About The Role
This role in the Global Procurement Sourcing Function is within the HR, Professional Services and BPO Sourcing team, and we are looking for a candidate who has experience in the Non-IT category support areas listed above, with a particular emphasis on the HR and/or Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) categories where we have current and planned high demand for our support.
The Sourcing Manager role operates within a team of sourcing managers, responsible for shaping and executing deals across the Category.
The role will be focused on the Sourcing of Non IT services across the bank (particular emphasis on HR and/or Business Process Outsourcing categories), supporting the Category Manager and independently leading projects with the businesses and functions across the bank.
Barclays Sourcing operates a flexible alignment to categories and whilst the role is primarily aligned to one category, there will be opportunities and requirements to support and explore other categories (including other Non-IT spend areas such as Professional services, Talent Acquisition/Development, Resource Augmentation (non IT), audit/advisory), as the Team Lead requires.
The broader team are directly responsible for managing commercial deals in excess of £2b annually and are required to work collaboratively and strategically with the internal teams sitting within Procurement, Legal and SME functions, including External Suppliers, to deliver a consistently high quality product, service and minimize risk and cost to the Bank.
The role holder will provide category knowledge and sourcing support to manage commercial negotiations with third parties, liaise with key business users across Barclays to ensure favorable commercial terms which mitigate business risk. Ensuring end-to-end sourcing cycle visibility, creating line of sight on demand, cost, service and risk.
* Support the Sourcing team with the day-to-day management of key stakeholders and executing deals according to policy and agreed timelines.
Key Accountabilities
The role holder will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of deals primarily aligned to sub-category.
The role holder will be accountable for the management of end-to-end sourcing events including RFX, auctions, commercial negotiations with relevant suppliers as appropriate in conjunction with the Legal support teams to ensure consistently excellent and favorable commercial terms which always mitigate business risk for Barclays.
The role holder will be accountable for ensuring that all relevant sourcing documentation is inputted to the deal management and contract systems to be compliant with business and internal procurement policy requirements.
The role holder will be required to build and maintain a strong operational and strategic network with the category management teams to report, measure and improve on deal execution capability.
There is a genuine global dimension to the remit as well as substantial autonomy and responsibility. The role holder will be interacting at senior level both internally and externally and must possess relevant interpersonal skills.
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