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.