Procurement Manager Marketing Contract Negotiation London

PROCUREMENT MANAGER MARKETING

This role will cover and be responsible for leading a number of category areas within clients Marketing Procurement team. These category areas may include Digital Marketing, Market Research & Insight and Data. The role will provide key commercial support across the business and supplier base and will be responsible for the day-to-day management of suppliers. 

The key areas for this role will include:

- Supporting the strategic development of marketing procurement
- planning, creation and execution of sourcing exercises and categories planning
- leading commercial and contractual negotiations with suppliers
- planning and commercial analysis and producing high quality presentation material
- project managing sourcing activities to ensure smooth implementation across the business
- Business Intelligence (product, market, supplier and agency services)

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES (INCLUDING BUT NOT RESTRICTED TO)

- Supplier Relationship Management
- Lead commercial management, analysis and assessment of suppliers
- Develop and apply comprehensive knowledge and insight of suppliers
- Maintain skilled relationship management techniques with suppliers
- Perform supplier site visits (as required) and produce visit/audit reports
- Regularly meet suppliers to ensure well versed with market, product and service developments
- Work with suppliers with regard to minimising environmental impacts and enhancing the of environmental matters
- Manage the contractual performance levels of our suppliers
- Conduct risk assessments of procurement/supplier activities to identify all points of vulnerability and devise remedial mitigation plans
- Supplier Proposals/Commercial Operations and Contractual Negotiation
- Determine, integrate and harmonise key commercial and contractual requirements with business areas to ensure a cohesive approach
- Manage and plan all sourcing activities in advance of business requirements, liaising as necessary with business functions to ascertain requirements
- Conduct supplier negotiations, conversing with the relevant business areas
- Perform commercial analysis of supplier proposals and present succinct analysis and presentations to facilitate sound commercial judgments
- Project manage as required to ensure the smooth implementation of sourcing introductions
- Strategic Procurement
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- Drive the development of the strategic vision for procurement enabling steps to be taken to improve the operations and performance of procurement in line with best practice
- Plan and undertake strategic projects to drive forward improvements in procurement practices eg innovation, environment & ethical policies, total cost of ownership
- Conversant with end to end marketing process for category areas
- Understand business imperatives and strategies pertinent to the success of marketing and the wider business