Procurement Lead - Indirects

Job Title: Procurement Lead - Indirects

Location: London, Hybrid Working Model

Application Deadline: Sunday 19th January 2024

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About the Role

We are hiring for a Procurement Lead Indirects at Springer Nature.

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering strategic and tactical initiatives across a broad range of Indirect category areas including IT, HR, Marketing & Professional Services, negotiating key contracts and running end to end sourcing projects.

This is a fantastic chance for an aspiring Procurement professional with an affinity for dealmaking to develop a strong skillset and build capability in a fast-moving environment across a variety of spend categories. You will have the opportunity to learn and develop at the same time as delivering substantial value in a growing global business.

This role can be in our Kings Cross London offices on a hybrid working model.

Role Responsibilities:

• Exploring, researching and understanding supply markets relating to specific requirements/sub-categories of spend and identifying alternatives to generate and deliver the benefits of increased competitive leverage
  
• Working closely with internal stakeholders/budget holders and functional business owners to determine sourcing strategies relating to both new requirements and renewals/extensions of existing contracts.
  
• Exploring opportunities for collaboration/partnership, specification challenge and demand management in support of SN's strategic objectives, particularly relating to software tools and professional services.
  
• Supporting the implementation and roll-out of procurement tools/systems and delivering the benefits of spend transparency and efficiency across Indirect Procurement.
  

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

Essential

• Degree or equivalent professional qualification
  
• Demonstrable experience negotiating with supply partners to secure competitive proposals that benchmark well against market indices
  
• Experience of indirect procurement, with a successful track record of sourcing goods, services and software solutions
  
• Spend analysis & management
  
• Supplier selection and contracting
  
• Strong business and commercial acumen
  
• Coordination of, and participation in cross-functional teams
  
• Knowledge of e-sourcing & related technology platforms would be an advantage
  
• Interpersonal, communications, stakeholder engagement and rapport-building
  
• Negotiation and value management
  
• Interpretation, preparation, and execution of contractual agreements
  
• Critical thinking and numerical analysis
  
• Business process mapping and optimization
  
• Contract Performance Management
  
• Supply risk management
  
• Appetite and aptitude for working with cross functional teams in a complex, changing environment to identify savings opportunities and deliver value to the organisation
  
• Multi-tasking
  

Desirable

• MCIPS qualification or interest in achieving this.
  
• Knowledge of SAP and Ariba would be a distinct advantage
  

Job Posting End Date:
19-01-2025