Supplier Manager

Supplier Manager

Birmingham/Bristol/Edinburgh/Halifax

Until 31/12/2025

Salary £88,000pa, plus 5% bonus and extensive benefits (see below)

Hybrid 2 days in office

Pontoon is an employment consultancy, we put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identifies, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

My client powers businesses of all sizes to make, take and manage payments. They are a global leader in financial technology with unique capabilities to power omni-commerce. Whether online, in store or mobile, they are at the heart of great commerce experiences in 146 countries and across 135 currencies. They help our customers become more efficient, more secure and more successful.

They are looking for a Supplier Manager to join the team on an initial 9-month contract. You will be working Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm with occasional out of hours, the role is hybrid working being office based 2 days a week, 3 days working from home. Some travel to suppliers will be required but can be expensed.

The Role:

Working with the Group Chief Operating Office (GCOO) you will be fundamental in executing their strategy and delivering upon their purpose. By building strong and long-lasting relationships with suppliers, you will be enabling the organisation to stay ahead of the competition and better serve its customers.

GCOO Supplier Management manages the relationships with the organisations wide technology suppliers, who are part of the Group's wider strategy and delivery model.

They are looking for a highly motivated individual, who can develop and manage a portfolio of Suppliers, who can work in partnerships both with external providers and internal senior stakeholders to ensure services are resilient, are provided in line with their policies and contract and business expectations.

About the role:

Specific activities which you'll be responsible for include things like:

• You will build collaborative relationships with senior internal and external partners
• Working in collaboration with the business areas, you will ensure your suppliers deliver in line with expectations and drive incremental value and deliver competitive advantage in line with strategic and operational objectives.
• Responsible for the active management of suppliers and apply the appropriate level of Treatment Standards.
• By utilising data to identify trends, deliver continuous improvements to maximise our value and minimise risk in our supply chain.
• Act as a source of expertise with your suppliers, providing professional advice to key partners and colleagues.

Using your relationship management skills, you'll balance holding their supply partners to account for delivering the key services they expect whilst working in partnership to identify continuous additional value. This role reports directly into the Senior Supplier Manager and is part of an established team of supplier managers.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• Delivering results with accountability
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Management
• Communication with impact
• Influencing
• Risk Management
• Business Insights
• Managing ambiguity and change
• Judgement and decision making
• Demonstrating self-awareness and growth mindset

And any experience of this would be useful:

• Experience of working with suppliers/3rd Parties
• Experience of Sourcing
• An understanding and awareness of Cyber, operational resilience, data privacy, technology, and cloud policies

Your motivation, behaviours and your drive to make a difference are more important to them than specific experience within Supplier Management. You'll be curious, bringing new ideas and sharing experience and passionate about the impact they can make.

Please apply with an up-to-date CV which must show evidence of the above to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you.

You will be an integral part of Ajilon (Adecco), a FTSE500 Global organisation with over 52 clients and sole supplier to the biggest organisations in the country and the world. You will be employed by ourselves as an Ajilon Consultant working onsite with our client where you will receive a regular salary, pension contributions, holiday and sick pay, plus a number of additional benefits such as medical insurance, income protection, critical illness and life insurance, access to our discounted benefits website and library of online training materials and future career and certification opportunities.