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Senior Procurement Manager

My client is a FTSE 100 financial services organisation with a world class procurement function. Due to expansion, there now exists a vacancy for an experienced procurement manager to work in the Market Data area. This is predominantly dealing with suppliers such as Experian and Call Credit.

The role holder will be expected to:
Build and manage senior level relationships internally and with suppliers against a backdrop of integration of the supply base, and an over domination of products and services some of which are from a single source.
Leverage significant savings within the category through continued evaluation of the service delivery model (Make/Buy) and anticipating the business demand for new products.
Promote common working and understanding of data supply and usage across the Group to deliver maximum cost savings from suppliers on future business improvement or regulatory change initiatives
Promote cross collaboration at a Group and functional level to develop the supplier services profile against the company’s future requirements.

Candidates should ideally have category experience, stakeholder management at both a strategic and operational level, commercial apptitude and lead negotiation experience, strong influencing skills, able to identify problems or opportunities, design solutions, sell, project plan and deliver. Individual’s with a “can do attitude” and who can think outside the box as well as take ownership and accountability for achievements of targets and deliverables are encouraged to apply.

Core responsibilities include:
Lead, develop and implement “Market Data” sourcing strategies that support Group wide and local business unit strategies to agreed timetable and cost/benefit estimate:
Provide market/category expenditure analysis and procurement related support to all functions involved in the purchase of products/services supporting decisions across the customer lifecycle from acquisition to collection
Re-negotiate commercial and contractual terms with existing suppliers
Compose and negotiate supply agreements with new suppliers to ensure best in class cost, delivery and performance for the company drawing upon templates and legal expertise as required.
Actively seek out and evaluate potential alternative suppliers to ensure financially sound, technically competent and strategically aligned to the company. Mitigate all supply continuity risks
Establish and maintain professional relationships with internal customers up to MD level and suppliers
Identify savings with BU’s through re-engineering of processes evaluating make/buy decisions or negotiate existing supplier fees down across the group for credit and marketing systems

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