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Indirect Procurement Manager

Portfolio Procurement
Posted 9 hours ago, valid for 4 days
Location

St. Albans, Hertfordshire AL3 6JZ, England

Salary

£50,000 - £60,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Procurement Manager position is with a global FMCG enterprise focused on managing Indirect spend in areas like Professional Services and HR Services.
  • The role requires collaboration with key stakeholders across various functions to enhance vendor management processes and strategies.
  • Candidates should have experience in Indirect Category management, contract management, and vendor negotiation.
  • The position offers a competitive salary of $90,000 and requires a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
  • Key responsibilities include creating Professional Services Category plans, ensuring compliance with vendor management policies, and resolving vendor issues.

Procurement Manager to join a global FMCG enterprise who will be assigned to work collaboratively with key stakeholders across the business to manage their Indirect spend across Professional Services and HR Services, Legal and IT. This role will work closely with various stakeholders in the business as well as other functions within their professional services spend.

Day to Day Responsibility will include:

  • Working closely with various Stakeholders within HR, Legal and Professional Services teams to understand their current vendors, vendor management and review processes and strategy.
  • Working with the wider procurement team in the cost-effectiveness of negotiations with market leading vendors.
  • Ensuring compliance of negotiated agreements to established vendor management policies and practices.
  • Create and manage the Professional Services Category plans.
  • Serving as a point of escalation for vendor issues and disputes and driving those issues to resolution.
  • Regularly review and evaluate opportunities to improve best practices to achieve higher maturity in management of Professional Services vendors.

Experience required:

  • Experience in Indirect Category management.
  • Understanding of contractual, commercial, and operational working relationships with vendors to ensure effective delivery of committed products, services, and solutions.
  • Working knowledge of contract management and negotiation.
  • Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, strategic planning and execution skills.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.