Supplier Manager

Supplier Manager

Salary: To £50,000 + 3% Flex Fund, 25 + 8 days Annual leave, 4% matched Pension + Car allowance

Location: Salisbury

Security Clearance: SC clearance needed (It is preferred that you already hold clearance but candidates will be considered if they are eligible for the process)

The Company

Sopra Steria, European leader in digital transformation, provides one of the most comprehensive portfolios of end-to-end service offerings in the market: Consulting, Systems Integration, Software Development and Business Process Services. Sopra Steria is a trusted by leading private and public organisations to deliver successful transformation programmes that address their most complex and critical business challenges.

The day job

We provide project services to support a large and extremely complex Client Portfolio Plan. The project services team, based on this large IT client site, consists primarily of architects, project managers and project management office resources. In a drive to increase the throughput of projects, Sopra Steria is looking increasingly to sub-contract elements of project delivery to third party suppliers. This involves working closely with the Sopra Steria central procurement function. As our Supplier Manager, you will be the key liaison point between the account project management community, the account commercial manager, Sopra Steria central procurement function and third party suppliers, working very closely with the central Procurement Team to ensure alignment to Sopra Steria’s overall supplier and partner strategies

We are seeking experience of:

• Working with the supplier/vendor management space.
• Ability to negotiate on prices and contract terms in order to deliver savings, commercial value & project delivery
• Contracts and contracting process.
• Commercial awareness, including influencing profit margins on deals.
• Procurement’s impact on Client contracts and commercials.
• Member of a recognised professional procurement body (e.g. CIPS)

 Why should you apply?

• Excellent training, you’ll join a company where self-betterment is actively encouraged
• An enviable client list – we work with some of the biggest names out there
• We’re big – really big. With that comes excellent career growth opportunities
• Supportive and collaborative team environment
• Sustainability is really important to us, in fact we are within the top 1% of companies worldwide tackling climate change and managing our emissions

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application.