Leading financial services client are seeking several candidates with broad end to end sourcing skillsets. Your new company
Our client are a household name in the financial services space, who have recently undergone a significant phase of positive transformation within the procurement function. As a result of a high profile project being undertaken, an opportunity has arisen for several senior sourcing professionals to join their function and sit across key spend portfolios.
Your new role In this role, you will be responsible for the delivery of end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives within your defined category portfolio. From conception through to contract execution, you will be tasked with driving commercially beneficial and business critical outcomes and also need to manage associated risk. Key roles and responsibilities will include:

Devise and execute end to end, high value strategic sourcing events across your assigned portfolio of indirect spend
Align the sourcing strategy and execution pipeline with the overall category strategy, aligning with the category leadership teams and relevant business stakeholders.
Foster positive, long term strategic relationships with broad groups of stakeholders through organisation
Proactive management of your portfolio, including management of contract expiry and sourcing pipeline
The more senior positions (there are multiple available) will have 1-2 direct reports

What you'll need to succeed To be considered for this role, you will be an established senior sourcing professional with demonstrated experience operating in a highly structured corporate environment. You will bring either a broad variety of indirect category experience, or otherwise, an intricate understanding of a more defined set of categories. You will be a strong communicator, with the ability to influence and collaborate with interna and external stakeholders to drive commercial and business outcomes, and ideally, for the more senior of the positions, come with prior people management experience in a procurement context. Candidates with experience across technology and non-technology portfolios (or both) will be in a position to be considered. What you'll get in return
These are excellent opportunities to step into a key strategic role within a top tier procurement function, in a top 10 ASX organisation. The function is mainly composed of long-term stayers, and you would be surrounded by a variety of the best procurement professionals in the industry day in, day out. You will have the opportunity to be a key player, lead key strategic sourcing projects, across considerable spend and a diverse group of vendors and suppliers.

The package for the role will be around $170-180k + super with a bonus to be paid based on company performance on top of that. The role is based in the CBD, with 2 days a week working from home flexibility as standard. A variety of roles are currently available with this client, so if you feel you fit the brief, please feel free to reach out today.
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The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) is the world’s leading integrated producer of concentrated phosphate and potash—two of the three most important nutrients in agriculture. We employ more than 13,000 people in six countries to serve farmers all over the world. Our Headquarters is in Lithia, Florida with operations throughout North America (U.S./Canada) and South America.

At Mosaic We Help the World Grow the Food it Needs - Apply today and join our team! 

Strategic Sourcing Manager, Corporate Procurement IT

Where will you work: Hybrid (Wednesday's/Friday's remote) with an option to work a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off- 13830 Circa Crossing Drive | Lithia, Florida 33547

As a strategic sourcing manager of corporate IT procurement, you will develop and implement improved strategic sourcing policies for our IT contracts. Every day you will create cost estimates, forecasts, negotiate cost-effective contracts with key suppliers, and oversee our sourcing team in their mission to create higher profit margins and competitive advantage in the agriculture industry. You will thrive in this role if you demonstrate sound knowledge of negotiation strategies and extensive experience in information technology supply chain and/or procurement.

What you’ll do?

• Develop procurement strategies in conjunction with the key BU leaders and stakeholders. (Business Strategy Development)

• Provide center-led direction on company practices, policy and procedure in the procurement area.

• Conduct training and information meetings.

• Communicate internal control and compliance requirements and monitor demand-to-settle process performance. (Process Optimization and Internal
  Controls)

• Track and report Supplier scorecards, KPIs, and performance measures.

• Conduct regular Supplier Performance and Alliance Relationship review meetings.

• Develop, monitor, and review supplier contracts to ensure supplier performance, user adoption and compliance. (Contract Management and Strategic
  Sourcing Processes)

• Collect, analyze and monitor requirements and specific information on category and supplier spend, standards, specifications, and industry
  benchmarks. (Industry Knowledge)

• Perform value-engineering analyses and purchasing guidance in conjunction with the key stakeholders to effect cost optimization for the corporation
  for materials and services. (Supplier Rationalization/Consolidation)

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, finance or related field

• 5+ years relevant professional or managerial experience in business

• 5+ years procurement experience specifically including souring, contract negotiations and vendor management

• 5+ years negotiating complex technology contracts including software, SaaS, hardware, cloud computing, and professional services with a preference for
  expertise with AWS, Oracle and key SaaS providers.

