Senior Procurement Manager

The Senior Procurement Manager will support the local Finance Director and the Director of Procurement Global Markets to maximize value from spend while balancing other business requirements, including quality, service, risk, and security of supply in the local market, across the full bandwidth of goods and services.

What you’ll do:

• Work closely with the Procurement Leadership Team (PLT) providing local market insights to help design and improve procurement and deliver a strategic sourcing strategy.
• Work with key customers and stakeholders to scope, plan and deliver overall category strategies
• Support and drive change management initiatives to drive strategic procurement decisions
• Develop and plan programmes and activities to support brands and support functions to become intelligent customers when engaging with suppliers
• Lead and coordinate initiatives to bring together employees from different parts of the organization to analyze and review third party spend, and identify the most appropriate and effective approach

• Ensure executive sponsorship and robust governance of category management at key decision-making stages.

• Ensure the coordination of activity and knowledge sharing across the category, wider service and beyond, through regular, formal and informal communication and collaboration with the other Procurement Managers and teams
• Work with the business to conduct strategic reviews of individual suppliers and categories, using high quality market and supplier intelligence to develop strategies that deliver breakthrough results

• Ensure framework and mechanisms are in place to monitor, review and validate contract and supplier performance data.
• Provide leadership, direction, and challenge on performance reviews, including the review of supplier KPIs.
• Deliver and lead knowledgeable and professional procurement support, ensuring processes are efficient and effective, adopting best practices techniques to ensure the very highest quality service that delivers true value for our customers.
• Undertake external research and analysis, ensuring the identification of best practice, and assessing potential synergies with other critical and strategic contracts and wider collaborative opportunities.
• Develop and use intelligence on the current supply base, market, and financial data
• Design and lead market shaping and development activities, participate in stakeholder engagement and consultation activities
• Plan and lead negotiations with the supplier on all major issues regarding commercial elements of the contract. Add strategic value to the contract by influencing negotiations regarding any contractual changes ensuring value for money and introducing best practice processes.