Senior Sourcing Manager

My public sector client is looking to recruit a senior sourcing manager into their growing team. Working as part of a dedicated team and reporting into the Head of Sourcing, the role will be focused on ensuring that sourcing is a value-adding activity through the development and execution of excellent Sourcing Plans for each project as well as developing and delivering individual sourcing plans that add value.

Duties will include:

• Proactively work to achieve Service Level Agreement KPIs and performance improvement metric targets.
• Responsible for input into procurement project delivery, informing on potential sourcing approaches, ensuring that the project reflects appropriate potential sourcing approaches
• Responsible for providing and receiving highly complex information when dealing with a range of issues from both internal and external stakeholders
• Establish professional relationships with identified stakeholders.
• Work with the Performance and Reporting team to support the development and deployment of streamlined process and communication to enable category management and sourcing to create robust plans and to drive process efficiency improvement.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience in public sector procurement, including strong experience of tendering including high value, complex, open and restricted. You will also need to have previous experience in sourcing roles as well as have excellent stakeholder management experience and be able to analyse data in order to deliver insights.

The role is mainly home based with 1 to 2 days a month in London and the salary being offered is circa £58,000.