Description

The IT Sourcing Strategy Advisor is a senior trusted advisor on IT sourcing strategy, combining deep market intelligence, category expertise and hands-on RFx leadership to guide sourcing decisions across the IT/AMS portfolio. The role bridges strategic advisory and sourcing execution — bringing an external market perspective into sourcing strategy while personally leading complex, high-value competitive bid processes and vendor negotiations.
The Advisor operates as a challenging, credible partner to Technology, Business and Finance stakeholders — shaping sourcing strategy ahead of demand, rather than simply executing pre-defined requirements — and works as part of the VMO's team functions to ensure sourcing decisions are evidence-based, commercially sound and aligned to enterprise objectives.

Responsibilities

1.1 Sourcing Strategy Management

- Develop and own IT category sourcing strategies across major technology domains — cloud, infrastructure, application management services (AMS), DevOps, Licensing, etc. — aligned to business and financial goals.

- Maintain an in-depth, current understanding of the market for categories under management, including vendor landscape, pricing trends, delivery models and emerging technology/innovation.

- Identify and drive cost-optimisation and value-creation opportunities — rationalisation, consolidation, and benchmarking-led savings — across the sourcing pipeline.

1.2 Business Case & Leadership Advisory

- Lead development of business cases supporting sourcing, tiering and consolidation decisions across IT portfolio.

- Provide leadership advisory support directly to the Steering Committee on strategic vendor and portfolio decisions.

- Translate advisory group output into concise, decision-ready recommendations for senior stakeholders.





- Facilitate business alignment sessions and executive briefings on procurement strategy and sourcing initiatives.

- Constructively challenge stakeholder requirements against market best practice to ensure the organization pursues optimal, well-informed sourcing decisions.

1.3 Market Intelligence & Benchmarking

- Own and continuously refresh market intelligence on IT vendors, delivery models, technologies and pricing trends relevant to the program's topics.

- Direct structured benchmarking sprints comparing incumbent and prospective Tier 1 vendors on rate cards, SLA scope and delivery quality.

- Maintain a benchmarking evidence base to support sourcing and renewal/exit decisions.

1.4 Team Management

- Manage, prioritise and quality-assure the output of the external Sourcing Advisory Group.

- Set research standards and review cadence for market intelligence and benchmarking deliverables.

Qualifications

- 10+ years in IT sourcing, vendor advisory or strategy consulting, ideally with direct exposure to benchmarking and business-case development.

- Post-Graduate degree in Business Administration, Finance, Supply Chain or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

- Proven experience advising senior/executive stakeholders on vendor and sourcing strategy.

- Strong analytical and market-research capability, with the ability to synthesize complex vendor/market data into clear recommendations.

- Experience managing a portfolio of strategic sourcing initiatives alongside tactical sourcing activities, while leading and coordinating external advisory and T&M; teams to deliver business objectives.

- Consulting-based advisory experience preferred.

KEY SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

- Strategic and analytical thinking, comfortable operating with incomplete market data.

- Solid written and verbal communication for executive-level advisory output.

- Structured research and benchmarking methodology.

- People leadership for a small, specialist analyst team.

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