Fantastic new opportunity here at Aviva to carve your career in procurement in a fast paced highly skilled and established team.

If you like the sound and opportunity of working in a fast-paced, FTSE 100 company and want to develop your career and skills then the opportunity here for an IT Category Buyer here is the perfect opportunity for you!

You’ll be working in Aviva Procurement supporting the organisations Customer and Digital First strategies by working across the Aviva Group to understand and translate business needs into commercial requirements.

You will have your own category to manage end to end which includes setting the strategy, negotiating supplier contracts and working with business stakeholders, you will also support other category specific opportunities as they present themselves, making this a great opportunity to upskill and gain exposure in various areas of IT and IT services category management, working on mid to large scale projects for the UK's number one insurer.

Although not crucial a solid understanding of IT Software or IT Outsource Services would be beneficial to the role of IT Category Buyer.

Specifically you will:

• Develop a robust understanding of market dynamics for a range of categories of spend as well as gaining a detailed knowledge of Aviva’s business strategies

• Negotiate new and existing supplier contracts, including pricing and other commercial terms, to deliver savings and manage supply risk

• Establish rapport and communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders across all levels of our business within the UK, Ireland and Canada

• Build beneficial relationships with our suppliers, from innovative technology companies through to niche start-ups

• Gain experience using and embedding market-leading Procurement tools and systems

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Educated to degree level

• Strong communication skills

• Excellent teamwork and ability to establish relationships

• General commercial awareness and business skills

• Financially savvy

• IT Skills – Knowledge of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint

• Comfortable working within a demanding, fast evolving environment

• Involvement in managing supplier relationships and contracts

What you will get

• Salary of between £22,000 and £31,425 depending on location, skills and previous experience

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 25 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.