Overview
End Date Tuesday 07 October 2025
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Job Title: Sourcing Manager - HR Procurement
Location(s): Edinburgh or Bristol
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About This Opportunity
An exciting opportunity within the People & HR Services Procurement Team has arisen. As a Sourcing Manager youll take the lead and provide support for various procurement related activities specific to the People & HR Services Procurement category. This role predominantly supports People & Places (P&P), with occasional exposure to other areas of the group.
Youll work with stakeholders to source new 3rd party solutions for a range of services, as well as optimise, renegotiate or re-tender services provided by existing suppliers. Services cover Permanent Resourcing, Health & Wellbeing, Reward & Recognition, Learning, Leadership & Development, and outsourced Operations. This is a great opportunity to be involved in sourcing services with an important impact on colleagues and their families. Each week will be different, offering a broader view of the wider business as you communicate with business leads across P&P. The team is focused on providing end-to-end Sourcing services and bringing not only sourcing expertise but a perspective on solution optimisation and performance measures.
We actively encourage and support personal development to enable each team member to become a trusted adviser to the business.
Responsibilities
* Youll contribute to the development of category strategies, delivering initiatives to drive effective supply of services to LBG and manage the cost base
* Youll supervise initiatives with stakeholders to drive spend management through demand management, simplifying specifications and achieving strong business outcomes
* Youll work with colleagues, internal partners and third-party suppliers to optimally run all aspects of the sourcing lifecycle, ensuring best value in support of LBGs strategic vision
* Youll lead or support sourcing activities across the category and create market competition to generate the best commercial outcomes, bringing innovation to the business
* Youll develop strong working relationships across senior stakeholder communities
What Youll Need
* Strong commercial awareness, including financial analysis
* Strong, proven negotiation skills – preferably in a supplier setting
* Strong organisation, communication, facilitation and influencing skills
* Leadership: working with colleagues and other senior stakeholders
* Teamwork and collaboration
* Demonstrable sourcing, financial and IT background. Candidates with other key attributes may also be considered
About Working For Us
Our focus is to ensure we are inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We are disability confident and welcome reasonable adjustments to recruitment processes.
We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, including up to 15% pension contribution, an annual bonus (subject to Group performance), share schemes including free shares, lifestyle-adaptive benefits such as discounted shopping, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, and wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies.
Join our journey. At Lloyds Banking Group, were driven by a clear purpose: to help Britain prosper. We provide opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
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Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Purchasing and Supply Chain
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (reference postings over time)
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