Your new company
This is a well renowned, global law firm with offices in over 45 locations. With a vision of being a world-class business. To be successful, progressive, amenable and considerate, showing support to all their employees and clients through their principles to unify, prioritising quality and maintaining integrity.Your new role
You will be working closely with the regional leads of the Vendor Management and/or Procurement teams, ensuring a consistent and standardised approach to all processes and policies implemented. You'll be leading with the vision of improving centralised procurement to be faster, more efficient and have an increased element of automation. Working closely with C-suite management is another key responsibility, highlighting areas of improvement, business risk and any performance issues with suppliers. You will also undergo financial management of strategic suppliers, managing indexation / foreign exchange variation, rate card validation and change.
What you'll need to succeed
You will need the ability to build strong, trusting relationships with business partners and suppliers. Having a degree in commercial management or procurement would be beneficial. Having a couple of years' experience of management of multi-million pound outsourced IT supplier relationships would be helpful. Preferably within legal services or professional services organisations. Knowledge of contract law and IT Service Delivery Management (ITIL) would be valuable but not essential. And you will need to be proficient in Microsoft Office suite, in particular data manipulation in Excel and presentation build in PowerPoint.
What you'll get in return
You will have the opportunity to work for a market leader, solidifying and standardising the procurement function through innovation. You will be entitled to a competitive salary that will vary dependent on your experience in relation to the role. You will also be supported with a truly flexible working arrangement allowing you to achieve the work/life balance that works for you.
What you need to do now
Please reply with an up-to-date CV and I will have a look, and we can schedule a call if relevant.
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