Commercial Manager
Posted 1 week ago by Totaljobs
£600 Per day
Undetermined
Undetermined
Leeds (LS1), LS1
Summary: The role of Commercial Manager involves overseeing sourcing, category management, procurement, and supplier management within a leading Insurance Company. The position requires extensive experience in supplier relationships and solution outsourcing, particularly within the Financial Services sector. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and delivering sourcing strategies and ensuring compliance with governance standards. Strong commercial acumen and influencing skills are essential for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Direct responsibility for development and delivery of sourcing and contracting strategies across a portfolio of categories, sub-categories, and suppliers.
- Accountable for the delivery of all sourcing activity, including RFX, RFP, supplier negotiations, and contracting.
- Adapt and implement Category Management as an effective and efficient process, ensuring compliance with all policies, minimum standards, and governance.
- Ensure that contractual arrangements are aligned with supplier and relationship strategies to deliver maximum commercial benefit to the organisation.
Key Skills:
- Proven track record and extensive experience of supplier relationships and solution outsourcing.
- Commercial Management experience within Financial Services.
- Ability to work independently and within an ambiguous environment.
- Significant contract, category, and risk management experience.
- Strong influencing skills.
- Strong commercial acumen.
Salary (Rate): £600 per day
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Commercial Manager - Sourcing, category management, procurement, supplier management, risk management, governance, strategy, solution outsourcing, material outsource suppliers
An amazing new opportunity has just become available to join a leading Insurance Company as a Commercial Manager as they embark on a massive integration programme
For this role you must have.
- A proven track record and extensive experience of supplier relationships and solution outsourcing
- Commercial Management experience within Financial Services
- Ability to work independently and within an ambiguous environment
- Significant contract, category and risk management experience
- Strong influencing skills
- Strong commercial acumen
Key Accountabilities
- Strategy - Direct responsibility for development and delivery of sourcing and contracting strategies across a portfolio of categories, sub-categories and suppliers which deliver best in market and innovative solutions for the business
- Sourcing - accountable for the delivery of all sourcing activity, including RFX, RFP, supplier negotiations and contracting
- Category Management and Compliance - To adapt and implement Category Management as an effective and efficient process, ensuring compliance with all policies, minimum standards and governance
- Contracting - To ensure that contractual arrangements are aligned with supplier and relationship strategies to deliver maximum commercial benefit to the organisation
Reasonable Adjustments: Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.
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