Supplier Manager

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Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary - up to £60,000 + annual bonus & benefits

Location - Glasgow, Edinburgh or Newcastle, Permanent

Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh and Glasgow offices 2 days per week for this position.

Closing Date - Applications 9 th July at 5pm

A chance to thrive

We're looking for a Supplier Manager to join our Shared Services team at Tesco Bank.

You'll ensure a full understanding of the services provided to your allocated business area (s) by Strategic suppliers, engaging relevant internal stakeholders and report on performance, service, and risk exposures.

What you'll be doing

• Manage key internal client and customer relationships. Ensure business objectives and supplier objectives remain aligned and within rules of business conduct. Governing the relationship for maximum value, including review meetings
• Identify Trends, summarise findings and give feedback on existing contract performance, provide as input to new contract processes to negotiations/renegotiations.
• Deliver required outcomes by managing day-to-day relationships with contract service providers while working within a contract management plan, in line with regulatory supplier compliance management framework.
• Work with Procurement & Legal to review, maintain and re-negotiate the necessary legal contracts.
• Ensure that business activities within your area of responsibility comply with relevant external regulatory and voluntary codes and with internal policies and procedures.
• Identify and evaluate risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated, escalating where appropriate.
• Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement activities to develop effective working relationships and to ensure that stakeholder needs, and concerns are identified and me.

We need you to have

• Deep understanding of the Procurement & Supplier Management Policy and Framework.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience of managing suppliers in a large, regulated, or controlled environment.
• Excellent communication & presentation skills.
• Experience of balancing priorities in a fast paced, consistently changing environment to meet tight deadlines.
• Experience in a role within a supplier management environment in a large, regulated or controlled environment.
• Knowledge of FCA/PRA regulations relating to outsourcing and supplier activity.
• Risk, Conduct and Compliance Management.
• Excellent relationship management and influencing skills at all levels.
• Understanding of supplier commercial contracts.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Experience of Agile Ways of Working.
• Managing Suppliers as part of acquisition and divestment.

We don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What's in it for you

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we'll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

Everyone's welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank. We ' re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

Role Alignment

Following the announcement regarding Tesco's strategic partnership with Barclays, this role will support our banking business and will transfer to Barclay's UK towards the end of 2024, subject to regulatory approval. Please note, the transfer date may change.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!

Why Tesco Bank?

We're also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That's why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.

It's important to us that we make sure you're supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.

All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers' and colleagues' everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.