At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
Global Supply Management (GSM) is responsible for partnering with AMEX colleagues to optimize their third-party spend. Strategic Sourcing and Category Management is GSM’s face to AMEX colleagues and suppliers. We provide strategic consultation, bringing global value perspective, negotiation and delivery to maximize purchasing power of supplier spend and help free up investment capacity through deeper partnerships with our Business Partners. Strategic Sourcing and Category Management is also responsible for managing our supplier strategy with our business partners, identifying and on-boarding new suppliers, realizing significant cost saves and contract implementation.
Procurement Associate role is based in Brighton, UK and reports into the Director, EMEA Strategic Sourcing & Business Enablement.
How will you make an impact in this role?
1. Support Category Managers and ensure end to end delivery of regional procurement strategy. Act as the coordination point for local and global engagements related to the relevant categories
2. Develop and grow strong relationships with business partners to gain business unit knowledge, understand goals, and identify issues and potential opportunities (e.g. influence requirements, advise business how to capture the most value from supplier relations); with a customer first mindset and strategy. Act as a point of contact for select business partners
3. Support development of strategic, forward thinking category plans with multi-year value generating sourcing initiatives to enable business success. Develop a category review cycle to refresh strategy and ensure alignment with business partners on a regular basis
4. Bring external insights, innovative ideas, and an enterprise view on market trends, competitive landscape value generation and strategic sourcing opportunities
5. Support Category Managers in building strong partnership with select strategic suppliers and manage them effectively
6. Monitor total spend across the business to leverage global/regional spend where applicable
7. Support EMEA team on special projects related but not limited to Responsible Sourcing initiatives (e.g. net zero and paper sustainability)
Minimum Qualifications
8. Minimum of two - three years of procurement experience (Preferably in Financial Services environment), supplier diversity experience a plus
9. Evidence of strong procurement experience, competitive intelligence and capabilities across marketing categories
10. Procurement professional with operating knowledge of contract law, local/regional/global sourcing strategies, risk management, vendor due diligence, supplier development and complex negotiations skills
11. Ability to manage day to day business priorities along with long term strategic deliverables
12. Strong project management skills and financial experience including development of CBAs and financial models
13. Passion for using analytics to develop insights and recommendations, solve business challenges, improve the customer experience, and drive bottom line results
14. Strong communication and influencing skills with evidence of consistently delivering cost savings and value-add opportunities
15. Ability to proactively drive internal stakeholder and external supplier relationships; ability to work with colleagues and suppliers at all levels
16. Excellent people skills, including relationship management, communication, negotiation, influencing, planning, presentation and motivation
17. Self - starter, positive attitude, flexibility and ability to deal with ambiguity and rapid change
18. University degree or CIPS qualification (or studying towards the qualification) is a plus.
19. Additional European language skills (e.g. Spain, Italian) are a bonus.
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
20. Competitive base salaries
21. Bonus incentives
22. Support for financial-well-being and retirement
23. Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
24. Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
25. Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
26. Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
27. Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
28. Career development and training opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.