Procurement Manager

7 days ago

United Kingdom SKY Full time

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europes 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.

This role is an exciting opportunity to join us and work within our Group Procurement team. As a Procurement Manager, you will be assisting with the strategic sourcing direction for Enterprise Software related spend categories within Skys Group Procurement function which operates across Sky Group and now also Comcast/NBCU. The role will involve interaction with other departments at a global and local level including various Technology areas, Finance and Legal.

What you'll do:
  • Working with the Global Software and Content Licensing Procurement team to assess and deliver against Group Procurement objectives across the Group including Sky / Comcast / NBCU.
  • Supporting the team and helping to deliver local and group wide deals across diverse geographies including key markets USA, UK, Italy and Germany.
  • Contribute to Procurement strategies for the agreed Software categories.
  • Owning and leading data gathering and analytics for the team on spend information, contract data, market analysis and other required data and reports.
  • Build and maintain key partner relationships, with appropriate regular communication, ensuring clear understanding and alignment between their strategic technology plans and Procurements direction.
  • Able to handle critical issue processes across matrix teams to ensure there is good alignment.
  • Be able to produce deal documents summaries, quality presentations and reports on a regular basis at a CFO and Procurement Director level, demonstrating a flexible approach to driving financial and non-financial benefits to all business areas.
  • Provide strategic commercial input to a broad range of initiatives, including Sky-wide cost-saving programmes.
  • Through collaborating closely with the appropriate business areas, be willing to own negotiations with suppliers driving the most benefit to Sky.
  • Understand the factors and challenges faced in the IT industry and be able to use this knowledge to introduce innovation and challenge current business processes.
What you'll bring:
  • Proven Procurement experience specifically including the development of category plans and the data analysis to feed into the plans.
  • Procurement processes, knowledge and experience of running sourcing activities including RFPs and large scale renewals.
  • Good understanding of Sky, our platforms and products, and the wider driven context within which the Sky business operates.
  • Experience of working in an analyst role and within a procurement team.
  • Experience in a global / pan-European function, leading varying demands and needs within a single project.
How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Team OverviewProcurement

We bring the best from the global market into Sky - we buy technology, marketing, corporate, operational services and editorial production solutions. We are an international team working with our collaborators our partners to curate the most effective and efficient customer-led operating model. High ethical standards are embeded in our team, and we engage our supply chains in crafting a balanced future.

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
  • Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Your office base:

Osterley:

We work in a hybrid way with 3 days in the office and 2 at home. With such a large campus, there is a huge buzz on the site along with a lot of face-face collaboration which is why we feel it is important for people to be spend a few days in the office then a couple of days at home. Within that there is a lot of flexibility as to when you start/end the day.

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, EalingBroadwayand South Ealing tube stations.Theresalso plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus,youllfind 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion:wevebeen recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, andwevecommitted £30million to support the fight against racial injustice.Wevealso set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.?

At Sky wedontjust look at your CV.Weremore focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, sowe'rehappy to support you as much as we can with flexible shift patterns.

Andwe'lldo 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. Wecantwait to hear from you.

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

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