The role of resource procurement manager will be managing a procurement team and composing panels of supplier solutions regarding technology and people resource to drive business improvements and meet short term and long-term goals outlined by the senior leadership team. You will be supporting a large UK bank across multiple business areas to manage their technology sourcing and people resource using expert negotiation and problem solving to implement the most suitable option.
What you’ll be doing:
- Managing the procurement team and working closely with department heads to identify recommendations for change and escalating policy and procedure breaches.
- Demonstrating clear leadership behaviours to empower colleague performance and drive success for the business.
- Balancing short- and long-term goals to ensure budgets and schedules meet business requirements.
- Providing guidance and insight as the subject matter expert and communicating technical terminology to different audiences in an accessible way.
- Advising key stakeholders and functional teams of impact and alignment.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of business organisational functions to comfortably understand core requirements from suppliers to embed positive change and strategy improvements.
- Create solutions based on fact driven analytical thought to define problems, develop innovative solutions with alternative options.
- Provide evidence and reports detailing the outcomes of different solution options for senior stakeholders to agree final sign off on the chosen solution.
- Collaborate and build trusted relationships with existing partners and new suppliers to maximise negotiation and integration of solution components and credibility.
What we’d like to see from your application:
- Previous experience in procurement including people resource and technology sourcing.
- Experience working for enterprise size companies ideally within financial services.
- Excellent handle on negotiation and effective interrogation of supplier service agreements.
- Experience with budget management across multiple spend categories.
- Able to communicate supplier bid documents in presentations to senior stakeholders to compare available options.
- Able to manage multiple workstreams and meet agreed deadlines for providing supplier options and competitive pricing.
Location: Hybrid working from either Glasgow, Manchester or Northampton. 3 days a week in office 2 days from home. Travel expenses are not covered so the ideal candidate will need to be within a comfortable distance of one of the office locations.
The rate on offer: £400 - £500 a day via Umbrella DOE.
Hours: Monday to Friday. 9am – 5pm
Duration: 3 - 6 months with opportunity to extend.
Email your CV to vacancies@equiniti.com to apply for this role with the subject matter: (Procurement Manager + Location from those listed that applies to you e.g Glasgow)
Please note any offer is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of employment, activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.
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