Contract & Supplier Engagement Manager

Cloister Resourcing Ltd; Brighton; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

This is an exciting and varied delivery role and you will be dealing with 15 corporate suppliers, ensuring projects are managed and delivered successfully. Candidates will be able to demonstrate they have delivered supplier relationship management in a decent sized company at a strategic level. Working in a team of 4 within a larger procurement team of 21, innovative thinkers who are comfortable working across different areas and are able to get involved with things which may not sit in their remit day to day.

As a Contract & Supplier Management Manager you will:

1. Execute Supplier Relationship Management strategy in partnership with executive sponsors, business unit leads and supply chain partners.
2. Drive engagement with suppliers and stakeholders from across the business.
3. Coordinate and facilitate supply chain and stakeholder engagement forums and top to top engagements.
4. Execute supplier surveys, to generate insights to inform opportunities to improve supply chain partner relationships.
5. Identify relationship issues and risks, develop and implement mitigation plans.
6. Develop views of aggregated supply chain performance and use insights to raise the performance bar.

About You:

You will be proficient in Supplier Management with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation. You will have a real passion for SRM, able to evangelise the benefits of a structured SRM approach and you will be able to work with ambiguity, making decisions on incomplete information. You will be delivery focused with a passion to develop own capability. You will be someone who can demonstrate the desire to push the boundaries and seek opportunities to improve ways of working, demonstrating a relentless curiosity. The role operates in a multidisciplinary environment, the successful candidate must be able to demonstrate an aptitude for building and maintaining relationships to become confident and trusted by stakeholders both internal and external.

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