• Prior project management experience

• Demonstrated experience driving procurement KPIs to deliver results

• Proven experience in developing and implementing cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives and Supplier partnering Experienced-to-Advanced

• MS Office products including MS Access

• Exceptional leadership skills with a customer-centric attitude

• Demonstrated history of solid finance, quantitative and analytical skills

• Demonstrated mastery in building and maintaining interpersonal relationships at all levels of the organization

• Proven ability to negotiate substantial and complex contracts

Bonus points if you have the following:

• CPM, CPSM, or CPSD certification

• Ariba, Fieldglass, Maximo, SAP

What's in it for you:

• An attractive base salary + an annual incentive 

• 11 paid holidays each year 

• 401k with a company match and annual company contributions 

• Paid sick leave for when you need it 

• Paid vacation (commensurate with work experience)

• A robust benefits package which includes Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance 

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End Date

Thursday 21 March 2024

Salary Range

£57,546 - £63,940

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Agile Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

At Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), our vision is to be the best bank for our customers. By putting customers first, keeping banking simple and making a difference together, we're helping Britain prosper. We're constantly evolving our business and IT platform teams around our ambition to drive growth. All motivated by our next chapter and what we can achieve together.

In Group Sourcing and Supplier Management (GS&SM), we play a pivotal role in delivering this vision, through closely working with our stakeholders and supplier network to deliver value at pace and scale. It's a phenomenal time of change and transformation within the Group and the GS&SM teams are at the heart of that change. Not only that, but it’s a great place to work. We have a strong culture and set of values where we look to live the core values of putting people first, being bold, being inclusive and trusting each other all whilst championing sustainability in all that we do.

But what makes the Bank and in particular the GS&SM organisation special? Without a doubt it is the people and culture. Working for GS&SM you will be supported by knowledgeable colleagues. We are also strong advocates for Inclusion and Diversity.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Manager Sourcing - IT (Procurement)
LOCATION: Bristol, Birmingham, Edinburgh or Halifax
SALARY: £57,500 - £63,900
HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in the office.

About this opportunity

As an IT sourcing manager in procurement, you’ll lead delivery of sourcing category strategies and projects and aligned supplier management activities. You’ll build strong relationships with suppliers and stakeholders to influence business priorities and understand future trends and requirements.

Role responsibilities:

• Operating as a member of IT sourcing team, you will be reporting to Senior Sourcing Manager and work with a team of experienced technology sourcing professionals, contributing to the ongoing development of the vision and purpose, supporting the continued advancement of the function

• Managing the end to end of sourcing activity and commercial negotiations for applicable activity, ensuring delivery of the most optimal solution from a customer, commercial, technology and risk perspective.

• Developing and nurturing critical relationships with key partners, driving commercial thinking by challenging what we have always done in order to deliver greater commercial value for the organisation.

• Managing and delivering required outcomes for a portfolio of contracts, while planning, coordinating and supervising activities related to major contracts, within established procurement procedures and risk management systems.

• Maintaining an effective and up to date understanding of the technology supply market.

• Being a results orientated, commercially minded technology sourcing manager who is able to demonstrate a track record of success in fast paced, dynamic business environment; with evidence of enabling cloud transformation at scale in a dynamic sourcing environment, this will be the ideal opportunity for you to continue your personal and professional development.

• Growing own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities.

What you'll need

Are you someone who is passionate about IT Sourcing (procurement)? We’d love to hear from you. We value the following:

• Validated IT sourcing experience

• Demonstrable negotiation and influencing skills and capability

• Being highly risk conscious and appreciation of all aspects of operational, commercial and contractual risks

• Technology sourcing expertise with a specific depth of knowledge and experience of IT services, software, and technology categories

• Experience in developing and delivering to sourcing plans and strategies and supporting business areas on projects with varying degrees of complexity.

• Strong analytical and communication skills

• Excellent relationship management skills

• Being an advocate of good sourcing principles, tools and techniques.

• An upbeat, resilient, and adaptable style, which can be evidenced by success in constantly evolving environment

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. 

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!

 

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Loews Hotels & Co is a leading owner and operator of luxury hotels with a portfolio consisting of 26 hotels and resorts in the United States and Canada. Located in major city centers and resort destinations from coast to coast, the Loews portfolio features one-of-a-kind properties that go beyond Four Diamond standards and embrace their “uniquely local” community in order to curate exciting, approachable and local travel experiences for guests.

This position provides sourcing & contracting direction and leadership in a high-volume, multi-state environment. This position is responsible for developing and maintaining strong partnerships with key internal stakeholders to define requirements for the procurement of critical hardware, services, equipment, and software. This position must compile critical RFPs, identify suppliers, and negotiate advantageous contractual terms for Loews Hotels. This position will work closely with various information technology & governance professionals to create and execute sourcing strategies and contracts. This position will act as a strategic partner who listens to and understands business needs, provides expertise in planning and implementing sourcing initiatives, and focuses on project timelines and deliverables to meet business goals and objectives.

