Commercial Manager, ICT Procurement

1 day ago


Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Transpower New Zealand Full time

Responsibilities:

The Senior Category Manager - IST will be responsible for executing technology sourcing and commercial management activity for Transpower's current and future business needs. This includes:

Supplier Relationship Management:

  • Evaluate and analyse supplier markets
  • Document research and provide supply chain expertise

Procurement Strategy Development:

  • Develop procurement strategies, including market analysis, sourcing models, reporting, and supplier relationships
  • Manage multi-year category plans to generate value, deliver service excellence, and optimise diversity spending

Sales Support:

  • Support senior management in strategic planning and decision-making

Team Collaboration:

  • Lead cross-functional teams through strategic sourcing processes, developing and executing negotiation strategies, and providing regular reporting on savings, initiatives, potential opportunities, risks, and challenges

Performance Measurement:

  • Measure, monitor, and analyse overall performance of suppliers

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  • Proven experience in IT category management at a senior level
  • Effective communication skills and ability to engage and build internal and external relationships
  • Ability to advocate and influence with well-developed commercial acumen
  • Strong negotiation skills, analytical, and critical thinking with ability to extract, analyse, and use data to create business cases and executive-level presentations
  • Relevant qualifications (Business, Commerce, Law) and/or equivalent experience, demonstrating a strong understanding of procurement principles, including Sourcing, Category, and Demand Management, with the ability to apply these principles through a service delivery lens
  • 7+ years of commercial/procurement experience in IST, including software, hardware, and related services
  • Knowledge of broad range of ICT products and services, as well as commercial models underpinning them
  • Experience working with software licensing, hardware, managed services, Cloud, IST contracts, SLAs


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