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Senior Supplier Engagement Manager

Your new company
A Centralised Government department made up of 3500 employees providing vital HR services , in respect of people, policies processes and recruitment.

Your new role
To work within the Supplier Engagement team is to help and support with sourcing and contract management, of commercial vehicles for a number of areas including: Recruitment service, Graduate and Apprentice schemes, Digital and analysis, and training along with some other key areas.

The main function and areas to work and focus include:

  • Aligning commercial and procurement strategy to support the HR function
  • Working with commercial experts to deliver procurement solutions
  • Working closely with 3rd Party stakeholders to define and shape 3rd party solutions
  • Contract and performance management
  • Relationship management
  • Support and develop delivery of commercial strategy
  • To provide expert guidance and advice to Senior Managers and stakeholder


What you'll need to succeed

  • You should have exceptional stakeholder management skills to deliver an exciting and varying agenda both internally and externally.
  • Have experiencing of working across multiple departments, and professions, and supporting professional colleagues.
  • Excellent communication skills in order to manage team objectives, plans and activities to deliver solutions and delivery of the function
  • Strong leadership and influencing skills
  • Expert commercial knowledge
  • Procurement/Contract management and stakeholder management skills
  • Direct management of team members
  • Hands on approach to work, lead by example attitude
  • Service and customer focused centric
  • Experience of driving supplier performance, through effective management of contracts
  • Experienced in identifying and effectively managing poor performance and escalate effectively where appropriate
  • Managing a range of high and live prioritise , able to deliver at pace.
  • Awareness of commercial best practice
  • Procurement ad commercial life cycle knowledge and experience
  • Highly analytical with excellent IT skills
  • MCIPS preferred


What you'll get in return
37 hour working week
Flexi time
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Government pension scheme
Flexible working (Working from home 1 day per week)
Laptop and Phone

What you need to do now
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