JOB TITLE:, GCOO Supplier Management Team
SALARY: £TBC day rate (dependent on experience & location).
LOCATIONS: Bristol / Birmingham / Edinburgh / Halifax
HOURS: Full-Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About This Opportunity
In the Group Chief Operating Office (GCOO) our Supplier Managers make the difference every day and are fundamental in executing our strategy and delivering upon our purpose. By building strong and long-lasting relationships with suppliers, we’re enabling the Group to stay ahead of the competition and better serve its customers. We have a real passion for what we do and are growing and significantly investing in our team driving to be the leading supplier management team in the Group.
GCOO Supplier Management manages the relationships with Group wide technology suppliers, who are part of the Group’s wider strategy and delivery model. Our close relationships and understanding of the importance of these partnerships to their wider strategic goals help us drive performance and delivery aligned to the contractual requirements. These relationships are critical in delivering resilient and innovative services and solutions to our customers.
We’re looking for a highly motivated individual, who can develop and manage a portfolio of Suppliers, who can work in partnerships both with external providers and internal senior stakeholders to ensure services are resilient, are provided in line with our policies and contract and business expectations.
About the role:
Specific activities which you’ll be responsible for include things like:
*You will build collaborative relationships with senior internal and external partners
*Working in collaboration with the business areas, you will ensure your suppliers deliver in line with expectations and drive incremental value and deliver competitive advantage in line with strategic and operational objectives.
*Responsible for the active management of suppliers and apply the appropriate level of Treatment Standards.
*By utilising data to identify trends, deliver continuous improvements to maximise our value and minimise risk in our supply chain.
*Act as a source of expertise with your suppliers, providing professional advice to key partners and colleagues.
Using your relationship management skills, you’ll balance holding our supply partners to account for delivering the key services we expect whilst working in partnership to identify continuous additional value. This role reports directly into the Senior Supplier Manager and is part of an established team of supplier managers.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
*Delivering results with accountability
*Collaboration and Stakeholder Management
*Communication with impact
*Influencing
*Risk Management
*Business Insights
*Managing ambiguity and change
*Judgement and decision making
*Demonstrating self-awareness and growth mindset
And any experience of this would be useful:
*Experience of working with suppliers/3rd Parties
*Experience of Sourcing
*An understanding and awareness of Cyber, operational resilience, data privacy, technology, and cloud policies

Your motivation, behaviours and your drive to make a difference are more important to us than specific experience within Supplier Management. You’ll be curious, bringing new ideas and sharing experience and passionate about the impact we can make.

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