Head of Group Property Procurement

4 months ago


Osterley, United Kingdom Sky Full time

Procurement

Our vision for Procurement is to deliver the best possible supplier contracts and relationships over the short & longer term (cost, quality, risk, availability, innovation, sustainability), via
- Understanding of business strategy & stakeholder plans through strong relationships
- Intimate knowledge of a category’s suppliers & market developments, reflected in great category plans
- Supplier management & negotiation experience/ expertise (leveraging our Enterprise/Regional scale & prestige)
- We leverage our global scale to deliver locally

Procurement is organised as an Enterprise-wide function across Comcast, including Sky, Cable and NBCU, with c.200 colleagues in London, Milan, Munich, Philadelphia, New York, LA, Bangalore and Chenai. We split the team between Strategic Sourcing, and Digital Enablement & Compliance.

The Corporate and Business team is part of the Enterprise Procurement function, reporting into Comcast. We’ve evolved Procurement to better leverage our spend with Comcast (combined spend $19bn) and across Sky markets. This combined approach will enable our people to potentially work on projects relating to Comcast, NBCU as well as Sky specific matters.

The Role

As Head of Group Property Procurement you will be creating and leading the strategic sourcing direction within Sky’s Group Procurement function which operates across Sky Group, Comcast and NBCU. The role will involve managing a team and interaction with business units at a group level across the Sky Group and engaging with stakeholders in Comcast & NBCU.

What You’ll do:
Be a leader in delivering Procurement’s objectives
- Work with and report to the Corporate and Business Services Director to deliver against Group Procurement objectives across the Sky Group, Comcast and NBCU.
- Own category spend of $300m, develop spend strategies together with stakeholders, lead execution and be accountable for results.
- Manage category of spend, runs multiple deals simultaneously with increased complexity, manages stakeholders pro-actively, and sets out longer term plan
- Leads on larger more complex commercials/ negotiations
- Provide strategic commercial input to a broad range of initiatives, including Sky-wide cost-saving programmes
- Demonstrate a flexible approach to driving financial and non-financial benefits to all business areas
- Have an in-depth understanding of the factors and challenges in the wider market that have an impact on the categories under management and be able to use this knowledge to introduce innovation and challenge current business processes.
- Be capable of evaluating options against all relevant factors i.e. technical, commercial, logístical, risk etc and recommending the best option to the business
- Help develop and deliver procurement initiatives and best practice, including support for the wider Group procurement vision.
- Defines process for most complex situations & drive improvement

Partner with our stakeholders
- Be able to build, maintain and influence senior stakeholder relationships ensuring clear alignment between strategic business plans and Procurement’s direction.
- Be able to work closely with procurement and business colleagues across the wider Group, including teams in Italy, Germany and USA.
- Work closely and proactively with senior business leaders to identify new savings opportunities and drive meaningful multi-year efficiencies across spend managed.
- Through liaising with the appropriate business areas, lead negotiations with key strategic suppliers at a global and local level driving the most benefit to Sky.
- In collaboration with business stakeholders, lead on major supplier negotiations demonstrating an in-depth understanding of key business drivers
- Manages relationships across multiple business units/ Comcast entities

Manage and develop a high performing team
- Manage and develop a team of procurement professionals cross-territory, guiding them on strategy, category plans and day to day activities.
- Organise team to key stakeholder groups, categories and suppliers ensuring team are best placed to execute and prioritise procurement plans in line with overall objectives.
- Act as role model to team in line with Sky’s behaviours

What you'll bring:
Industry / Procurement Experience
- Proven Procurement experience in Facilities, Property, Utilities and Real Estate related category areas (Essential)
- Bachelors Degree or Equivalent (Desirable)
- Procurement qualification (e.g. CIPS) (Desirable)

Skills & Behaviours
- Highly motivated professional with a proactive approach
- Excellent relationship building/management skills
- Excellent negotiating skills and commercial acumen
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, adapting style to communicate & influence across multiple levels
- Excellent organisational and presentational skills
- Excellent prioritisation and project management skills
- Excellent decision making on more complex & demanding issue



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