Marketing Category and Sourcing Manager

Barclays Bank PLC; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Barclays as a Marketing Category and Sourcing Manager to optimize third-party spend and implement strategic sourcing across marketing categories. This role requires strong stakeholder management, organizational skills, and contract negotiation experience. You will lead sourcing initiatives and collaborate with various functions to enhance efficiency and compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience in stakeholder management and commercial knowledge is essential.
• Strong organizational and time management skills required.
• Ability to negotiate contracts and manage risks.

Responsibilities

• Optimize and address third-party spend requirements and execute strategic sourcing.
• Lead a team and manage sourcing events including negotiations and compliance.
• Monitor controls and drive improvements in sourcing processes.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Strong Organization Skills

Time Management

Commercial Knowledge

Contract Negotiations

Job description

Join us as a Marketing Category and Sourcing Manager at Barclays, to optimize and address Barclays' third-party spend requirements, including defining, developing, and implementing approaches for relevant spend categories in close collaboration with the business, and executing strategic sourcing across a wide range of marketing categories.

To be successful in this role, you should have experience with:

• Stakeholder Management
• Strong Organization Skills and Time Management
• Commercial Knowledge
• Contract Negotiations

Additional valuable skills include:

• Resilience
• Marketing Knowledge

You may be assessed on key skills relevant for success, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as technical skills.

This role can be based in Glasgow, Northampton, or Knutsford.

Purpose of the role

To optimize and address Barclays' third-party spend requirements, including defining, developing, and implementing approaches for relevant spend categories through collaboration with the business and executing strategic sourcing and channel development/optimization.

Accountabilities

• Profile spend in the category area, understand business strategy, requirements, cost levers, and opportunities. Collaborate with stakeholders to identify sourcing needs, develop RFPs, and ensure sourcing aligns with bank priorities.
• Plan and execute sourcing events, including RFP/RFXs, and negotiate to meet business needs for value, speed, compliance, and risk.
• Monitor and guide controls and compliance throughout the sourcing cycle, including regulatory engagement, controls, audits, and data quality.
• Develop, implement, and operate policies and procedures for sourcing activities in line with policies, standards, and regulations.
• Identify and implement improvements to sourcing processes, including channel optimization for relevant spend categories.
• Stay informed on industry trends related to sourcing and category management through conferences, training, and market research.
• Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and collaborate across functions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, setting objectives, coaching, and appraising performance.
• If in a leadership role, demonstrate Barclays' LEAD behaviors: Listen, Energize, Align, Develop.
• For individual contributors, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members, identifying new directions and methodologies.
• Consult on complex issues, support risk mitigation, and develop policies to strengthen controls.
• Manage risks and controls in work activities.
• Coordinate with other areas to contribute to organizational objectives.
• Engage in complex data analysis from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex or sensitive information effectively.
• Influence stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.

All colleagues are expected to embody Barclays' Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

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