Strategic Sourcing Expert

3 days ago


Knutsford, Cheshire East, United Kingdom Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) Full time
Job Overview

As a Strategic Sourcing Expert at Barclays, you will play a crucial role in optimising and addressing the bank's third-party spend requirements. This position involves collaborating closely with the business to define, develop, and implement approaches for relevant spend categories and requirements, as well as executing strategic sourcing and buying channel development/optimisation.

Key Responsibilities
  • Plan and execute sourcing events, including RFP/RFXs, negotiations to best meet business requirements for value, speed, compliance, risk.
  • Monitor and guide controls and compliance requirements to be met through the category and sourcing cycle from request to contract, including regulatory engagement, controls, audits, data quality.
  • Develop, implement, and operate policies and procedures for sourcing activities aligned to policies, standards, relevant compliance, and regulation.
  • Identify industry trends and developments related to sourcing and category management by attending conferences, participating in training, and conducting market research on techniques and tools.

Assistant Vice President Expectations
  1. To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives, and determination of reward outcomes.
  2. For an individual contributor, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, combining cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
  3. Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of control and governance agenda.
  4. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to work done.
  5. Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.). Complex information could include sensitive information or difficult to communicate because of its content or audience.

At Barclays, we strive to maintain high ethical standards, demonstrated through our Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship values. As an Assistant Vice President, you will also embody the Barclays Mindset – Empower, Challenge, and Drive – which guides our actions and interactions.


We offer an attractive salary range of £75,000 - £110,000 per annum, depending on experience, reflecting the expertise and skills required for this critical role.



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