Senior Category Manager - IT (Cloud and Infrastructure)
Scottish and Southern Energy
Overview
In this role you lead the multi-year commercial strategy for SSE’s IT Cloud & Infrastructure portfolio, influencing investment decisions and supplier choices. You’ll partner with senior leaders across Technology, Security, Architecture and Finance to set direction and drive value, resilience and strategic advantage. The role offers scope to shape SSE’s transformation and elevate procurement as a strategic function. You will work across Cloud, Hosting, Compute, Storage and Infrastructure services to deliver measurable outcomes.
Pay / Benefits- Discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships
- Online GP and 24/7 counselling
- Interest-free loans for season tickets or Cycle to Work
- Maternity and adoption pay
- Paternity leave
- Flexible benefits
- Define and execute the multi-year commercial strategy for IT Cloud & Infrastructure aligned to SSE priorities
- Lead complex sourcing and negotiations, creating value-driven commercial models
- Provide commercial counsel to senior stakeholders translating market/tech complexity into investment decisions
- Engage with global technology providers to strengthen relationships and drive performance and innovation
- Translate spend and market intelligence into a pipeline of cost optimisation and risk reduction initiatives
- Maintain executive oversight of portfolio performance and governance with the Head of Procurement for IT & Telco
- Enterprise-scale IT category strategy experience in Cloud, Hosting, Infrastructure or Data Centre
- Proven track record in high-value sourcing and negotiations with major global providers
- Deep expertise in cloud economics and contracting including hyperscaler models and consumption-based pricing
- Ability to shape investment decisions and supplier strategies across complex environments
- Strong grasp of commercial, contractual, operational and risk considerations
- Executive presence with experience influencing senior leaders and presenting evidence-based recommendations
- Decisive, collaborative leadership with ability to mobilise cross-functional teams across Procurement, Technology, Finance, Legal, Security and Architecture
- Executive presence
- Collaborative leadership
- Strategic influencing
- Cloud economics
- Hyperscaler commercial models
- Consumption-based pricing
Reference: WJ-747_31059543