Indirect Procurement Category Manager - Multi Category
Sony
Weybridge, Surrey
Permanent
Full-time
19 days ago
Do you have Indirect Procurement Category experience across a range of categories?Are you an excellent communicator and negotiator?Are you motivated, curious and open to diverse opinions?If so, please apply and start your exciting journey with Sony.In this role, you will lead take ownership of a diverse range of categories across Europe. You should be adaptable, willing to flex to consistently evolving business needs, and excited to occasionally travel to other Sony EU offices to build relationships and motivate changes.We strive to support the business and its supply base in identifying the real currencies in play when we spend, be they talent, ideas, innovation, employee satisfaction or simply price. To give them the experience and tools to maximise the value that those currencies generate.We want your vision, passion, influence, business sense and strategic expertise in steering procurement. In this highly visible role, you’ll take full ownership of spend categories that directly support local and European top management decisions and deliver on the bottom line.You’ll be part of a well-established and mature team in a genuine centre of excellence, decorated with awards, growing and fast becoming global in our horizons. Our teams use modern tools & analytics, service & delivery in-country, category management across countries and for both engineering and professional services - and the right person has the opportunity to develop into or across all areas.You will:Establish and maintain positive relationships with senior stakeholders to understand & define business requirements.Lead the implementation of EU sourcing strategies in your category areas.Identify, lead and collaborate with our in-country teams for local sourcing projects.Manage suppliers by supervising performance, SLA’s and continuous improvement activities.Own contract information, critical metric indicator data and approvals for your categories.Develop your long-range category strategy.Negotiate and lead the commercial elements of category contracts.Support central initiatives, such as our sustainability goals, for improving the efficiency of CPE platform and overall procurement activities in Europe.Develop and maintain a relationship with other category teams and Sony sister companies, where applicable, in order to find opportunities for joined procurement activitiesYou will bring:Corporate procurement within a blue-chip company, leading indirect procurement categoriesExperienced in developing, supporting and implementing procurement strategies and leading project teams at a European/multi country levelA successful negotiator with excellent stakeholder and supplier management skills, equally focused on value for money, service quality and positive strategic outcomesHighly influential and credible at the highest levelsNumerate and logical – able to make and rationalise data-driven decisionsStrong customer service sense and attitude with a commercial and entrepreneurial driven mentalityYour new officeBased at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our own Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack (useful if you’ve made the most of the Cycle-to-Work scheme), or if you will use public transport we have a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between train station and the office at peak times.Take a look at our Weybridge office here:Life at SonyWe ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!Bring your uniqueness to SonyWe are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.We are Sony Europe.Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.Disability Accommodation for applicants to Sony Europe.Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at AccommodationRequest@eu.sony.com (mailto:AccommodationRequest@eu.sony.com) or by mail to: Sony Europe B.V, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.
