IT Supplier Relationship Manager

Job Description

About the RoleThe Supplier Relationship Manager will drive innovation and actively collaborate with suppliers, allowing the organisation to benefit from their expertise and adapt quickly to changing business requirements. The Supplier Relationship Manager will work alongsidetechnical supplier business owners within Digital and Technology (D&T) and closely with the Group’s centralised Procurement & Supplier Management function ensuring policy and standards are adopted within D&T.They will develop strategic partnerships with our strategic and critical suppliers, ensuring that their performance meets our business and commercial needs, ensuring that we benefit from the supplier’s product roadmaps, and that the horizon and emergingtechnologies can be fed into Enterprise Architecture to help inform organisational forward plans.About YouWith strong relationship management, negotiating, and supplier governance skills, you will have good commercial and business acumen. Having sound technical knowledge, you will have experience of technology environments and ability to understand a range oftechnology systems.We are looking for a strong team player who has an ability to work under pressure, with sound analysis and problem-solving skills. Your strong influencing and stakeholder management skills will enable you to build excellent working relationships throughexceptional interpersonal and communication skills to effectively manage relationships with diverse stakeholder groups.You will be analytical and data-driven in your approach and be good at working with stakeholders, whether within the immediate team, internal D&T teams, Procurement and Supplier Management or suppliers.It is essential you have an adept understanding of Procurement and Supplier Management, particularly within the Information Technology realm, proficient in comprehending the value of well-structured supplier contracts and their impact on achieving businessobjectives.About UsNewcastle Strategic Solutions is the UK’s leading savings management platform and one of the North East’s most established and successful FinTechs! We provide savings management and technology services for new challenger banks and established providers acrossthe UK. Our work has earned us an enviable reputation in the market as the best at what we do.As part of Newcastle Building Society you will be working in an exciting, friendly and fast-paced workplace, with amazing opportunities for self-development and career progression where you can realise your potential and do your best work.As an inclusive employer and a member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the communities we serve in order to drive the right colleague, customer and business outcomes. We encourage applications from candidates from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences,providing the diversity of thought required to constructively challenge and drive innovation.As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:

• A 35-hour weekly contract + flexible working options
• 30 days holiday each year plus bank holidays
• Bonus scheme
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance and income protection
• Access to a range of wellbeing benefits
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Above statutory family leave entitlement
• The option to buy extra holidays
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• A broad range of learning and development opportunities
• Hybrid working - we welcome any discussions around where, how and when people work including part-time hours.

Upon starting a new role with us, we will ensure you are equipped with the correct tools and technologies to enable you to do your best work within your hybrid arrangement.