Category & Sourcing Manager| S3 | CFO | Multiple Locations

Santander USA; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational financial services company in the UK seeks a Category & Sourcing Manager to lead supplier and category management activities. You will drive cost efficiency and manage procurement strategies while ensuring compliance and quality standards. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in category management and a strong background in financial planning. This position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Discretionary performance-related annual bonus

8% pension contribution

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

£6,000 car allowance

Private medical insurance

Voluntary healthcare benefits

Company-funded death-in-service benefit

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the team to develop multi-year sourcing and category strategies.
• Execute complex and strategic sourcing activity to improve cost income ratio.
• Drive cost business benefits aligned with Procurement and business targets.

Skills

Category management

Supplier management

Financial planning

Team leadership

Cost management

Job description

Category & Sourcing Manager| S3 | CFO | Multiple Locations

Country: United Kingdom

Join our community:

As the Category & Sourcing manager you will will be responsible for leading supplier management, category management and sourcing activity aligned to a specific spend area, assisting Santander UK and other group entities that Santander UK provide service to in achieving its cost to income targets.

This role will be expected to achieve this by ensuring they are the first point of call for professional advisory support acting as a key enabler to achieve the optimum outcomes for the bank. They will also support driving internal and external NPS scores

The difference you’ll make:

As Category & Sourcing Manager you’ll play a key part in the continual evolvement of Cost Management and Procurement, driving us towards Even Better Cost Management and Procurement. Liaising across the organisation to generate a full and accurate category demand, providing analysis on movements from this in the actual demand, and recommendations in how to enhance the banks cost position. 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 lead and manage the team to deliver the following:

• Build multi-year sourcing and category strategies using market data and industry trends, ensuring the true end to end cost picture, opportunities, risks and innovation are fully articulated and understood.

• Lead and execute complex and strategic sourcing activity, understanding the impact on the cost income ratio

• Drive cost and business benefits (tangible & intangible) to deliver against Procurement and business targets

• Interpret business strategy and adapt into tangible sourcing and category plans

• Actively identify benefit unlock through contract lifecycle management

What you’ll bring:

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

• Subject matter expert for the category and contracts under management, and generalist expertise across other areas.

• 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:

• Have a good understanding of the Financial Services regulatory framework

• Experience in operating in Procurement systems

• Experience of building high performing teams

What else you need to know:

Our preferred location for this role is Unity Place 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.

• 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].