We are seeking an experienced Senior Procurement Manager, IT to lead complex sourcing and supplier management across key areas of IT spend, including software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, data centres, hardware, systems integrators, and managed services.
This Senior Manager role sits within the Indirect Procurement organisation, supporting the delivery of commercially robust, scalable, and resilient technology solutions. The role will partner closely with IT stakeholders to shape requirements, optimise spend, and manage strategic supplier relationships that enable digital transformation and operational continuity.
You will be expected to operate as a hands-on category leader, balancing strategic category planning with strong execution across sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier performance, and risk management.
Strategic Impact
Develop and execute category strategies across assigned IT procurement areas, aligned to enterprise technology priorities and business requirements.
Translate technology demand into clear sourcing plans, ensuring procurement activity supports innovation, cost discipline, scalability, and service resilience.
Monitor market trends across software licensing, cloud consumption, infrastructure, cyber, digital services, and emerging technology categories to inform sourcing strategy.
Drive change management and support procurement transformation initiatives, including process improvement, digitalisation, automation, and improved governance.
Sourcing & Commercial Delivery
Lead complex sourcing events across software, cloud, infrastructure, hardware, systems integration, professional services, and managed service providers.
Deliver strong commercial outcomes through negotiation, cost modelling, benchmarking, contract structuring, and demand management.
Partner with stakeholders to challenge requirements, consolidate demand, optimise licensing or consumption models, and reduce avoidable spend.
Build robust commercial cases that support supplier selection, renewal decisions, contract extensions, and strategic sourcing recommendations.
Ensure sourcing activity is delivered with pace, transparency, and clear alignment to business priorities.
Stakeholder & Supplier Leadership
Partner with IT, Finance, Legal, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, and business stakeholders to align procurement activity with operational and strategic needs.
Act as a trusted commercial advisor to senior stakeholders, providing market insight, supplier intelligence, and practical recommendations.
Manage strategic relationships with key technology suppliers, including major software providers, cloud platforms, infrastructure vendors, hardware suppliers, and global systems integrators.
Lead supplier performance reviews, commercial escalations, and continuous improvement discussions to ensure value, service quality, and accountability.
Commercial & Operational Excellence
Embed data-led procurement practices through spend analysis, usage reviews, contract compliance, benchmarking, and value tracking.
Identify opportunities to simplify supplier landscapes, improve contract governance, and strengthen procurement controls.
Support the adoption of procurement tools, reporting, and repeatable processes to improve efficiency and visibility across the category.
Maintain clear documentation of sourcing decisions, commercial rationale, supplier performance, and realised benefits.
Risk & Compliance
Ensure IT suppliers meet relevant cybersecurity, data protection, regulatory, ethical, and contractual requirements.
Work closely with Legal, Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Risk teams to identify, assess, and mitigate supplier and contract risks.
Manage key commercial, operational, and continuity risks across critical IT services and vendor dependencies.
Promote responsible sourcing, ethical conduct, and compliance with procurement policies and approval frameworks.
Team & Capability Building
Provide guidance and support to procurement colleagues involved in IT sourcing or supplier management activity.
Share market insight, category knowledge, negotiation approaches, and best practice across the wider procurement team.
Contribute to a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and strong commercial discipline.
Significant experience in indirect procurement, with strong exposure to IT procurement in a complex, global organisation.
Deep knowledge of software licensing, SaaS, cloud commercial models, infrastructure, hardware, managed services, and technology supplier ecosystems.
Strong commercial acumen with proven experience in negotiation, contract structuring, cost optimisation, supplier management, and value delivery.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders, challenge demand constructively, and operate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong analytical capability, including spend analysis, benchmarking, cost modelling, usage optimisation, and business case development.
Confident working in a fast-paced, changing environment with competing priorities and complex stakeholder requirements.
Strategic and operational excellence: translates strategy into action, ensuring rigour, consistency, and execution throughout the source-to-contract cycle and supplier engagement.
Benefits
Dyson monitors the market to ensure competitive salaries and bonuses. Beyond that, you’ll enjoy a transport allowance and comprehensive medical care and insurance. But financial benefits are just the start of a Dyson career. Professional growth, leadership development and new opportunities abound, driven by regular reviews and dynamic workshops. And with a vibrant culture, the latest devices and a relaxed dress code reflecting our engineering spirit, it’s an exciting team environment geared to fuelling and realising ambition.
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Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
Skills Required
- Significant experience in indirect procurement and IT procurement in a complex, global organisation
- Deep knowledge of software licensing, SaaS and cloud commercial models, infrastructure, hardware, and managed services
- Proven negotiation, contract structuring, cost optimisation, and supplier management experience
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate across technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong analytical capability including spend analysis, benchmarking, cost modelling, usage optimisation, and business case development
- Experience leading complex sourcing events across software, cloud, infrastructure, hardware, systems integration, and managed services
- Experience managing strategic supplier relationships and supplier performance reviews
- Familiarity with cybersecurity, data privacy, regulatory and contractual risk assessment for IT suppliers
- Experience driving procurement transformation, process improvement, digitalisation or automation initiatives
- Capability to build commercial cases, benchmarking, and realise measurable procurement benefits
Dyson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dyson and has not been reviewed or approved by Dyson.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision offerings are broad, paired with company‑paid life and disability coverage, plus EAP, backup care, and wellness incentives. Employer‑funded healthcare dollars and premium‑discount or Lifestyle Spending Account options further enhance coverage value.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is consistently advertised on U.S. postings. This provides predictable retirement support across roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs, commuter benefits, and notable product discounts supplement core coverage. Wellness incentives and a Lifestyle Spending Account expand lifestyle support beyond medical plans.
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What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
