Sourcing Manager Knutsford, England
Job description
Sourcing Manager
Knutsford
As a Barclays Sourcing Manager your role will be accelerating business growth through digital and data-centric business transformation, optimizing software assets, and building technology capabilities making Barclays Technology an aspirational career target. You will be Creating capacity empowering colleagues to collaborate globally, improve change and automation capability, modernize, and simplify our technology estate. You will Build strong technical foundations to protect customers, clients, colleagues, and the firm.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manage
• Developing / delivering sourcing strategies across a variety of categories and associated technical programs / projects
- Managing best-in-class Sourcing and Category practices to drive business outcomes successfully with suppliers
- Partnering with Senior Leaders across internal business units and global technology
- Targeting performance to ensure mutual success of all parties
- Ensuring all activities are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements
- Leading within our global Procurement organization
What we’re looking for:
• Broad experience and understanding of driving & delivering strategic sourcing across global technology spend in a regulated industry
- Demonstrating experience and understanding of developing and implementing category strategies with Business / Technology leadership
- Experience in key sourcing practice (category strategy, competitive tenders, commercial and legal negotiations, and supplier ecosystems
- Proven ability to operate effectively with complex processes and controls in a regulated environment
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Ability to successfully drive a variety of complex procurement projects simultaneously with multiple stakeholders
- Excellent organizational skills: analytics, planning and outcome delivery focused.
- Broad external industry focus, keen to learn and bring good practice into Barclays (CIPS / benchmarking / Networking)
- Proven ability to embrace change and supporting others to develop and drive a continuous improvement agenda
Where will you be working?
You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command Centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.
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