This role sits within the Indirect Procurement Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution.
As a Senior Procurement Manager in Commercial, you will bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area.
Using your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise in a specific category or spend areas and procurement overall, you will proactively identify and drive strategies and approaches for managing and sourcing third party spend requirements.
You will collaborate with internal procurement (such as Customer Excellence, Insights, Analytics, Contracting, etc.) and business stakeholders to build and implement comprehensive category sourcing and spend management strategies that are aligned to business needs and functional objectives.
You develop content and automation, translating sourcing strategy into content and automated buying channels guidelines, best practices and communication materials that improve business adoption, satisfaction, and overall efficiency.

You hold a university degree, preferably in business or a related discipline.
7+ years of procurement experience in strategic sourcing, global category management, complex procurement contracting, and operational category efficiency projects.
Solid leadership experience, extensive procurement experience and deep specific category knowledge in one or more categories.
Strong experience in procurement systems and processes.
Deep knowledge and experience in the Marketing & Sales commodity area and knowledge of adjacent commodities (in particular Media, Creative and Digital).
Skills in project management.
Fluent in English to a Business level.

Senior Procurement Manager – Commercial

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