Procurement Category Lead

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About the role

HL is at an exciting time of its evolution as the UK's leading wealth provider, the business has committed a significant investment in transforming the business and digital platforms, operational efficiency and ultimately improving the client journeys and offerings. As one of two Category Leads at Hargreaves Lansdown, you will lead the Procurement team on a 12-month fixed-term maternity cover contract, overseeing the full supplier lifecycle—from selection and negotiation through contracting and ongoing management. You will own the strategy and act as the primary point of contact for all procurement activities within your business area.

What you'll be doing

As one of two Category Leads at Hargreaves Lansdown, you will lead the Procurement team and oversee the full supplier lifecycle—from selection and negotiation through contracting and ongoing management. You will own the strategy and act as the primary point of contact for all procurement activities within your business area, partnering with the Chief Technology Officer to accelerate transformation across the business. A key part of the role is to deliver the sustainable savings target for the financial year, managing the risk, performance and governance for suppliers, ensuring that all activities align to our ESG plan.

Category Management – drive the creation and maintain the category plan aligned with the business and technology roadmaps/strategy to drive commercial value, ensuring resilience, risk, and timelines for service delivery.

Sourcing - building on the category plans, create and execute the sourcing strategy, lead on end-to-end sourcing activity; including market assessments, complex supplier negotiations and implement contract agreements. This role will negotiate the contract and support onboarding the supplier through a robust due diligence process to ensure the supplier meets the HL standards and policies as well as delivering commercial value, ensuring the savings targets for P&L and strategic spend are met.

Supplier Management – for all suppliers ensure there are robust governance programmes in place to manage the relationship, delivering on contract obligations of both parties. Measuring performance and risk, while ensuring commercial value and governance is delivered throughout the contract lifecycle.

Cross Function Lead –the role is responsible for leading and setting the standards for regulatory matters and procurement processes across the team in agreement with other leads and the Group Head of Procurement. Ensuring processes are documented, published, and communicated within procurement and across the business.

Support the Group Head of Procurement to drive the transformation of the Procurement team, improving efficiency and effectiveness within the team and across the whole HL business.

About you

To succeed in this role, you will ideally hold the following knowledge and experience:

• Creating and leading a Procurement category team with significant technology elements and in a business that is transforming to adopt digital technologies at pace, establishing trust with stakeholders and team alike to establish credibility and drive costs savings, supplier resilience and deliver supplier governance to mitigate risk and deliver performance
• Working across technology and operations business categories, with knowledge and credibility with various technologies, innovative by nature, inquisitive with the ability to confidently challenge and influence stakeholders.
• Excellent negotiation and problem-solving skills with experience in leading high value, complex negotiations, including outsourcing and offshoring activities.
• Understanding of the regulatory landscape in a Financial Services environment
• Working within EBA Guidelines on Outsourcing Good data analytics skills with the ability to understand financial, economic, risk and contractual data and to consolidate into easy-to-read documents and presentations.

Interview process

This interview process will incorporate competency-based questions including an assessment of your technical knowledge and transferable skills.

Working Schedule
We are looking for an experienced Procurement Category Leads to join our team, based in Bristol head office, BS1 5HL. This role is a 12 month FTC, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We offer a hybrid flexible working pattern to enable you the option of working from home and coming into the office (1-2 days per week).
 

Why us?

Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review 
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure 
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**  
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working  
• Enhanced parental leave 
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution 
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)  
• Private medical insurance* 
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care 
• Health screening programme
• - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP 
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions 
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities 
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches 
• Two paid volunteering days per year 

* dependant on role level 

** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year 

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Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.

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