By leveraging best practices and sound processes, this position will drive the sourcing, contract, and negotiation process with suppliers from the initial planning, research, RFP through bid analysis, negotiation of product quality, price, contract terms and execution of agreements that result in successful outcomes that support the needs of our corporate office and hotels. This position will monitor the supplier's continual performance of first-in-class services, timely delivery of products, out-of-stocks, and substitute items. This position will ensure that the supplier meets contract commitments and that our internal partners' needs are met.

The Strategic Sourcing Manager -Information & Technology will regularly interact with suppliers and stakeholders at the various levels of the organization to include, procurement, payment services, legal, information technology, IT security and compliance, risk management and finance team members. The Strategic Sourcing Manager-Information & Technology reports to the Assistant Director, Hotel Acquisition & Operating Analytics.

• Build/establish and maintain relationships with financial, operational, and IT internal stakeholders to ensure complete understanding and support of sourcing initiatives.
• Build and maintain supplier relationships; hold suppliers accountable for performance, quality and delivery of contractual commitments
• Conducts supplier quarterly performance reviews, bid evaluations, product contract reviews, and evaluation of products
• Proactively assess sourcing opportunities by gathering IT spend data, evaluating category purchasing patterns, economics, market conditions, and expiring contracts to make recommendations based on these findings
• Leverage e-Business tools such as RFP sourcing tools, spend analysis, supplier intelligence, competitive bidding, and contract management.
• Acquire and maintain a technical understanding of services/products sourced.
• Lead and execute the sourcing, negotiation, and pricing strategy for multiple supplier agreements simultaneously in a national, multi-location, and single-location environment.
• Preparation and creation of RFPs, identify and select all viable suppliers in accordance with Loews standards, evaluate and present vendor RFP responses to executive leadership, , conduct supplier negotiations, and provide business case recommendations
• Responsible for contract execution in coordination with Legal and project management through delivery of goods and services.
• Manages Information Technology (IT) service and supply contract terminations and renewals and ensures optimal contract terms and coverage.
• Establish sourcing strategies which include evaluating sourcing alternatives, identifying the sourcing approach, and establishing a project plan/timeline to deliver an effective sourcing solution
• Create detailed project plans, timelines, and critical date benchmarks to ensure the timely execution of business needs
• Reading, interpreting, understanding, and communicating technology contract terms.
• Identify, track and report annual savings achieved, spending compliance compared to budget, and present to Assistant Director, Hotel Acquisition & Operating Analytics & IT Leadership
• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
• Communicate status updates on all initiatives to the Asst. Director, Hotel Acquisition &Operating Analytics & IT Leadership, and promptly request help when needed to remove roadblocks
• Prepare and present PowerPoint presentations to leadership
• May be required to work varying schedules to reflect business needs

The individual must possess the following knowledge, skills, and abilities and be able to explain and demonstrate that they can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation:

Required:

• 5+ years of relevant Technology sourcing/procurement experience, especially IT hardware and software.
• Strong analytical, business process analysis, and problem-solving capabilities
• Skilled with technology-based systems, including spend analytics and e-procurement tools
• Advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Exceptional written and verbal communication/interpersonal skills,
• Exceptional presentation communication skill
• Ability to interpret specifications and use sound judgment to make business decisions
• Effective time management and organizational skills
• High motivation and results-oriented work ethic
• Willingness to learn and understand sourcing best practices
• Supply chain knowledge
• Technical sourcing process knowledge
• Advanced knowledge of IT sourcing & procurement techniques, tools, practices, and principles
• Ability to conduct analyses required during a sourcing initiative
• Ability to build strong relationships with suppliers
• Ability to manage more than one initiative at once
• Strong attention to detail and process orientation
• Ability to perform analysis and interpret the results into actionable steps
• Comfortable with a constantly evolving environment
• Team player, self-starter, and quick learner with interpersonal and solution-oriented attitude and an ability to effectively operate with high energy and flexibility in a fast-paced cross-functional environment; able to prioritize tasks and projects accordingly.
• Keen analytic, organizational, and problem-solving skills that enable sound decision making
• Mid-Level Excel, PowerPoint & Word Skills
• Knowledge & Use of Smartsheet

Preferred:

· RFP Software Platform Experience

Who we are

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (Crédit Agricole CIB) is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 10th largest bank by total assets.

Our Singapore center (“ISAP” or “Information Systems Asia Pacific”), with approximately 1,600 employees, is a major division at the heart of the Crédit Agricole CIB Singapore branch. It is the second platform in size for IT development and support, after that of Paris, serving all the activities of Crédit Agricole CIB's business lines. ISAP also hosts a global KYC platform processing data from CACIB customers around the world.

