Jobs, fresher vacancy - Category Lead - Financial Services • UK

Company: IAG GBS

UK

Job DescriptionPurpose of the role In IAG GBS, every day in is different. And this is also true for Group Procurement. What makes this role special is the opportunity to work with the world's largest payment schemes, acquirers, issuing banks and payment gateways as well as Insurance services providers.You will make an impact in this role by… Lead the procurement categories of Payment Solutions and Insurance across a range of products and services.Working across the operating companies, ensuring the delivery of effective, robust and compliant procurement that delivers the business plan while maximising the Group’s buying power.Lead strategic activities, including category planning, sourcing, risk management and act as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders.Support the Group's Payment Transformation roadmap by providing expertise and market insights.AccountabilitiesResponsibility for developing and implementing a 3-5 year category plan for the given sub-category.Responsibility for developing and implementing local and global sourcing strategies for all external spend related activity.Management of stakeholder relationships in all operating companies, ensuring appropriately robust challenge while delivering the operating companies’ business plans.Manage supplier risk to protect the operating companies and the Group from financial, operational and reputational damage.Provide commercial innovation to internal stakeholders through interaction with the supply base.Work with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to resolve commercial and contractual disputes; in particular suppliers with high complexity and/or high spend.Support operating companies tier 1 (high strategic/high risk/high spend) projects. Work with strategic suppliers to grow and develop supplier markets.Through liaison with the Procurement Operations Centre and operating company stakeholders, ensure supplier performance management is robust, effective and compliant.Work alongside business areas to identify, challenge, harmonise and simplify specifications and processes across the operating companies to ensure that Group buying power is maximised.Ensure that all procurement activity is carried out in line with Group and operating company governance principles.Develop effective working relations with key interfaces across the Group and operating companies including line, finance, legal and other stakeholders.Take active role in cross-departmental strategic and leadership activities.Key Relationships/InterfacesBusiness leaders in each of the operating companies.Finance.Commercial