Senior Procurement Manager

2 months ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Sky Group Full time
Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe's leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

We are looking to grow our Business and Corporate Procurement team by bringing in a Senior Procurement Manager - Group Energy into our team in the UK.

Procurement

The Procurement team spans Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky, proactively managing a trusted supplier network across the globe to protect our business and drive long-term value. We utilize expertise, scale, and a deep-rooted understanding of our business to navigate the global marketplace - balancing value, risk, and social responsibility to deliver for our clients, our suppliers, and the communities we serve. Our team accelerates transformation and innovation by bringing together the right people, products and services and create the technologies and experiences that our brands are known for. We create connections across Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky to generate greater value for our business and opportunities for our teammates - today, and in the future.

What You'll do

As a Senior Procurement Manager, you will leverage the depth and breadth of your industry expertise to establish and drive the strategic direction for Energy, utilities, Power Purchase agreements and net zero/Carbon reduction projects.

The role will involve cross-functional partnerships across Europe, leveraging our global scale to drive optimal commercials, supplier partnerships, innovation, and establish deals that meet the long-term business strategy.
  • Lead the delivery of large, complex agreements that form part of the Energy portfolio: Power Purchase agreements, utilities hedging, carbon reduction and offset projects across the Sky Group.
  • Engage with Sky Group wider team to deliver the wider Sky Group/Comcast Group Carbon reduction targets/goals.
  • Engage with senior stakeholders providing advice and engagement.
  • Come up with your own ideas on how Sky can best become efficient and use new technologies that could transform the operation of Sky/Comcast.
  • Represent Sky externally to the market on Energy, share your expertise and knowledge inside and outside Sky.
  • Knowledge of Carbon accounting, Carbon offsets, SBTi & other measures in sustainability is a plus.
  • Manage source to contract process for services in this area.
  • Lead on negotiations with new and incumbent vendors
  • Analyse 3rd party spend of unaddressed areas, identify saving opportunities, and develop sourcing strategies to address.
  • Support development and implementation of structured stakeholder management and supplier relationship management (e.g., balanced scorecards, review mechanism)
  • work closely with Procurement and business colleagues across the wider Group, including teams in Italy, Germany, and the US
  • Leverage a deep understanding of the factors, dynamics, and challenges across the category to structure, establish, and drive category strategies that leverage our global scale and skills across Sky. This experience will enable you to lead associated category initiatives (such as RFx), including understanding and communicating industry trends, selecting vendors and driving associated negotiations at the most senior level both internally and externally, and executing optimal contracts.
  • Develop and manage an ecosystem of strategic suppliers to achieve optimal partnerships to drive and deliver tangible results.
  • Mitigate risks associated with the current market and trends.
  • Deliver defined savings targets and cost transformation programs across all spend categories under management, leveraging synergy opportunities across the wider organization with a vigorous approach towards TCO. Work closely and proactively with the business to identify new savings opportunities and efficiencies across managed spend. Drive standardized and centralized reporting (e.g. pricing, volumes, spend, savings, contracts, quarterly business reviews, etc.), support relevant category initiatives and coordinate with key stakeholders to drive global contracting across Sky.
  • Have the ability to interface and influence across categories and companies. Build, maintain, and influence stakeholder relationships across Sky & Comcast to ensure clear alignment between procurement and wider business planning.
What you'll bring:
  • Industry Expert: The depth and breadth of expertise within the given category.
  • Matrix Environment : The experience of building and leading a team in a matrix environment and developing and driving a team to success.
  • Strategic Leadership: The ability to establish and drive the strategic direction for critical categories on a global basis, and to execute sub-initiatives under such higher-level strategy, and to lead various team members.
  • Innovative Mindset: The natural inclination to evaluate and challenge business-as-usual practices with an open-minded, always learning, and proactive mindset, informed by a deep understanding of the factors and challenges across the software landscape.
  • Relationship Management Skills: The ability to collaborate with others and build relationships across multiple business units across international geographies.
  • Company-Minded: The lean-in and hands-on attitude of an owner, not a renter, with high standards for work performance, the commitment to always do the right thing, and the vision to maximize procurement's contribution to the wider company's goals and objectives.
The Rewards

There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
  • Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
  • A generous pension package
  • Private healthcare
  • Discounted mobile and broadband
Where you'll work

SKY HQ Osterley UK

Inclusion

Recognised as an 'Inclusive Top 50 Employer' and a 'Times Top 50 Employer for Women', we're working hard to ensure we're a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don't just look at your CV. We're more focused on who you are and the potential you'll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, So we're happy to discuss flexible working.

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can't wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.

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