Lead Specialist, Procurement

**Job Title:** Lead Specialist, Procurement
**Description:** In this role, you will be responsible for software sourcing and contracting strategy. This role aligns with industry titles such as Software Procurement category Leader or Software Licencing Manager
Summary Description
In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, software category leadership is crucial to align an enterprise strategy for software procurement, to cover sourcing, partner management, tiering and license contracting. Additionally, a software category leader is important to ensure that organizations effectively leverage external software technology partnerships to optimize the enterprise software, achieve strategic goals, maximize value, drive innovation, and mitigate risk.
Scope
This role is responsible for the software sourcing and contracting strategy, across both center enterprise technology teams and Pearson business unit divisions. The role is also responsible for the management of act...