Intern - Procurement

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. Full time

Please note that this role is based in the United Kingdom. In order to enable us to meet statutory and regulatory obligations of the United Kingdom immigration system you must have the appropriate immigration permission needed to work and reside in the United Kingdom._

The Global Procurement department supports Sony Pictures’ executives to buy goods & services through quick and easy processes, from the right suppliers, for the best overall value globally.

Global Procurement includes four areas; Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Operations, Travel, Strategic Alliances and Responsible Sourcing, with the bulk of the 70+ employees being based in LA. Within the Strategic Sourcing area, there are eight categories: Travel, Content Distribution Services (CDS), Corporate Services, Marketing, IT, Production and Professional Services.

In this role you will support the London based Strategic Sourcing team (5 employees), with a particular focus on the Marketing and Production Sourcing category teams. There may also be opportunities to support other category leads based in London e.g. Corporate Services Procurement (including Facilities) and Professional Services Procurement.

As the Procurement Intern, you will assist with and take ownership of a number of projects to help ensure our stakeholder’s procurement requirements are met. The projects will cover the full range of sourcing activities, including:

- Capturing stakeholder requirements
- Designing and running Request for Proposal (RFP) processes
- Engaging and negotiating with potential vendors
- Analysing and evaluating vendor proposals
- Presenting to and engaging with collaborators
- Awarding business to vendors and drafting the related contract documents.

**What you'll do**:
The projects will primarily be within the Marketing and Production category team, however there will be opportunities to assist with projects in the Professional Services and Corporate Services categories. Within the Marketing and Production category the projects will cover the following subcategories:

- Media
- Creative
- PR & Promotions
- Print
- Market Research
- Market Operations
- Production Goods
- Production Services

You will work with a wide range of stakeholders varying across internal business units (such as the Motion Picture Group (MPG) and Home Entertainment and TV Distribution) and potentially across different territories (EMEA, LATAM, North America).

**Experience you will gain**:

- Development of a strong understanding of the end-to-end procurement process
- Supporting various Request for Proposal (RFP) processes. For example capturing information from suppliers to evaluate proposals, carrying out analysis of pricing proposals, compiling decks to compare proposals etc.
- Learn to analyse Supplier Spend data
- Project management
- Delivering and assisting to deliver projects to a high standard and to varying timescales
- Specific industry and market knowledge
- Entertainment and film industry knowledge
- Specific category knowledge (e.g. marketing)
- Stakeholder management - learning to interact with a wide range of stakeholders across the business
- Across seniority levels
- Across different territories
- Negotiation skills
- Understanding of contracts
- Financial foresight e.g understanding of key cost drivers and how this impacts total cost

**What you have**:

- Research Focused and Analytical
- Curiosity to gain new knowledge and research required facts about suppliers e.g. company websites etc.
- Ability to analyse data sets (e.g. supplier proposals) to find trends and useful observations and provide options/recommendations based on the data
- Team Player
- Enjoy working with cross functional teams (e.g. Marketing, Finance, etc).
- Project Management
- Able to coordinate, priorities and deliver numerous projects to the expect quality and required timescales.
- Presentation skills
- Able to present sophisticated analysis and data to a range of stakeholders in succinct and engaging way
- Personable and Persuasive
- Being able to build and develop relationships with key stakeholders across seniority levels and being able to advise and persuade them when required.
- Finance Awareness
- Application of financial skills when carrying our procurement processes and analysing vendor proposals
- Including Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.

This position is a full time 12 month fixed term contract based in our London office and will be paid the London Living Wage.
- Sony Pictures Entertainment is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices, policies and procedures. No worker or potential worker will therefore receive less favourable treatment due to their race, age, creed, sexual orientation, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, religion, gender, marital status or Trade Union membership (if applicable)._

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