Sourcing Specialist – Corporate & Professional Services | £45,000 to £50,000 | bonus | 12% matched pension | Healthcare | Dental | + many more benefits | 2 days a week in the office – Birmingham, Bristol, Bolton or London | One of the world's largest insurance and financial services businesses
A brand new role working for a market leading, Global Insurer who are adding to the team a Sourcing Specialist – Professional Services as part of a new and exciting transformation.
You will be reporting into the Category Lead – Professional Services to take ownership of the category, supporting on large complex and strategic projects, whilst still looking for the best commercial value. A hugely exciting time to join the business in the midst of a procurement transformation where the team will continue to grow.
This role requires a candidate with and good level of indirect sourcing, some end to end procurement projects and a really ambitious attitude looking to develop your career around a large team of experienced category members.
Category coverage: Consultancy, Legal, Audit, Tax, Insurance, HR, Recruitment, L&D, Training, Benefits, Pensions and Reward
Role and responsibilities:
- Create corporate strategies through to the delivery and performance including year on year annualised savings
- Review new and existing contracts to identify and mitigate risks
- Develop group wide category plans and strategies to ensure alignment for the group, leveraging suppliers to support local offices
- Engage, manage and influence senior stakeholders from Director to Board level to ensure buy-in, utilising strong market knowledge
- Build relationships with key stakeholders to ensure a rounded knowledge of a suppliers performance
- Monitor supplier risk and performance through reporting tools and business feedback
- Be a Procurement role model by living company values, consistently delivering to the high standards expected, promoting procurement through relationships
- On top over delivering strategic projects, ensure the business is getting the best service in line with cost efficiency
Experience and requirements:
- Proven end to end procurement across a broad range of indirect and corporate categories
- Strong contracts experience, understanding risk, SLA’s and Contractual terms
- As well as having some more generalist Indirect category management
- Private sector procurement experience, ideally working for a global business
- Previous experience working on complex global projects, dealing with Tier 1 suppliers of significant values
- Confident in engaging and influencing senior level stakeholders, and across various regions
- A highly strategic mindset when approaching procurement, suppliers and business needs
- Excellent communications skills when dealing with contacts in different cultures and countries
- Able to adapt in a very fast paced, continuously changing environment
- MCIPS qualified, nice to have but not essential
Sourcing Specialist – Corporate & Professional Services | £45,000 to £50,000 | bonus | 12% matched pension | Healthcare | Dental | + many more benefits | 2 days a week in the office – Birmingham, Bristol, Bolton or London | One of the world’s largest insurance and financial services businesses
A brand new role working for a market leading, Global Insurer who are adding to the team a Sourcing Specialist – Professional Services as part of a new and exciting transformation.
You will be reporting into the Category Lead – Professional Services to take ownership of the category, supporting on large complex and strategic projects, whilst still looking for the best commercial value. A hugely exciting time to join the business in the midst of a procurement transformation where the team will continue to grow.
This role requires a candidate with and good level of indirect sourcing, some end to end procurement projects and a really ambitious attitude looking to develop your career around a large team of experienced category members.
Category coverage: Consultancy, Legal, Audit, Tax, Insurance, HR, Recruitment, L&D, Training, Benefits, Pensions and Reward
Role and responsibilities:
- Create corporate strategies through to the delivery and performance including year on year annualised savings
- Review new and existing contracts to identify and mitigate risks
- Develop group wide category plans and strategies to ensure alignment for the group, leveraging suppliers to support local offices
- Engage, manage and influence senior stakeholders from Director to Board level to ensure buy-in, utilising strong market knowledge
- Build relationships with key stakeholders to ensure a rounded knowledge of a suppliers performance
- Monitor supplier risk and performance through reporting tools and business feedback
- Be a Procurement role model by living company values, consistently delivering to the high standards expected, promoting procurement through relationships
- On top over delivering strategic projects, ensure the business is getting the best service in line with cost efficiency
Experience and requirements:
- Proven end to end procurement across a broad range of indirect and corporate categories
- Strong contracts experience, understanding risk, SLA’s and Contractual terms
- As well as having some more generalist Indirect category management
- Private sector procurement experience, ideally working for a global business
- Previous experience working on complex global projects, dealing with Tier 1 suppliers of significant values
- Confident in engaging and influencing senior level stakeholders, and across various regions
- A highly strategic mindset when approaching procurement, suppliers and business needs
- Excellent communications skills when dealing with contacts in different cultures and countries
- Able to adapt in a very fast paced, continuously changing environment
- MCIPS qualified, nice to have but not essential
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