Procurement Manager

3 weeks ago

Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Canada Life Limited Full time
Job Title: Procurement Manager

Canada Life Limited is seeking a skilled Procurement Manager to join our team. As a key member of our Procurement and Supplier Governance team, you will play a critical role in driving strategy and managing our suppliers to extract maximum value for the organization.

Job Purpose:

The Procurement Manager will be responsible for leading the creation and delivery of procurement category plans that achieve or exceed agreed annual savings targets. This will involve seeking alternative opportunities to current specifications and demand parameters, as well as challenging the status quo and applying advanced analytical thinking to drive the most appropriate business outcomes.

Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Lead the creation and delivery of procurement category plans that achieve or exceed agreed annual savings targets.
  • Challenge the status quo and apply advanced analytical thinking to drive the most appropriate business outcomes.
  • Constantly monitor the supply market and identify opportunities resulting from new product/service offerings and/or market shifts.
  • Ensure continuous alignment and communication with relevant businesses/functions on category development and decisions.
  • Lead supplier sourcing reviews (RFI, RFX, RFP) on behalf of business owners, negotiate commercial terms, and mitigate supply risks through to contract sign off and successful handover to business owners to manage the supplier relationship.
  • Develop Board packs to support supplier recommendations to senior business leaders.
  • Support Supplier Relationship Management in the classification of new suppliers to determine the most appropriate SRM treatment/due diligence frequency.
  • Ensure category and project data (savings, pipeline, milestones, risks, issues) is accurate and reflective of reality.
Requirements:
  • Strong experience in strategic sourcing/procurement.
  • Experience worked within an IT category.
  • Professional Services Category experience.
  • Proven cost reduction identification and conversation with third-party suppliers.
  • Strong leadership skills and ability to influence demanding stakeholders.
  • Strong commercial acumen.
  • University degree or equivalent (e.g., CIPS).
Benefits:

Canada Life Limited offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including a generous pension and bonus scheme, income protection, private medical insurance, and life assurance. We also offer regular personal and professional development opportunities.

How We Work:

Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers, and community, and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others. Every day, we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together, and find a way forward.

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