Sourcing Manager - Retail & Business Operations

This is an exciting opportunity for a high energy Retail & Business Operations Sourcing Manager to join our growing procurement team to help design and implement the sustainable procurement strategy and processes for the National Lottery for the next 10 years, in line with Allwyn’s Social Value framework, as we start to build relationships with new and existing National Lottery suppliers.

Using your procurement experience, and leveraging your knowledge, you will work directly with the Retail & Business Operations team at all levels of Allwyn. In this role, you will be expected to develop & deliver an effective procurement strategy and conduct activities such as RFPs, effective negotiations of commercials & agreements, and ongoing vendor management to deliver continuous savings, performance & process improvement for the above categories.

• Act as a trusted adviser, and subject matter expert, leading Retail & Business Operations sourcing and procurement projects. These projects often involve working across multiple products.
• Lead and own a full range of projects from transactional to complex, spanning all types of categories across Allwyn.
• For individual procurement projects build, communicate, and implement work plans and timelines. Identify the required supporting efforts, dependencies, or barriers, as well as track and report on progress/issues.
• Deliver sustainable value by leading negotiations with vendors on the scope of work, commercials & contract, which will involve working with legal, finance, tax and other internal departments,
• Be a strategic partner to Retail & Business Operations throughout the sourcing process,
• Build and maintain vendor relationships to maximize value and to deliver a best-in-class supply chain across multiple spend categories,
• Partner with Retail & Business Operations team to build, moderate to complex service requirements and scope, assist with identifying vendors, manage the entire RFx process, provide vendor evaluation framework and recommendations on vendor selection.

The ideal candidate will be able to manage multiple time sensitive requests, effectively engage stakeholders within all levels of management, including executive leadership and efficiently ensure the sustainable sourcing process is completed consistently with Allwyn UK policies and goals.

2Classification: INTERNAL This includes driving procurement compliance, managing commercial risk, delivering fair costs for the organization, negotiating regional agreements including prices and terms, and integrating sustainability within the supply chain.

The jobholder should be able to embrace ambiguity, meanwhile generating close collaboration across teams and constantly evolving sustainable procurement approaches which fully address procurement challenges and solve complex business problems.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand and capture the detailed requirements of each business objective, requiring third party contracting,
• Drafting supply and service schedules for inclusion in the RFP and contracts,
• Source third parties who can meet the requirements, and conduct initial research to create a short list, • Run the RFP process, co-ordinating supplier pitches, with the right internal stakeholders,
• Follow process outlines by procurement and supply procurement team with the relevant data and detail to meet internal governance requirements,
• Work cross functionally to ensure all relevant stakeholders feed in requirements and are part of the selection,
• Understand the process to extend or novate a contract,
• Work to award and appoint new suppliers,
• Contract negotiations and drafting of commercial terms alongside Legal,
• You will also support the Social Value team in maintaining a positive and collaborative culture across the wider team,
• Continually assess and promote sustainable and responsible procurement, in line with Allwyn’s Social Value framework, including social, cultural and diversity values in the organisation and throughout the supply chain.

• Experience in indirect and direct procurement environments in a buyer or category management role
• Enthusiasm in sharing expertise and experience with other within your own discipline
• Previous experience in selecting, onboarding, and managing suppliers
• Experience of drafting, negotiating, and managing supplier agreements within FM, Operations, Retail categories,
• Experience of working with the Multiple Retailers (Tesco, Sainsbury etc) and knowledge of the challenges these bring,
• Understanding sustainable procurement best practices and how to embed this into the sourcing process
• Excellent relationship management skills, as well as the ability to work collaboratively with senior management,
• Extremely customer-focused, taking the time to understand the needs of the business,
• Strong ability to influence others with excellent written and verbal communication skills,
• Self-motivated, collaborative and a flexible working approach, as well as being open to adopting categories outside of outlined remit should the opportunity arise,
• Basic understanding of sustainable procurement best practices and how to embed this into the sourcing process

• 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays) 

• Annual bonus scheme 

• 2 x Life Days 

• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance 

• Pension: we’ll match your contribution up to 8.5% 

• Single Private Health Cover 

• £500 Wellness Allowance 

• Income Protection 

• Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity) 

• Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes