Procurement Business Partner Manager

Procurement Business Partner Manager

The Procurement Business Partner Manager will play an integral role in driving the strategic direction aligned with the Head of Procurement’s strategy, mission and vision. This role will manage procurement activities for business stakeholders across various streams, ensuring best value, cost savings and vendor performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Being the strategic sourcing lead for all requirements e.g. HR, marketing, finance, professional services etc for the relevant business streams.
• Support the Head of Procurement in achieving the Procurement 2028 vision and annual department objectives, alongside savings targets (cost, time, process and efficiency).
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to create and manage the ongoing relevant Category plan(s) and ensure it is a ‘living document’.
• Build an effective, business focused and surgical engagement strategy for our key stakeholders with a ‘one procurement’ approach.
• Working with the wider BDO procurement team in the cost-effectiveness of negotiations with market leading suppliers and ensuring compliance of negotiated agreements to established vendor management policies (such as articulation of service levels and deliverables, etc).
• Responsible for maintaining the list of category vendors, the master data held on them (contractual and commercial) and supporting for the rollout out POs to our strategic suppliers.
• Line management of junior members of the commercial delivery / sourcing team.
• Work to ensure the agreed category management plans, supplier onboarding and supplier management activity addresses ESG targets and aligns to commercial management priorities.
• Building and maintaining relationships with all key stakeholders, and act as a trusted partner.
• Assist the Strategic Streams Lead to drive the strategic vendor management program that analyses relationship performance in addition to cost, operations and risk metrics via periodic evaluation, reviews and action plans.
• Supporting vendor managers / relationship owners to optimise value delivery and business outcomes through consistent management, continuous improvement and guidance of vendor managers aligned to category strategy.
• Serving as a point of escalation for supplier issues and disputes and driving those issues to resolution.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience in Category management across a range of categories – with some understanding of IT & Technology procurement and vendors e.g. SaaS.
• An excellent understanding of procurement processes and contractual elements such as SLAs.
• Good understanding of contractual, commercial and operational working relationships with vendors to ensure effective delivery of committed products, services and solutions.
• Very good knowledge of contract management and negotiation.
• Good understanding of the vendor life cycle (sourcing, procurement, vendor management), and how internal roles interact and operate throughout the duration of vendor engagements.
• Exceptional leadership skills and presence with the ability to develop and present and/or communicate the Procurement vision and goals, acting as a source of knowledge and guidance.
• Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, strategic planning and execution skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive improvements and take charge of initiatives.

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