Indirect Procurement Manager (Top 10 Advisory)

This is an amazing opportunity to join a marketing leading, Top 10 Accountancy, Consulting and Advisory firm who are a £ multi-billion turnover business employing almost 90,000 staff, on a truly global scale. The role is to support the Head of Procurement, being very stakeholder focused across all spend disciplines such as IT, FM, Professional Services, HR, Marketing, Travel and Communications.

The business are looking for someone with really strong stakeholder management experience, who have pro-actively approach stakeholders across all levels up to Board members and discuss forward thinking procurement strategies for their relevant area. The overall objectives for this position are to create cost benefits, the highest, most efficient service delivery, minimise risks and gain control of all current and new contracts. You''ll be a key part in rolling out the procurement strategy across the business using your extensive experience to drive things forward.

Role and responsibilities:

Identify internal senior stakeholders and business leads to understand their individual needs
Post-analyse the company''s spend and suppliers, start to implement and develop group procurement
Manage and influence internal stakeholders on supplier improvements using market knowledge
Act truly as a Business Partner to key stakeholders, acting as an advisor
Set out supplier SLA''s to ensure that various vendors and hitting quality of service
Using strategic sourcing methods, identify new suppliers for cost or delivery improvements
Ongoing supplier and vendor management, reviewing current supply base and renegotiating where needed
Sell the true benefits of using procurement to the firm and relevant stakeholdersExperience and requirements:

Proven procurement experience across general indirect. Corporate services spend
Worked within Financial, Accountancy or Professional Services industries - preferable but not essential
Implemented procurement processes into a firm from an immature function
Worked in a truly global, blue chip business that is ever changing
Experience of influencing senior level stakeholders, and able to relay examples
Developed group wide sourcing and supplier management processes
Confident, adaptable and able to juggle multiple projects in a busy environment
Degree or MCIPS qualified, preferable but not essential

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