Marketing Category and Sourcing Manager

Barclays Bank Plc; Sworton Heath; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is seeking a Marketing Category and Sourcing Manager to optimize third-party spend requirements and implement strategic sourcing initiatives across various marketing categories. Responsibilities include planning sourcing events, ensuring compliance, and collaborating with internal stakeholders. The ideal candidate should have strong stakeholder management skills, excellent organization abilities, and a deep understanding of procurement best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in stakeholder management.
• Proven organisation and time management skills.
• Knowledge of commercial practices.

Responsibilities

• Optimize 3rd party spend requirements.
• Plan and execute sourcing events including RFPs.
• Monitor controls and compliance throughout sourcing cycles.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Strong Organisation Skills

Commercial Knowledge

Contract Negotiations

Procurement best-in-class practices

Resilience

Self-starter

Marketing Knowledge

Risk and controls knowledge

Strategic thinking

Job description

Overview

Join us as a Marketing Category and Sourcing Manager at Barclays, to optimise and address Barclays 3rd party spend requirements, including the definition, development and implementation of approaches for relevant spend categories and requirements with close collaboration with the business and execution of strategic sourcing across a wide range of marketing categories.

Responsibilities

• Profile spend in category area and develop understanding of business strategy, business requirements, cost levers and opportunities. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify sourcing needs, develop requests for proposal and ensure sourcing activities align to the bank's needs and priorities.
• Plan and execute sourcing events including RFP/RFXs, negotiations to best meet the business requirements for value, speed, compliance, risk.
• Monitor and guide controls and compliance requirements to be met throughout the category and sourcing cycle from request to contract, including regulatory engagement, controls, audits, data quality, etc.
• Develop, implement and operate policies and procedures for sourcing activities aligned to policies, standards, relevant compliance and regulation.
• Identify and deliver change opportunities to improve effectiveness, control and efficiency of sourcing processes including buying channel optimisation for relevant categories of spend (catalogues, demand challenge, etc.).
• Identify industry trends and developments related to sourcing and category management by attending conferences, participating in training, and conducting market research on techniques and tools.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross‑functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, requiring an understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub‑function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work for business‑aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources, internal and external, to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Required Experience and Skills

• Stakeholder Management.
• Strong Organisation Skills and Time Management.
• Commercial Knowledge.
• Contract Negotiations.
• Procurement best‑in‑class practices.
• Resilience.
• Self‑starter.
• Marketing Knowledge.
• Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

Core Values

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.