Sourcing Manager | Indirect Categories | Public Sector | Infrastructure Organisation Buckinghamshire Hybrid (1 day in office the rest remote) £55,000-£60,000 + competitive discounts & benefits Overview: As the Sourcing Manager your role purpose will be to manage the sourcing activities for multi-million-pound, medium cost and business risk opportunities, to include idea generation and innovation across complex spend categories and work collaboratively with relevant customers and stakeholders to create and deliver significant commercial and contractual value.
Key Responsibilities: Develop and manage the sourcing process from business requirement to contract signature, on behalf of key customers and stakeholders, for multi-million-pound medium cost and business risk opportunities, where expert levels of indirect and direct influencing techniques and political savviness are required, utilising, where relevant, commercial purpose-built models, to create and deliver significant commercial and contractual value, in support of the Director's annual savings target
Implement approved Integrated Category Strategies (ICS) through the development and delivery of the qualified Sourcing pipeline, in collaboration with the relevant Category Manager and relevant customers and stakeholders, to release the full defined savings and benefits value committed to within the ICS, with the ambition to deliver beyond the maximum value approved.
Apply the Sourcing Framework for sourcing led opportunities outside of ICS creation and where total annual spend ranges between £100m to £300m and within an OJEU environment, to manage all risk, governance, legislative and regulatory requirements, validated by the Procurement Risk and Assurance team
Expert negotiator of sourcing enabled savings and benefit opportunities, in collaboration with all relevant customers and stakeholders.
Develop and implement of sourcing specific ideas and innovation-based business cases, working in collaboration with relevant customers and stakeholders, to address existing business problems that require external sourcing specific market expertise to solve .
Facilitate the transition of Sourcing led execution to Strategic Supplier Management, to manage a seamless customer experience from business requirement through to post contract signature and position the Supplier Management team to optimise their delivery of full contractual and relationship value.
Skills and experience required: Deep level of Sourcing experience, with a demonstrable track record of savings delivery
Demonstrable level of negotiation and dispute resolution skill set
Demonstrable experience of contract law and financial management
Demonstrable experience of driving value from complex sourcing opportunities
Experienced with agile cross-functional collaborative working methods
Detailed knowledge of the UK Rail Industry, including procurement processes in a reclassified environment
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