Description
Interim Commercial Director
Location: London
Company: Financial Services Organisation
Role Context: This mid-sized FS Company requires an interim Commercial Director
Ideal candidate: Senior Director with CIMA or accountancy background with extensive experience in negotiating IT contracts
Candidate qualities will include:
Essential experience:
- CIMA or Chartered accountant background
- Previous experience in a senior global IT Commercial role
- Global IT sourcing/outsourcing contract negotiations
- Experience of running a Finance function within a large multi-national or complex stakeholder arrangement
- Building effective working relationships with strategic IT partners, trade bodies and professional organisations
- Reporting into Global CIO
- Track-record in identifying cost-savings in IT contracts
Leadership:
- Ownership of IT procurement activities
- Operating at C-suite level
- Gain buy-in from a newly-formed-team
- Commercially-astute with a strategic mind-set