We work daily with all entities in Credit Agricole CIB network, particularly those in the Asia Pacific - Middle East region. The key roles and missions of ISAP are:

• Imagining and preparing the Bank's future information systems in order to meet the needs of internal users and serve CACIB large corporate and financial institutions, as well as providing the tools necessary for the management of the bank to control its risks and monitor its commercial and financial performance,
• Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects,
• Providing premium in-house Banking applications

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market. We seek innovative Providing premium in-house Banking applications.

Position

The COO Office supports ISAP in developing and steering the overall strategy and agenda for Sourcing (Talent Acquisition; Personnel administration; Outsourcing), Finance, Permanent control, General administration, Procurement and Communication.

This involves working with IT departments (Application development & Support, IT Infrastructure) and several stakeholders within CACIB ISAP to contribute to strategic transformation initiatives in a challenging and multicultural environment.

The head of IT sourcing is responsible for elaborating the ISAP IT capacity strategy – including structural and salary trajectory forecasting integrating multiple criteria – in collaboration with the Executive & Strategic committee and implementing it by leveraging on a talented squad:

• Talent acquisition (TA) team (internal sourcing; recruitment coordination)
• Personnel administration and application support

Embedded into the global CACIB IT strategy, ISAP also support the IT’s offshore and outsourcing strategy over its lifecycle (definition, plan, implementation, follow-up) through Quality Monitoring, Supplier Management and Risk Management.

The head of sourcing will also manage the Sourcing global coordination team acting as a main participant into the global IT outsourcing risk framework, in the global sourcing definition and transformation project.

This position reports directly into the CACIB ISAP COO with a strong exposure both to the local executive committee and Paris Headquarters.

Main Responsibilities

Manage local sourcing function and lead transformation

• Develop and lead a comprehensive TA strategy, manage resources, and drive smooth execution of hiringactivities against pre-defined SLAs and KPIs. Focus on delivering an exceptional candidate experienceat every touchpoint during the recruitment proces
• Foster a high-performance culture, motivate team members, and promote professional development.Mentor the TA leadership team to set goals and define performance metrics. Coach team members toensure continuous improvement and individual growth
• Drive the implementation of best practices in talent acquisition to attract diverse, high-quality candidates.Collaborate with stakeholders to understand talent needs and develop effective recruitment strategies
• Utilize data-driven insights and metrics to assess the effectiveness of talent acquisition strategies andmake data-informed decisions. Develop and maintain recruitment analytics dashboards to track keyperformance indicators, recruitment costs, and time-to-fill metrics

Act as the main Personnel Administration Business Partner (external staff)

• Administers contracts operations processes in the areas of on-boarding & off-boarding, work passmanagement, data management, benefits administration and employee life cycle management incollaboration with our staffing partners
• Ensure accuracy and control of engagements through high quality professional fees invoice processing
• Ensure the maintenance of contractors’ files, ensuring accuracy, compliance and confidentiality
• Manage training applications
• Manage staff related application support (Time tracking; Leave management…)
• Prepares reporting at regular interval or on ad hoc basis (Sourcing mix; Compensation status; StaffAttrition…)
• Ensure the best staff experience from an administration & information standpoint

Outsourcing Sourcing control

• Work closely with our offshore providers and local activity managers to follow-up the sourcing controlplan
• Supervise the collection and analysis of provider’s data to assess their compliance to CA-CIB normsand standards; Control that outsourced structures respect the mandatory processes
• Participate in the offshore transformation roadmap
• Participate in governance meetings to monitor the risks and assess the quality of the collaborationbetween onshore and offshore
• Define, promote and enforce operating guidelines and best practices

Qualifications and Profile

• Good understanding and practical application of Talent Acquisition trends as well as local employment law
• Proven track record of leading and managing teams of professionals and leaders
• Proven track record in working with Senior Leaders and demonstrated ability to challenge whilst maintaining a constructive relationship at all levels
• Proven track record of Risk control management
• Analytical & result-oriented minded with problem solving ability
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), Collaborative, agile and resourceful
• Comfortable in operating in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment
• Strong mindset for continuous improvement and service excellence
• Autonomy, adaptability and willingness to learn
• Bachelor’s degree in Management from a top school or university
• Proficiency in MS Office, Strong Powerpoint, MS Excel (VBA/Automation experience would be a plus), Power BI
• Experience with Applicant Tracking System and HR Information system

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• Able to Work on Weekends

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• Any other tasks or duties assigned.

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• Relevant Experiences in Aircon or Cold Room
• Possess Class 3 License
• Able to Work on Weekends

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