Job Description
Job Description
Global Procurement Lead Travel, Meetings & Cards - Iconic Household FTSE 100 Brand –– Location: central London - £95,000 + Car + Bonus + LTIs + Shares
This globally renowned Fortune 500 FMCG major has been delivering iconic brands to the world for over 20 years, seeing truly remarkable growth since the turn of the 21st century. With accelerated growth plans for the next decade, this multi-billion pound organisation is gearing up its procurement function to ensure it plays a pivotal part in its success moving towards 2025.
With a colossal annual spend the firm is now in need of an innovative and skilled Procurement Specialist to identify cost/productivity improvement opportunities in Travel, Meetings & Cards spending.
As a key member of the Procurement Leadership team, reporting into the VP Procurement you will be a central figure in building organisational capability and functional excellence to support growth. You will act as a Business Partner to senior internal customers and leaders across the business and understanding their business drivers and needs in the context of the company strategy.
Global Procurement Lead Travel, Meetings & Cards role profile:-
- Create and execute comprehensive global sourcing strategies for travel and meetings with clear and detailed 3-year execution plans to deliver value.
- Lead executive level supplier relationships with key suppliers to deliver value, innovation, drive performance and ESG targets.
- Making significant contributions to the wider Procurement agenda, actively participating in the Global Procurement Steering Group and Procurement Leadership Team.
- Being a credible and insightful manager to your experienced Procurement team, coaching best-practice strategic sourcing, stakeholder management, and supplier relationship management SRM.
- Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted.
- Playing a key role in the implementation of the Firm’s new P2P tool (Ariba) and wider Procurement transformation.
Required candidate background:-
- Track record of value delivery through the development of effective Category Strategy and the application of strategic sourcing methodology across air, hotel, card and meetings .
- Track record of successfully leading teams of experienced Procurement professionals at a strategic level is essential.
- Degree & MCIPS qualifications (preferred not essential).
This iconic brand rarely goes to the external market for senior positions, so this is a fantastic opportunity to join at a senior level and have a huge impact.
To find out more and apply please send your CV to g.sivarajah@bramwithconsulting.co.uk or directly through this page.