Company Overview:
A transatlantic consumer, corporate and investment bank offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, with a strong presence in our two home markets of the UK and the US.
Key Responsiblities:
- Responsible for key process activities across the Category and Sourcing team ensuring adherence to all sourcing control, risk and governance processes.
- Develop a thorough understanding of procurement structure, policies and procedures, and ensure Management Assurance results with high degree of compliance, and all project and category management documentation is kept current with a high degree of accuracy. The role holder will be able to explain and share this understanding with stakeholders during category planning and deal execution.
- Maintain currency and compliance in all required policy, tools and systems training.
- The role holder will be required to build and maintain a strong operational and strategic network with other Sourcing and Procurement colleagues to improve sourcing processes and capability.
- The role holder will be able to work under pressure and multi-task to support a number of concurrent deals with multiple sourcing managers, stakeholders, contract managers and suppliers.
- Work with the Sourcing and Category POD Leads, Supplier Managers, procurement operations and key business stakeholders to agree short and longer term strategy that will optimise supplier costs whilst enabling the business to maintain appropriate service levels and minimise risk.
- Identification of opportunities for efficiencies with relevant HR and Professional Services spend categories be these cost reductions or process improvements
- Developing category strategy and executable category plans which are business-aligned, and, aligned with the current and future market, including the identification of near and long term opportunities
- Executing all sourcing projects in accordance with policy and evidenced by management assurance testing results