Procurement Category Manager - Marketing

About the opportunity:

Grow globally with an award-winning strategic procurement team. Partner with senior stakeholders, take on bigger budgets, strengthen your Marketing Category expertise and extend your corporate Procurement prowess to the next level.

The mission of Corporate Procurement is to maximise the value and minimise the risk of spend with third party suppliers. At Sony Europe, we strive harder than most to deliver: our Procurement philosophy is strategic, commercial, fact-based and driven relentlessly to continuously improve.

We’re a highly ambitious team and genuine centre of excellence, growing rapidly and fast becoming global in our horizons.

We want your vision, influence, business sense and strategic expertise steering our Marketing Procurement category onto the global stage. In this highly visible role, you’ll take full ownership of sourcing strategies that directly support top management decisions and deliver on the bottom line.

You will:

• Develop, plan and implement strategic pan-European Procurement activities

• Become a recognised subject matter expert for the Marketing category; developing, delivering and implementing the sourcing strategy with a flawless grasp of cost structures, trends and cost drivers

• Initiate and maintain successful working relationships with key stakeholders throughout the business at all levels

• Drive change; challenge existing sourcing decisions; coordinate supplier development strategies; always prove potential for improvement

• Build strategic relationships with key suppliers

• Be responsible for the management and delivery of end to end activities

• Effectively identify and manage risk throughout the end to end supply chain

• Negotiate the best overall commercial arrangements with suppliers selected through fact-based methods, contribute significantly to the overall performance, savings and profitability of Sony Europe

• Ensure and support the business to achieving compliance with Procurement policies and managing the risk profile of suppliers

You will have:

• Excellent stakeholder / supplier management skills, equally focused on value for money, service quality and positive strategic outcomes

• Highly numerate and logical – able to make and articulate data-driven decisions

• Procurement Category management experience ideally, and Marketing experience desirable

• Highly driven, naturally inquisitive and willing to work internationally

• The ability to think creatively, see the bigger picture, instigate and manage innovation and change

• Proven negotiation skills with strong commercial acumen

• Ideally MCIPS qualified (or working towards)

• English proficiency (written and oral), other European languages are desirable

What you can expect from us:

At Sony, we value our people, so on top of a competitive salary, bonus scheme and excellent benefits including discounts on Sony products, you will be supported with your own career development, have access to an extensive range of Learning & Development courses, and some incredible internal mobility opportunities.

Based at the Weybridge HQ, you will enjoy a modern and diverse working environment. We have an onsite canteen, cafe and gym. We also have parking available on site, or if you will use public transport there shuttle bus service that runs regularly between Weybridge train station and the Sony office at peak times.

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We recognize that each and every one of us is original and different. Diversity and inclusion are in our DNA, they drive innovation. We empower our people to achieve one goal: to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology.