
Senior Manager, Global Procurement
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Supplier sourcing, negotiations and contracting for multiple spend categories in the HR, Benefits and Recruiting Industries
- Leading a team on Procurement professionals engaged in supplier management, sourcing and negotiations, and overall improvement of service delivery
- Initiation, development and management of strategic relationships with senior Deloitte internal business unit leaders
- Develop and implement master category strategies for global impact across the Deloitte member firms and geographies
- Highly organized with excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Global leadership for one or more master category strategies for the Talent and HR industries
- Leadership of key strategic relationships in both the EMEA region and globally
- Recruit, supervise and professionally develop other Procurement team members
- Independently source, spend and negotiate contracts while simultaneously guiding other team members
- Advise Procurement leadership on key trends and strategic decisions
- Ability to collaborate across the Deloitte Member firms and within Global Procurement
- Manage categories proactively based on internal/external trends and data and be able to communicate effectively to enable informed decisions by leadership
- Manage spend and activity data from multiple sources ensuring high accuracy and timely delivery to identify trends, gaps and opportunities
- Monitor supplier performance based on metrics and update on internal/external trends
- Ability to respond to inquiries from leadership and stakeholders with accuracy and timeliness
- Assess new opportunities for continuous improvement through new technologies and process enhancements
- Assist global category leadership in managing supplier and internal customer relationships to improve internal client satisfaction
- Degree required
- Relevant experience in procurement, preferably sourcing HR and Talent related categories, or equivalent
- Relationship building, influencing, and collaboration skills
- Experience in managing teams
- Project management or equivalent experience
- Program management or equivalent experience
- Ability to engage with senior executives to influence decisions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Persuasive and convincing communication skills (e.g., proposals, reports, plans) to secure commitment from business leaders
- Strong knowledge of standard Category Execution process
- Strong understanding of common sourcing templates, tools, and methodologies
- Deep knowledge of the Master Category Strategy approach
- Ability to interpret member firm needs and commercial strategies as input into the category strategy
- Working independently in an unstructured environment; developing structure and clarity around the ambiguous by taking a concept and developing ideas/about solutions to achieve progress
- Being self-directed in identifying what has to get done and in doing it with minimal direction
- Using good judgment about when to ask for direction and when to act independently
- Navigating through complex collaborative initiatives
- Understanding, documenting, and improving business processes
- Organization, task planning and setting/meeting deadlines
- Working under tight time constraints, juggling multiple priorities
- Interacting with internal clients and stakeholders at both junior and senior levels of the organization