Agile Category & Sourcing Specialist| S3 | CFO | Multiple Locations |

Santander USA; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in the UK seeks an Agile Category & Sourcing Specialist. This role involves managing strategic procurement and cost management initiatives to optimize business performance and ensure compliance. Key responsibilities include leading material cost projects, negotiating supplier contracts, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in category management and project transformation. This opportunity offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working pattern.

Benefits

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

£6,000 car allowance per year

Company-funded individual private medical insurance

Discretionary performance-related annual bonus

Qualifications

• Proven record of successful category management in a global procurement organization.
• Experience of leading transformation projects and programmes.
• Understands complex large contracts, commercial influences and technical drafting.

Responsibilities

• Build multi-year sourcing and category strategies using market data.
• Lead cost transformation activity and ensure due diligence.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to drive success.

Skills

Category management

Transformation projects

Supplier negotiation

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Agile Category & Sourcing Specialist| S3 | CFO | Multiple Locations |

Country: United Kingdom

Join our community:

The Agile Category & Sourcing Specialist will be a highly organised, strategic, and communicative individual, providing support across the cost team. This role operates at an expert level and will lead and execute complex cost, procurement and sourcing initiatives across the bank. This role requires expertise in process design, demand optimisation, sourcing, supplier management, contract negotiation, and cross-functional leadership. You will be responsible for managing high-value programme activities that assist Santander UK and other group entities that Santander UK provide service to in achieving its cost to income targets.

The difference you’ll make:

As Agile Category & Sourcing Specialist you’ll play a key part in the continual evolvement of Cost Management and Procurement, driving us towards Even Better Cost Management and Procurement. You will lead material cost and procurement projects across the organisation, establishing success criteria and execution timelines, and driving us to becoming the easiest way to make our customers better happen. You will act as an expert reference point for the banks cost management process and the external market. You will also ensure that quality, compliance and cost-effectiveness of the work delivered by our suppliers meets Santander expectations

The specific responsibility of the role is to deliver the following:

• Build multi-year sourcing and category strategies using market data and industry trends, ensuring Lead end-to-end strategic procurement activities from initiation through execution and close-out.

• Lead cost transformation activity, driving changes to reporting, management information and systems that drive quantifiable value to the organisation

• Partner with suppliers to deliver complex and market leading value enhancement programmes.

• Ensure that project and supplier due diligence, onboarding, and third-party risk assessments are completed in line with regulatory requirements

• Negotiate complex supplier agreements and contracts, ensuring favourable terms and risk mitigation with emphasis on cyber security, data privacy, SLAs and exit planning

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to drive success.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven record of successful category management in a global procurement organization.

• Experience of leading transformation projects and programmes.

• Understands complex large contracts, commercial influences and technical drafting

• Contribute to financial planning, including delivery of annual budget submissions, monthly forecasting, reviewing the spend versus budget status, key initiatives, opportunities and risks

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Experience in cost operating systems

• Experience in operating in Procurement systems

• Experience of presenting business cases at an executive level

What else you need to know:

Our preferred location for this role is Unity Place but we will also consider applications in Bradford and Glasgow.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in (this /any of these) locations, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location(s).

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs. For part-time / contract roles, your salary, bonus (where eligible) and certain benefits will be prorated to reflect your working hours / contract duration. [NB If an FTC, please use this sentence and remove the bonus bullet point below)

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.

• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.

• £6,000 car allowance per year.

• Company funded individual private medical insurance.

• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.

• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.

• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing inour shareplans.

• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services

What to do next:

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through email. You can contact us at [e-mail].