About the role
As a Senior Sourcing Manager, you’ll be a procurement professional who has broad experience buying across IT and indirect categories, with experience of delivering value and savings through the end-to-end procurement process. The role will have 2 direct reports and will be responsible for the development and upskilling of the team, as well as working with all levels of stakeholders across the business guiding them through the changes we are looking to implement.
Our Procurement and wider Finance & Corporate Services teams all work on a hybrid basis, with two days per week from our Bristol office and the rest of the week working remotely. You’ll have the same working arrangements, with Wednesdays being a mandatory office day to ensure the teams have the opportunity to connect in person at least once a week.
Key responsibilities include:
*Day-to-day management of the procurement team.
*Application and ongoing enhancement of the procurement policy to align with best practice developments.
*Management of contracts in line with ESG principles ensuring best practice is adopted.
*Identifying and delivering sustainable savings across the supply base.
*Working collaboratively with business leaders to establish supplier plans that enable the delivery of efficiency / transformation programmes.
*Building and maintaining long-term relationships with vendors and suppliers.
*Working with Compliance to perform risk assessments on potential contracts and agreements.
*Assisting the delivery of a category management model with appropriate controls (future aspiration).
Skills & experience
*Either Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Level 5+ or a relevant degree level qualification.
*Experience influencing senior stakeholders to develop and deliver purchasing strategies.
*Experience delivering strong commercial deals across a spectrum of spend from multi-million-pound deals to deals for tens of thousands of pounds.
*Ability and experience to work with poor performing suppliers to turn the service around (in conjunction with business owners).
*Experience in identifying future savings opportunities and working with finance to deliver saving forecasts against budgeted third-party costs.
*Demonstratable leadership qualities with experience managing people.
*Ability to write and review legal documents (with referral to legal on key points).
Benefits & culture
At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.
Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We’re passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:
*Unstoppable together.
*Always learning.
*Make it count.
*Think scale.
Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.
We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:
*A competitive base salary.
*25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
*Private medical insurance.
*Life assurance 4x salary.
*Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
*A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.