Sourcing Manager

Surrey  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Sourcing Manager

Our client, a leading Financial Services Firm, are looking to hire a Sourcing Manager.

Purpose of your role

The primary goal of the role is to run and lead a change programme across contingent labour and professional services, to create a best in class globalised programme which optimises use of all forms of non-permanent resourcing. The programme is split in to 3 distinct phases, and the role is expected to lead all aspects:

Phase 1: Development of Business Case

Phase 2: Tendering

Phase 3: Implementation

Your key responsibilities

  • Leading and executing the change programme for management and sourcing non-permanent labour. At the point of completion the project should hand off to category management for 'active' management of single expense line for both supply and demand levers
  • Excellent relationship management and communication skills are required to ensure you are able to become and be seen as a trusted adviser to the senior business stakeholders;
  • Assessing the business' requirements and develop a strategy and delivery model that meets operational needs while supports the firm's overarching strategies to reduce costs and drive efficiencies
  • Leading demand challenge and driving innovation, ie establishing longer range plans, assessing opportunities and leveraging market developments/industry best practises to drive efficiencies and global cost savings;
  • Driving procurement processes and taking responsibility for leading contract and service level agreement (SLA) negotiations. Ensure clear accountabilities, timelines and deliverables are established; and ongoing status routinely communicated to projects teams and stakeholders;
  • Maintaining awareness leveraging opportunities for and with other Procurement teams globally;
  • Keeping internal stakeholders informed of programme activities and progress through collaborative working and pro-active communication. Establishing an engagement process & maintaining awareness with/alerting stakeholders of potential future procurement activity;
  • Maintaining awareness of industry developments and best practises. Keeping abreast of potential new supply arrangements, latest products/services from a procurement perspective to prompt and promote innovation.

Your skills and experience

  • Recent experience of leading a large global change programme across professional services and contingent labour
  • Developing strategies and a robust business cases for executive approval, and then delivering to these plans
  • Strong market knowledge of professional services, contingent labour/HR categories and evidence of utilising that knowledge to make changes to procurement plans and business decisions
  • Experience developing and implementing global category strategies in a multinational company environment.
  • Procurement function leadership skills - extensive experience of leading concurrent procurement initiatives, contract negotiations, and the management of supply relationships in a global services organisation.
  • Achieving results through working with senior business managers and procurement specialists Embedded in regional business functions around the globe.
  • Experience of resolving disputes and commercial contract law concepts and contract term constructs
  • Strong team working skills, and ability to operate across teams, cultural and organisational boundaries
  • Experience of working in an ambiguous environment
  • Ability to multi task and prioritise workload with a strong attention to detail and stakeholder management
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, and ability to articulate ideas and concepts succinctly
  • Business aware and customer focused
  • Strong negotiation, facilitation and procurement leadership skills
  • Demonstrate broad understanding of financial management principles (eg TCO, P&L etc) and other quantitative information to ensure procurement outcomes are both financially and qualitatively sound
  • CIPS or equivalent qualification/experience

Please note: this role can be based in Kingswood or Kent.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Harvey Nash IT Recruitment UK
Published at
03.08.2018
Project ID:
1609161
Contract type
Freelance
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