Procurement Manager

3 days ago


Marlow, United Kingdom Whistl Full time
Core Responsibilities 
  • Develop comprehensive sourcing strategies for spend categories, considering internal and market risks and opportunities and aligning with business objectives.
  • Identify long-term savings opportunities through strategy creation, exploring all potential value levers.
  • Create compelling business cases for change in collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Contribute to developing education, communication, and engagement plans for end-users, business units, and functional teams.
  • Act as the commercial expert in the relevant spend categories.

Benefits Delivery:

  • Deliver identified benefits through effective strategy execution and category stakeholder engagement, focusing on risk management, quality, service, cost, and innovation.
  • Ensure financial benefits are managed in-line with procurement and finance processes, securing agreement on the financial value delivered.
  • Contribute to overall procurement benefit targets.

External Supplier Relationships

  • Build strategic relationships with key suppliers at a senior level, leveraging the Business Review Meeting process.
  • Negotiate, create, execute, and manage effective contracts with suppliers to maximise opportunities and minimise risks.
  • Implement robust performance management processes for category spend suppliers, ensuring performance measurement.
  • Develop Operational Excellence strategies for key suppliers to drive improvement against KPIs.
  • Build collaborative relationships with suppliers to position Whistl as a preferred customer for innovation and minimise disruption.
  • Contribute to supply chain transformation for cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practices, and KPIs.
  • Identify and manage significant supply chain risks, ensuring appropriate mitigation plans and communication within impacted business units, procurement, and the supply base.

We welcome applications from candidates with any of the following skills or attributes: procurement, sourcing, supplier, strategy, Finance, eRFx, eAuctions, Spend Analytics, performance data, and supply chain.

Benefits
  • Enhanced annual leave entitlement, starting at 31 days 
  • Access to our prestige Benefits and Rewards Portal 
  • Long service rewards, both financial and leave-based
  • Health cash plan
  • Life Assurance Scheme
  • Private medical insurance 
  • Car allowance 
  • Career development opportunities
  • Access to a well-established Employee Assistance Programme

And other excellent benefits you'd expect from a market leader.

Additional Information

This Procurement Manager role will involve travel to our other sites and off-site meetings. You will need to hold a valid driving licence.


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