Senior Procurement Manager Full Time

Merton, London
Sky
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As one of the Senior Procurement Managers for Global Software and Content Licensing you will establish and drive the strategic direction for software within Sky’s Group Procurement function which operates across Sky Group, Comcast and NBCU. The role will involve developing a team and interaction with business units at a global level including various Product and Technology areas, Finance and Legal.

What you’ll do:

• Work with and report to the Global Software and Content Licensing Director to deliver against Group Procurement objectives across the Sky Group, Comcast and NBCU.
• Leverage a good understanding of the factors, dynamics, and challenges across software to structure, establish, and drive category strategies that demonstrate our global scale and skills across Sky. This experience will enable you to lead associated category initiatives (such as RFx), including understanding and communicating industry trends, selecting vendors and driving associated negotiations at the most senior level both internally and externally, and implementing optimal contracts.
• Develop and manage an ecosystem of strategic suppliers to achieve optimal partnerships to drive and deliver tangible results.
• Mitigate risks associated with the current market and software trends.
• Deliver defined savings targets and cost transformation programs across all spend categories under management, improving alliance opportunities across the wider organisation with a diligent approach towards TCO. Work closely and proactively with the business to identify new savings opportunities and efficiencies across managed spend.
• Drive standardised and centralised reporting ( pricing, volumes, spend, savings, contracts, quarterly business reviews, etc.), support relevant category initiatives and coordinate with key partners to drive global contracting across Sky.
• Have the ability to interface and influence across categories and companies. Build, maintain, and influence partner relationships across Sky to ensure clear alignment between procurement and wider business planning.
• Lead a team of procurement professionals, support them on strategy, category plans and day to day activities to ensure they are seen as a trusted advisor to our business partners. Allocating and prioritising projects and mapping team members to key partner groups.

What you’ll bring:

• Industry Specialist: The depth and breadth of expertise in software.
• Strategic Leadership: Extensive experience in establishing and driving the strategic direction for critical categories on a global basis, and to implement sub-initiatives under such higher-level strategy, and to lead team members.
• Innovative attitude: The natural inclination to evaluate and challenge business-as-usual practices with an open-minded, always learning, and proactive approach, advised by a deep understanding of challenges across the software landscape.
• Relationship Leadership Skills: To collaborate with others and establish relationships across multiple business units across international geographies.
• Company-Minded: The lean-in and hands-on positive outlook of an owner, not a renter, with high standards for work performance, the commitment to always do the right thing, and the vision to improve procurement’s contribution to the wider company’s goals and objectives.

Team Overview

Procurement

We bring the best from the global market into Sky – we buy technology, marketing, corporate, operational services and editorial production solutions. We are an international team working with our partners to curate the most effective and efficient customer-led operating model. High ethical standards are embeded in our team, and we engage our supply chains in creating a sustainable future.

The Rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about . Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you’ll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You’ll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

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