Job Description:
Job information Indirect Procurement Category Manager from the Company Sony Electronics, this latest Indirect Procurement Category Manager job vacancy is located in the city Weybridge located in the country United Kingdom. This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE .
Job Responsibility:
* Do you have Indirect Procurement experience with P&FM, Corporate and Business Services?
* Are you an excellent communicator and negotiator?
* Are you motivated, curious and open to diverse opinions?
If so, please apply and start your exciting journey with Sony. In this role, you will lead take ownership of a diverse range of categories across Europe, primarily focusing on P&FM, Corporate and Business Services. You should be adaptable, willing to flex to consistently evolving business needs, and excited to occasionally travel to other Sony EU offices to build relationships and motivate changes.
We strive to support the business and its supply base in identifying the real currencies in play when we spend, be they talent, ideas, innovation, employee satisfaction or simply price. To give them the experience and tools to maximise the value that those currencies generate. We want your vision, passion, influence, business sense and strategic expertise in steering procurement.
In this highly visible role, you'll take full ownership of spend categories that directly support local and European top management decisions and deliver on the bottom line. You'll be part of a well-established and mature team in a genuine centre of excellence, decorated with awards, growing and fast becoming global in our horizons.
Our teams use modern tools & analytics, service & delivery in-country, category management across countries and for both engineering and professional services - and the right person has the opportunity to develop into or across all areas. You will:
* Establish and maintain positive relationships with senior stakeholders to understand & define business requirements.
* Lead the implementation of EU sourcing strategies in your category areas.
* Identify, lead and collaborate with our in-country teams for local sourcing projects.
* Manage suppliers by supervising performance, SLA's and continuous improvement activities.
* Own contract information, critical metric indicator data and approvals for your categories.
* Develop your long-range category strategy.
* Negotiate and lead the commercial elements of category contracts.
* Support central initiatives, such as our sustainability goals, for improving the efficiency of CPE platform and overall procurement activities in Europe.
* Develop and maintain a relationship with other category teams and Sony sister companies, where applicable, in order to find opportunities for joined procurement activities
You will bring:
* Corporate procurement within a multi-national company, leading indirect procurement in P&FM, and Corporate or Business Services
* Experienced in developing, supporting and implementing procurement strategies and leading project teams at a European/multi country level
* A successful negotiator with excellent stakeholder and supplier management skills, equally focused on value for money, service quality and positive strategic outcomes
* Highly influential and credible at the highest levels
* Numerate and logical - able to make and rationalise data-driven decisions
* Strong customer service sense and attitude with a commercial and entrepreneurial driven mentality
Your new office Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our own Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours.
We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony's purpose - ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology'. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.
Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at AccommodationRequest@eu.sony.com or by mail to: Sony Europe B.V, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK.
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