Supplier Relationship Specialist

2 weeks ago


StratforduponAvon, United Kingdom NFU Mutual Full time

**Supplier Relationship Specialist - Marketing Category**:

- A chance to manage supplier relationships across various business sectors
- An opportunity to enhance supplier management practices within NFU Mutual
- Hybrid role with up to 60% homeworking and 40% in Stratford-upon-Avon

**About the role**:
As a Supplier Relationship Specialist Marketing Category at NFU Mutual, you’ll lead, advise, and guide on the delivery of excellent supply chain performance that supports our key business outcomes and contributes to our long-term objectives. You will be responsible for establishing and continually developing partnering relationships with multiple stakeholders, managing the performance of the existing supply chain predominately within Marketing and implementing improvements to ensure delivery in terms of Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Sustainability (QCDS) outcomes. This role is crucial in minimizing risk and ensuring compliance with our policies, standards, and regulatory requirements.

In this role, you will lead supply chain performance to drive excellence and support NFU Mutual's long-term business objectives. Building and maintaining strong partnerships with stakeholders across the business and externally will be crucial, as it will help understand and meet the required service and QCDS outcomes. You will monitor and manage the performance of the supply chain, ensuring the delivery of contract value in terms of QCDS while minimizing risk and ensuring compliance with policies and regulatory requirements.

**About you**:

- Contract Management: Demonstrable experience in negotiating and managing the contract lifecycle of Marketing as a category.
- Procurement Knowledge: Understanding of procurement processes, contractual terms and conditions, and commercial risk.
- Vendor Management: Specialist knowledge of procurement and vendor management practices, including emerging trends.
- Supplier Relationship Management: Experience managing supplier relationships across multiple categories.
- Stakeholder Management: Proven experience managing stakeholders at all levels within a business.

The CIPS qualification is desirable to hold for this position.
- At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees._-
**Benefits and Rewards**:

- Salary £40,000 - £50,000 Dependent upon experience
- Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
- Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
- A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
- Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
- Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
- Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
- Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
- Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
- Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
- Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

**Working at NFU Mutual**:
We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.

**Stratford-upon-Avon**:
Tiddington Road
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 7BJ

Visit the Stratford-upon-Avon (Tiddington) office

**Vacancy managed by**:
Kam Bahra



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