leading impactful team

• Demonstrable skills and capability to operate at Exec/SLT level

• Substantial proven commercial capability in running large organisations to budget

• Experience in Financial Services and relevant outsourcing and third-party regulations

What you will get

• Competitive salary depending on location, skills and prior experience

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of up to 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow!

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take responsibility, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Ben Parker a call on 07833 239394 or send an email to ben.parker@aviva.com

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.