Strategic Sourcing Manager

Description:

The Strategic Sourcing Manager is a brand-new role for Haven, providing support and leadership across the business and key spend areas in Haven. This is a hands-on role for an experienced Procurement professional with broad category experience, leveraging both your technical skills and your stakeholder management and engagement skills.

The Strategic Sourcing Manager will develop and deliver strategic sourcing strategies, in line with business strategies in order to deliver maximum value from spend while maintaining service, innovation and quality.

Your Opportunity:

To learn, develop and become an expert in a key area of the business by:

- Working collaboratively with Budget holders across the business to identify opportunities to create additional value

- Working with stakeholders to determine the business need / specification and develop appropriate sourcing strategies to maximise value

- Developing and owning Haven’s Strategic sourcing plans and working with stakeholders to build an ongoing program of sourcing work across the business

- Overseeing the sourcing and contract process – including RFP, Tender, Negotiations, Contracting

- Supporting the Head of Procurement Operations in ensuring high commercial standards are reflected in the Procurement “platform” across Haven.

What we’d like you to bring:

- Broad sourcing knowledge, preferably in Hospitality and Hotel Management settings

- Broad procurement and strategic sourcing experience

- Comprehensive, proactive stakeholder management and engagement skills

- Confident communication and presentation skills

- An in-depth understanding of category management and how to promote the procurement strategy across the business

- Deep experience of negotiation and supplier management, including conducting complex commercial negotiations

- The ability to derive clarity from ambiguity and competing priorities

- A full driving licence, the role will require travel