Principal Sourcing Manager

3 days ago


Salford Quays, United Kingdom Sopra Steria Full time

Are you an experienced Sourcing Manager looking for a change?
This is an exciting opportunity for you to join a brand new Sourcing team, supporting the Category teams with generating innovative procurement solutions.
NHS SBS provides a fully outsourced, end-to-end, operational and strategic procurement service to our clients from within the NHS and wider public sector bodies.
We can offer fantastic career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.
**What you will be doing**:

- Supports the design, build and run of SBS’s SAP Ariba
- Deploys all SAP Ariba appropriate functionality
- Helps ensure compliance with all relevant Regulations
- Is Customer (Categories) Service focussed
- Drives continuous improvement
- Supports the ongoing development and management of the Sourcing/Category Team RACI
- Helps optimise time required to undertake procurements
- Manages a portfolio of procurements and projects
- Works closely with the Category Teams to drive costs down and quality and service up
- Offers Procurement support to key internal stakeholders
- Delivers supplier/external evaluators onboarding and first line queries within the sourcing process
- Maintains high-quality, flexible, and responsive service delivery standards, ensuring sensitivity and responsiveness, balanced against cost effectiveness
- Deputise for the Senior Sourcing Manager as appropriate
- Helps mentor, support and manage the team
- Meet and assist others with time management and prioritisation, keeping to tight delivery deadlines

**What you’ll bring**:

- Public sector procurement experience and working knowledge of EU, Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) 2015 and incoming UK procurement legislation
- Excellent client facing skills and able to demonstrate the ability to describe and influence change in a positive, constructive and professional manner
- Strong leadership skills
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Experienced user of strategic sourcing tools e.g. Ariba/Jaggaer/Bravo/Atamis/ Coupa

**It would be great if you had**:

- CIPS Level 4 Advanced Diploma in Procurement and Supply or alternative comparable qualification
- PRINCE2

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you
Employment Type: Full Time Permanent
Location: Remote with occasional travel to our North West Hub in Salford Quays
Security Clearance Level: DBS
Internal Recruiter: Gem

**Salary**: £40,000 to £50,000 per annum
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

**Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company? Why not click here to learn more?**
This year we have been ranked in the top 40 large companies to work for in the UK and our unique partnership between the Department of Health and Sopra Steria means that we are market leaders in corporate service delivery with around 40% of the NHS using oneor more of our products. With unrivalled knowledge and experience, we provide high-quality, value-for-money finance, procurement and employment services to the NHS, helping them overcome any challenges they face in the back office.
Our vision is to help the NHS save money and enhance quality, providing a real-life impact where the changes we make can improve health, innovate to save lives, and deliver better outcomes.

Do you want to part of our journey?


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