Marketing Sourcing Manager
Bristol, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Halifax or Leeds – Hybrid
6 months contract
Salary from £65,000pa plus extensive benefits, day rate option also available
The role involves assisting in the development and delivery of category strategies and sourcing activities. You will manage aggregate relationships with allocated suppliers to drive costs out, ensuring processes, systems & services are relevant to the business and deliver maximum value to the organisation.
Key Accountabilities
* Understand & implement category and sub‑category strategies, providing input where required, reflecting market conditions whilst optimising total cost of ownership for the organisation.
* Act as a source of professional expertise in own field providing professional advice to key stakeholders and colleagues to promote sourcing best practice.
* Build and maintain internal/external network and relationships to provide appropriate professional advice to achieve the organisations objectives.
* Use own knowledge of the business and sourcing to identify, agree and implement best practice and opportunities for continuous improvement.
* Apply knowledge of contractual terms and conditions ensuring risk mitigation is embedded into supply contracts to provide high quality services to the organisation.
* Work collaboratively across the organisations sourcing to develop and implement the appropriate supplier governance structure ensuring effective contract handover.
* Ensure compliance to all sourcing policies, procedures and systems ensuring an efficient and auditable sourcing trail.
* Positively influence others by demonstrating the organisations core values and behaviours and where appropriate, manage, develop and motivate colleagues to support a high performing team.
* Manage self and, where appropriate, own team in the context of relevant risk policies and frameworks.
Skills and Background
* Experience of working in a similar role, particularly covering marketing sourcing.
* Working knowledge of SAP Ariba.
* Strong communication skills.
* Able to negotiate and influence others.
* Experience of supporting and mentoring peers.
* Project experience.
* Good attention to detail, able to prioritise and adapt.
* Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply qualification an advantage.
* Previous experience of working within a finance or regulated setting would be an advantage.
Benefits
Regular salary, pension contributions, holiday and sick pay, plus additional benefits such as medical insurance, income protection, critical illness, life insurance, access to a discounted benefits website and library of online training materials and future career and certification opportunities.
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