The Opportunity The Strategic Sourcing Manager position is an important role that drives the development and implementation of sourcing strategies ensuring value for money, compliance, balanced risk management and sustainability across the University.
A key partner to senior stakeholders, the role delivers expert advice, aligns sourcing decisions with operational needs, and strengthens supplier relationships to achieve long-term, University-wide benefits.
This position will be responsible for leading and managing complex, high-value procurement activities from conception through to contract, ensuring strategic negotiation and exceptional service delivery.
It will develop and implement global and domestic sourcing strategies that comply with University policies, probity requirements and financial governance.
The role will work closely with Category Managers and identify and engage stakeholders, scope organisational needs, uncover opportunities, prepare documentation and reports, and oversee project performance against agreed milestones.
It will also provide expert commercial and procurement advice, taking ownership of defined areas of spend and delivering procurement outcomes against savings targets.
To be successful in this role you will have postgraduate qualifications or extensive senior experience in procurement, ideally supported by MCIPS accreditation.
You will bring deep expertise in managing high-value or high-risk categories within complex organisations, with a proven ability to deliver end-to-end sourcing strategies, drive change and realise measurable financial benefits.
Your strong consulting, negotiation and stakeholder-management skills will enable you to influence at executive levels, while your analytical and conceptual capability will support innovative, data-driven solutions.
Exceptional communication skills, commercial acumen, and experience across competitive procurement, contract management and lifecycle costing will be essential, along with the ability to prioritise effectively and meet demanding deadlines.
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