Sourcing Manager - Retail & Business Operations

ENGINEERINGUK; Watford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a dynamic Sourcing Manager to join a forward-thinking company. This role involves designing and implementing sustainable procurement strategies for the National Lottery, focusing on building strong relationships with suppliers. You will leverage your procurement expertise to lead negotiations, manage vendor relationships, and drive continuous improvements. Collaborating with various teams, you'll ensure compliance with organizational goals while promoting sustainability within the supply chain. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a vibrant environment, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing procurement strategies and vendor negotiations.
• Ability to engage stakeholders and manage multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement projects and develop effective strategies.
• Negotiate contracts and manage vendor relationships.
• Ensure compliance with procurement policies and sustainability goals.

Skills

Procurement Experience

Negotiation Skills

Vendor Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field

Tools

RFP Management Tools

Procurement Software

Job description

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Sourcing Manager - Retail & Business Operations

This is an exciting opportunity for a high energy Retail & Business Operations Sourcing Manager to join our growing procurement team to help design and implement the sustainable procurement strategy and processes for the National Lottery for the next 10 years, in line with Allwyn's Social Value framework, as we start to build relationships with new and existing National Lottery suppliers.

Using your procurement experience, and leveraging your knowledge, you will work directly with the Retail & Business Operations team at all levels of Allwyn. In this role, you will be expected to develop & deliver an effective procurement strategy and conduct activities such as RFPs, effective negotiations of commercials & agreements, and ongoing vendor management to deliver continuous savings, performance & process improvement for the above categories.

• Act as a trusted adviser, and subject matter expert, leading Retail & Business Operations sourcing and procurement projects. These projects often involve working across multiple products.
• Lead and own a full range of projects from transactional to complex, spanning all types of categories across Allwyn.
• For individual procurement projects build, communicate, and implement work plans and timelines. Identify the required supporting efforts, dependencies, or barriers, as well as track and report on progress/issues.
• Deliver sustainable value by leading negotiations with vendors on the scope of work, commercials & contract, which will involve working with legal, finance, tax and other internal departments.
• Be a strategic partner to Retail & Business Operations throughout the sourcing process.
• Build and maintain vendor relationships to maximize value and to deliver a best-in-class supply chain across multiple spend categories.
• Partner with Retail & Business Operations team to build, moderate to complex service requirements and scope, assist with identifying vendors, manage the entire RFx process, provide vendor evaluation framework and recommendations on vendor selection.

The ideal candidate will be able to manage multiple time-sensitive requests, effectively engage stakeholders within all levels of management, including executive leadership and efficiently ensure the sustainable sourcing process is completed consistently with Allwyn UK policies and goals.

This includes driving procurement compliance, managing commercial risk, delivering fair costs for the organization, negotiating regional agreements including prices and terms, and integrating sustainability within the supply chain.

The jobholder should be able to embrace ambiguity, meanwhile generating close collaboration across teams and constantly evolving sustainable procurement approaches which fully address procurement challenges and solve complex business problems.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand and capture the detailed requirements of each business objective, requiring third party contracting.
• Drafting supply and service schedules for inclusion in the RFP and contracts.
• Source third parties who can meet the requirements, and conduct initial research to create a short list.
• Run the RFP process, co-ordinating supplier pitches, with the right internal stakeholders.
• Follow process outlines by procurement and supply procurement team with the relevant data and detail to meet internal governance requirements.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure all relevant stakeholders feed in requirements and are part of the selection.
• Understand the process to extend or novate a contract.
• Work to award and appoint new suppliers.
• Contract negotiations and drafting of commercial terms alongside Legal.
• You will also support the Social Value team in maintaining a positive and collaborative culture across the wider team.
• Continually assess and promote sustainable and responsible procurement, in line with Allwyn's Social Value framework, including social, cultural and diversity values in the organisation and throughout the supply chain.