Sourcing Manager

Matchtech; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Matchtech Group is seeking a Sourcing Manager to lead strategic procurement across goods, services and works in a regulated environment. You will manage cradle-to-grave tenders, develop category strategies, and ensure PA 23 compliant processes in collaboration with stakeholders.

The role focuses on delivering complex procurements, maintaining supplier relationships and refining procurement processes to drive value and alignment with business objectives within the Group Procurement function.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex procurements across goods, services and works.
• Knowledge of PA 23, PCR, UCR and other public procurement regulations.
• Ability to manage cradle-to-grave tender processes and contracts.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex procurements for goods, services, works contracts, frameworks and dynamic markets.
• Support the development and execution of sourcing strategies across the wider business.
• Ensure procurement activity is compliant with PA 23 public sector processes.
• Work closely with stakeholders to align procurement activity with business objectives and category strategies.
• Manage sourcing projects cradle-to-grave from advertisement through to evaluation, award and contract implementation.
• Develop business need assessments, market analysis and category strategies.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, supplier ecosystems and external organisations.

Skills

Strategic procurement

Regulated environment experience

PA 23 knowledge

Tender cradle-to-grave

Stakeholder management

Job description

A leading infrastructure services organisation requires a Sourcing Manager to support the delivery of strategic sourcing and procurement activities across a diverse range of goods, services and works categories. Applicants should have experience delivering complex procurement exercises, developing sourcing strategies, managing supplier relationships and operating within a regulated procurement environment, ideally with knowledge of the Procurement Act 2023, PCR, UCR, DSCR etc.

Working within the Group Procurement function, the Sourcing Manager will support the delivery of business procurement and category strategies, largely through the delivery of PA 23 compliant tendering and sourcing activities.

Specific duties of the Sourcing Manager include:

• Deliver complex procurements for goods, services, works contracts, frameworks and dynamic markets.
• Support the development and execution of sourcing strategies across the wider business.
• Ensure procurement activity is compliant with public sector procurement processes (PA 23)
• Work closely with stakeholders to align procurement activity with business objectives and category strategies.
• Manage sourcing projects cradle-to-grave from advertisement through to evaluation, award and contract implementation
• Develop business need assessments, market analysis and category strategies.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, supplier ecosystems and external organisations.

Sourcing Manager applicants should meet the following criteria:

• Strategic procurement expertise - sourcing, category management, negotiations
• Procurement experience within a regulated environment
• Experience of a regulated or public procurement environment, with knowledge of PA 23, PCR, UCR etc. preferred
• Ability to manage a tender/sourcing exercise, cradle-to-grave
• Excellent stakeholder partnering skills
• Comfortable with commercial and contractual issues, negotiating and managing supplier contracts
• Ability to drive change, and an eye for refining and improving procurement processes.