Group Procurement Manager

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Company Description

Evelyn Partners is the UK's leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, with over 186 years of experience in helping generations of people and businesses to thrive. We offer an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.

We provide an award-winning service for our clients by employing the best people. Join us on our mission to place the power of good advice into more hands because we believe that everyone deserves access to good advice, regardless of where they're at in their financial journey.

An exceptional track record of growth and innovation is driven by our core values of: Personal, offering advice based on a true understanding of what matters to our clients; Partnership, working with our clients in a joined-up, collaborative way; and Performance, demonstrating a breadth and depth of advice expertise to deliver first-class results.

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Job Description

In this role, you'll be working closely with the Senior Group Procurement Manager on all aspects of the procurement life cycle and leading on Property & Facilities sub-categories. The role necessitates collaborative working across the Procurement and Facilities teams to ensure all third-party engagements enhance commercial and operational value to the business and its clients. The role is responsible for negotiating commercial deals with suppliers with the aim to reduce cost and improve service delivery.

The ideal candidate will have experience of working within a fast-paced, dynamic procurement team and with a can-do attitude to see things through to completion. Actively manage supplier risk and performance to ensure continuity. The candidate will also be responsible for developing supplier relationships to ensure Evelyn Partners is at the forefront of innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Acting as the first point of contact for property and facilities procurement queries and providing procurement advice
• Work as a Business Partner with key stakeholders across the Group
• Ensuring companywide procurement requirements and contract management solutions for allocated categories are managed effectively.
• Support the Senior Group Procurement Manager in high-value and complex projects.
• Deputise for the Senior Group Procurement Manager, as necessary, in relevant meetings and working groups.
• Work collaboratively with the Facilities Business Manager to identify savings.
• Manage your Procurement Pipeline and Tracker to see projects through to completion.
• Manage contract repository.
• Conduct commercial and contract negotiations and implement appropriate tactics to achieve favorable outcomes.
• Owning the cradle-to-grave procurement process including ITT/RFPs, RFIs, RFQs
• Develop relationships with existing suppliers to reduce costs or provide an enhanced service whilst delivering innovation, sustainability, and benefit to the business.
• Ensuring all procurement activities undertaken are aligned with internal Procurement Policy & Procedures
• Build strong relationships and collaborate with other teams such as Legal, Data Protection and Information Security to address and mitigate third-party risks.
• Ensure all contracts meet Group policy, regulatory and industry standards.

Key Skills and Experience

• Proven experience within indirect procurement
• Experience in end-to-end strategic procurement, specifically property and facilities categories, with exposure to other specialist categories such as IT and Marketing
• Strong knowledge of property lease and facilities contracts as well as re-location projects
• Merger & Acquisition experience desirable
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment, ideally having come from a Financial Services background, however other background will also be considered
• The ability to influence and win over stakeholders
• Experience in environment related improvements in relation to ESG
• Experience in drafting and interpreting of contracts and clauses is essential
• Strong Commercial Negotiation skills
• Strong Supplier Relationship Management experience
• Sound understanding of Procurement category management
• Creating and managing complex tender and benchmarking exercises
• Leveraging eSourcing platform to run, manage and report on tendering exercises
• Able to create appropriate commercial models to suit requirements in the category
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft MS Excel and other MS Office applications
• Commercial awareness and acute business acumen are essential
• Ability to analyse data to inform effective decision making
• Ability to prioritise workload to meet deadlines
• Attention to detail and good problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated with high energy to drive for results and meet deadlines
• Have a dynamic approach to your work, being flexible, professional, and diligent under pressure

Qualifications

Key Skills and Experience

• Proven experience within indirect procurement
• Experience in end-to-end strategic procurement, specifically property and facilities categories, with exposure to other specialist categories such as IT and Marketing
• Strong knowledge of property lease and facilities contracts as well as re-location projects
• Merger & Acquisition experience desirable
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment, ideally having come from a Financial Services background, however other background will also be considered
• The ability to influence and win over stakeholders
• Experience in environment related improvements in relation to ESG
• Experience in drafting and interpreting of contracts and clauses is essential
• Strong Commercial Negotiation skills
• Strong Supplier Relationship Management experience
• Sound understanding of Procurement category management
• Creating and managing complex tender and benchmarking exercises
• Leveraging eSourcing platform to run, manage and report on tendering exercises
• Able to create appropriate commercial models to suit requirements in the category
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft MS Excel and other MS Office applications
• Commercial awareness and acute business acumen are essential
• Ability to analyse data to inform effective decision making
• Ability to prioritise workload to meet deadlines
• Attention to detail and good problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated with high energy to drive for results and meet deadlines
• Have a dynamic approach to your work, being flexible, professional, and diligent under pressure

Professional Qualifications and Education

• Ideally educated to degree level
• MCIPS Qualified or working towards the qualification
• Prince2/APM (desirable)

Key Competencies

• Excellent communicator with internal and external stakeholders
• Able to display initiative, confidence and professionalism in all dealings
• Self-starter with a proven ability to take initiative, ownership and possess a strong work ethic
• Proven ability to manage tasks with competing priorities and deadlines, independently determining order of priority and self-initiating other value-added tasks with a can-do attitude able to assist with a range of issues
• Teamwork, leadership skills and people management
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

Additional Information

As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners, you will have access to benefits that include:

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependant)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At Evelyn Partners we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we're delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workspace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.