Senior IT Sourcing & Efficiency Lead - Freelance

Context

A leading European logistics and postal group is transforming its digital landscape. Within Group Digital, the Group Value Delivery Office owns the group’s Digital and IT investment and value delivery system: IT budget and portfolio governance, stage-gate investment decisions, efficiency management, strategic sourcing and partner governance, and performance and value assurance. The office works closely with the Group Chief Digital Officer, Group CFO and Finance, business leadership, the CIOs and CDOs of group entities, and Technical Capability Leads.

Missions

• Support the preparation and running of a multi-tower / strategic partner IT RFP: sourcing strategy, scope definition per tower, service and operating model, and commercial model.

• Build and consolidate the RFP dossier: requirements, service levels and KPIs, baseline volumes and costs, pricing templates, transition and exit requirements, and contractual input.

• Coordinate input from IT domain leads, architecture, security, Finance, Legal and Procurement, and keep the RFP plan and timeline on track.

• Set up and run the evaluation: evaluation criteria and weighting, supplier Q&A, clarification sessions, scoring, total cost of ownership and business case comparison.

• Prepare recommendations, negotiation input and decision material for executive governance.

• Identify and manage sourcing risks, including continuity, transition, dependency on suppliers and financial exposure.

• Contribute to the IT efficiency exercise by structuring the savings levers (e.g., supplier and contract rationalisation, licence optimisation, demand management, application and infrastructure rationalisation, location and sourcing strategy).

• Establish a credible IT cost baseline together with Finance and quantify savings per lever, with clear assumptions, owners and timing.

• Turn the efficiency ideas into an actionable plan with named owners, milestones and KPIs, and align it with the budget and the RFP outcomes.

• Set up tracking of realised savings against targets and report progress, deviations and corrective actions to the Director and executive stakeholders.

• Act as the day-to-day driver of the RFP and efficiency work towards IT leadership, Finance, Procurement and suppliers.

• Translate sourcing and cost analyses into clear options, trade-offs and recommendations for decision.