Indirect Procurement Category Manager

2 weeks ago

Weybridge Surrey, United Kingdom Sony Corporation Full time

Indirect Procurement Category Manager - Marketing page is loaded Indirect Procurement Category Manager - Marketing Apply locations Weybridge time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id JR-116333

  • Do you have Indirect Procurement experience with significant Marketing Category spend?

  • Are you an excellent communicator and negotiator with fluent English language skills?

  • Are you motivated, curious and open to diverse opinions?

If so, please apply and start your journey with Sony.

In this role, you will lead spend categories within the marketing procurement area for Retail Promoters across Europe, reporting to the Head of Marketing Procurement. You should be adaptable, willing to flex to changing business needs, and open to travel.

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, influence, business sense and strategic expertise steering marketing procurement. In this highly visible role, you’ll take full ownership, from a procurement perspective, of spend categories that directly support local and European top management decisions and deliver on the bottom line.

You will:

  • Establish and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders to understand & define business requirements

  • Lead the implementation of European wide sourcing strategies in your category areas.

  • Identify, lead and collaborate with our in-country team for local sourcing projects

  • Manage strategic suppliers by monitoring performance, SLA’s and continuous improvement activities where required across your portfolio

  • Own contract information, KPI indicator data and approvals for your categories. Providing updates annually and monthly.

  • Develop and own 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 activities

You will bring:

  • Complex company background, leading indirect procurement categories within the Marketing

  • Experienced in developing, supporting and implementing European/multi country procurement strategies

  • A successful negotiator with excellent stakeholder and supplier management skills, equally focused on value for money, service quality and positive strategic outcomes

  • Numerate and logical – able to make and rationalise data-driven decisions

  • Strong customer service sense and attitude with a commercial and entrepreneurial driven mentality

Your new office

Based 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 Sony

We 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 Sony

We 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.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

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 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.

About Us Purpose

Fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology.

Values

Pioneer the future with dreams and curiosity.

Diversity

Pursue the creation of the very best by harnessing diversity and varying viewpoints.

Integrity & Sincerity

Earn the trust for the Sony brand through ethical and responsible conduct.

Sustainability

Fulfill our stakeholder responsibilities through disciplined business practices.

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