Commercial Manager - Procurement

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Procurement

• Identify / implement best practices of procurement and vendor management
• Partner with the business and functional leadership to understand short, medium and long-term category / commercial strategy and the wider M&G Strategy.
• Conduct spend data analysis, opportunity identification and validation by working closely with stakeholders.
• Formulate and execute of local or alternate procurement and negotiation strategies and align with Procurement leadership and business counterparts
• Drive commercial excellence through a competitive tendering process and drive commercial management with the firm’s key vendors
• Execute end-to-end procurement process via execution of RFx. Facilitate adoption of eSourcing Tool (Oracle)
• Drive and conduct cost negotiations (including spot negotiations on day-to-day purchases of products / services or any other procurement activities related to infrastructure, facilities, IT, HR etc.)
• Conduct market research for cost and scope benchmarking related to requests on hand.
• Ensure appropriate contract structures, pricing models, vendor incentive models, service level agreements / KPIs, performance indicators and cost models are applied consistently across vendors
• Partner with internal and external legal counsel to ensure proper forms of agreement are utilized, contractor conformance with the terms and conditions of the agreements, and refinement of agreements as required.
• Drive execution & repository of finalized & executed agreements & supporting documentation in CLM (Oracle)
• Assist in identification, assessment and mitigation of vendor risk.
• Ensure appropriate contract structures / types, pricing models, vendor incentive models, service level agreements, performance indicators and cost models are applied consistently across vendors.
• Drive and track commercial value via savings (cost reduction, cost avoidance and working capital) and added value generation.
• Create & drive effective metrics and data to measure the value delivered through commercial negotiations.
• Support new vendor identification, development and inventory management as needed

Operations

Team / People Management

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G Global Services, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.